We are pleased to announce that the EuroQol Research Foundation’s Annual Report for the financial year 2024/25 is now available. Please visit the EuroQol website to access the full report This report highlights the Foundation’s activities and achievements over the past year, a period marked by key advances in implementing the Strategic Plan 2024–2028.  Major…

As the Science Team continues to grow, we are excited to announce a new departmental structure designed to better support the expanding scope and complexity of our work. Going forward, the Science Department will be organized into two dedicated sub-teams: The Scientific Team, focused on advancing high-quality research and driving scientific innovation The Community Support…

Please be informed that, effective 1 August 2025, the EuroQol Office will discontinue offering the Proxy2 as a separate mode of administration (MOA). The Proxy2 is designed for use by a caregiver (the proxy) who knows the respondent well and who rates how they believe the respondent would rate their own health, if the respondent…

We’re excited to share a record number of research submissions this year: 📝 104 proposals received for the 19th RFP (up 55% from last year) 📚 134 abstracts submitted for the 42nd Plenary (up 23% from last year) Thank you to all who submitted their work!

Over the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, the EuroQol Research Foundation offered study-specific licenses free of charge to commercial users wishing to use EQ-5D instruments in studies aimed at testing COVID-19 treatments or diagnostic tools. During this period, numerous commercial organisations undertook COVID-19 related research around the world using EQ-5D instruments – with EuroQol…

Launched as an approved EuroQol Group instrument today, the EQ-5D-Y-5L is a new generic measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for use with children and adolescents. The EQ-5D-Y-5L covers the same five dimensions of health in its descriptive system questionnaire as the EQ-5D-Y-3L (formerly EQ-5D-Y), but has five levels of response in each dimension…

An updated EQ-5D-Y-3L User Guide is now available on the EuroQol website.  Changes include: renaming the EQ-5D-Y to the EQ-5D-Y-3L ahead of the launch of a new version of a new EQ-5D youth instrument during 2024 (EQ-5D-Y-5L, which provides five response levels of severity to questions in the descriptive system); revisions to clarify recommended age…

The EuroQol Office introduced the EuroQol Experimental Instrument Registration Form on the EuroQol website on the 1st of June to streamline all incoming requests for the use of Experimental versions. The registration form applies to requests to use the EQ-HWB, EQ-HWB-9, EQ-TIPS and EQ-5D-Y-5L which are not publicly available yet and are only shared with…

Please be advised that there are updates to the translation request process: Please find more information regarding the updates here.

In 2024, four new members have joined the EuroQol Group Association. Congratulations! Rachel Tan Hannah Penton Tianxin Pan Edward Webb