I work within the NHS and the Integrated Care Board landscape – for now, although I am about to be made redundant in the latest round of cuts to ICBs and Trusts. My work focuses on system behaviour, organisational dynamics, and the lived experience of collapse stage healthcare. I’m particularly interested in the structural patterns…
I am a healthcare innovator and digital strategy leader with over a decade of international experience in pharma, medtech, and digital health. I combine marketing and products launch strategy experience in large corporations with entrepreneurship, investment, and advisory work to accelerate the adoption and scale-up of impactful healthcare solutions. I currently serve as Global Web…
Ursula Wagner has professional experience providing technical support to migration health programmes across Europe and Central Asia, working in both humanitarian settings and within the humanitarian–development–peace nexus. With a background in medical anthropology and field experience gained through research assignments and previous work with an international medical humanitarian organization, she is particularly interested in improving…
Lisa Lehner is a social and public health researcher, project lead, and expert on healthcare access, delivery, and justice. She currently holds positions as Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, as Medical Ethics Coordinator at the Medical University of Vienna, and as Director for Health Programs at AmberMed, a non-governmental clinic in Vienna providing…
Lisanne Brenkman is a digital changemaker/influencer and entrepreneur. She is passionate about fighting social injustices and stands for promoting women’s rights. After her dad passed away from gastric cancer, she finished her bachelor’s in Medicine in Groningen and started a business that strives to help people struggling with anxiety. She immigrated to Austria to finish…
Anca Toma, an independent EU health expert, has over 20 years of experience in European public affairs, strategic communications, and health policy. She has held leadership roles across civil society and consultancy, most recently as Executive Director of the European Patients’ Forum and Director of the Smoke Free Partnership. During her career, she led…
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Nina Dalkner is a Research Professor and Head of the Cognition Research Lab at the Medical University of Graz. She is a clinical psychologist and health psychologist with a habilitation in theoretical-experimental psychiatry, specializing in cognition and digital mental health. She earned her psychology degree and PhD in natural sciences (Department of Neuropsychology) at…
Essien Uwem Aniefiok is a Pharmacist and Public Health Researcher with a growing expertise in epidemiology and health systems strengthening. She is passionate about improving community health through evidence-based action. She has worked as a Field Officer, Research Assistant and Co-author on several public health projects, contributing to studies on neglected tropical diseases, antimicrobial resistance,…
As a former unpaid carer for her late mother, Maria, who was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in the brain in 2006, Emma is dedicated to amplifying patient and public voices in healthcare. With experience across various sectors, Emma is passionate about staff wellbeing, leadership development, research and innovation, preventative and integrated care, support for…
Tanja has almost 20 years of experience in European policy making covering the areas of environment, finance, military cooperation and health, both inside and around the EU institutions. She is an economist by training and has studied in Cologne and Dublin. Tanja is a German national and also speaks English and French. Tanja’s key drivers…