Lois described the project that she and two colleagues ( Dr Ruth Collins-Nakai and Dr Axel Meisen ) are currently undertaking to think about the future of Canada following the Covid 19 pandemic. They have been meeting weekly since early June, undertaking a Foresight exercise, something Lois and her colleagues have considerable experience with. Their…
DetailsA further position statement from EHFF on the pandemic September 2020 Since our initial, Board-approved statement on April 10, we’ve kept to our promise and produced regular Bulletins, commenting on various aspects of the impact of the pandemic on the overall health ecosystem. We have published one a month, each containing a number of thought…
DetailsIt’s a while since we produced a Newsletter as during the six months since Easter we’ve concentrated on producing Bulletins looking at the impact or possible impact of the pandemic on healthcare systems and the wider society. However, we’ve not been idle on other fronts and this is a catch-up. One of our ideas…
DetailsThe latest Festa / EHFF podcast with Caroline Whyte and Sean Conlan. This podcast features Feasta’s summer intern, Nadia Hansen, interviewing Dundalk-based social worker Dr Washington Marovatsanga on cultural competence, enforced absence, the relationship between power and knowledge production, the problematic history and orientation of social work, and how a Global South philosophy of collectivism could…
Details‘The Wellbeing economy’ In this session the Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), Stewart Wallis talks to David Somekh of EHFF about the origins, work and future plans for their organisation as well as what we understand by the concept of a ‘wellbeing economy’. Hear the full episode here :
DetailsWellbeing Economy Alliance is an EHFF Partner “WEAll is a new global collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals working together to change the economic system to create a wellbeing economy: one that delivers human and ecological wellbeing.” You can read more at https://wellbeingeconomy.org/
DetailsIntroduction from David Somekh EHFF Network Director: We’re publishing this month’s bulletin a bit earlier, because of upcoming holidays. Again, we have four diverse contributions. 1. Dr Dan Alton’s blog from the UK’s NHS Confederation is reprinted with permission and deals with the benefits of implementing the NHS Population Health Management strategy to tackle COVID-19…
Details“Partnership based organisation” “Governments around the world are currently rethinking their approach to the economy and reflecting on their overall goals, and this is triggering many questions about how best to structure organisations, large and small, so as to improve our chances of achieving those goals. This podcast includes interviews with people at an international…
Details“The future of tourism and business travel.” “We interview Manuel Grebenjak of the Stay Grounded network, and Professor James Faulconbridge, head of the Organisation Work and Technology Department at Lancaster University, about the future of tourism and business travel in the wake of Corona virus – bearing in mind the need to urgently reduce travel’s…
DetailsIntroduction from David Somekh EHFF Network Director: For this edition, we again have four diverse contributions.1. Louise Marshall from the UK Health Foundation has kindly agreed for us to re-publish her article about emerging evidence of the relation between health inequalities and COVID. Her message relates to what ought to happen during the ‘recovery phase’ to…
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