In this podcast, Caroline Whyte spoke with Roisin Markham and Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann about their recommendations on revising the Leaving Certificate Economic curriculum. Roisin is the founder and network steward of the Irish Doughnut Economics Network, and the co-founder and director of BDT Consultancy. Jennifer worked for many years as a secondary school economics and social…
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Professor Lindsay McLaren, who is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada, where her research and teaching focus on the social determinants and political economy of health. Topics covered included the fact that good health actually has far less to…
As World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week #WAAW kicks off, it’s worth asking: how do we make the invisible threat of #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) visible — and actionable? At the European Health Futures Forum (EHFF), our AMR Working Group believes that tackling AMR isn’t only about science and policy. It’s also about people, creativity and new digital…
November 20th 17.00-18.30 UTC For many years it’s been recognised that the current growth economy model leads to increased health inequality, with adverse effects on the social determinants of health. One of the underpinning principles of the Wellbeing economy is social justice. In the third of the webinars co-curated by WEALL Global and EHFF to…
Transforming Healthcare Through 3H+: A Call for Collaboration The European Health Futures Forum (EHFF) has developed and tested an innovative approach—3H+—to catalyze transformational change in healthcare systems across Europe. This method responds to the long-recognized crisis in healthcare: a fragmented, reactive, and unsustainable system increasingly misaligned with people’s needs, environmental realities, and economic pressures. At…
WEAll Health Working Group’s second webinar on June 24th, 2025 It was a detailed and thought provoking discussion that highlighted the interconnectedness of health and planetary health, drawing parallels to systems thinking in healthcare. David Somekh co-chairs the WEAll Health Working Group on behalf of EHFF. Big thanks to our incredible speakers: Many powerful points were addressed…
June 24th 2025 – 16:00 – 17:30 GMT Register here Guest speakers Courtney Howard, an Emergency Physician in Yellowknives Dene Territory in Canada’s subarctic, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, and a Community Research Fellow in Planetary Health at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Liz Willetts- Team Leader, Editor, and…
How do we use design thinking to transform systems? A great topic for an engaged conversation in the webinar June 5th, 2025 with Daniel Steenstra, Dina von Heimburg, and Mickael Bech as the three experts that shared views on potentials, challenges, and solutions. The Quick recap… The European Health Futures Forum organized a webinar on…
Curious about how planetary health and wellbeing economy are linked? Well, wait no more – hurry and find the new podcast with Caroline Whyte, David Somekh, and Simon Ticehurst on SoundCloud here.
From the editors May you live in interesting times… depending on your point of view this can hold potential as well as problems. For those of us dedicated to transformation, we had hoped for evolution rather than revolution. But few had really anticipated such a direct copy of old strategies of authoritarianism to shape the…