EHFF Newsletter Number 6
We published our latest Newsletter on April 10th. Find it HERE
EHFF Newsflash: EHFF embarks on major strategy exercise
Newsflash: EHFF embarks on major strategy exercise with support from Ian Kendrick of H3Uni and SDG Transformations Forum We’ve been acquainted with Ian now for several years and regularly met him at the Metaphorum annual conferences. However, at end 2019 Ian agreed to join the EHFF Community and since then we’ve been working with…
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Third in series of FEASTA/EHFF podcasts
Sean Conlan and Caroline Whyte speak with Dr Evelyn Forget at the University of Manitoba about her research into the health and social effects of a basic income trial that was held in rural Canada in the 1970s. Then we talk to Paul Harnett and Laura Bannister, who are both directors of the World Basic Income, and…
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EHFF holds its AGM and major strategy session
We had planned to meet together in London on Saturday Mar 21st, but the pandemic intervened. We were delighted instead to convene a meeting on Zoom which lasted from 9am to 3.30 pm (with breaks!) which at its peak had 17 attendees, with only one member of the Advisory team too ill to attend (fortunately…
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A position statement from EHFF
EHFF team has been in intensive discussions about our response to the Coronavirus global pandemic (partly also related to the opportunity of our scheduled AGMs, of course held on-line this year (see related news item, which allowed an extended discussion around strategy for 2020)). As the banner on our front page indicates, we’re now geared…
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David Somekh hosts conversation with Richard Turnbull and Henk den Uijl on the ethical issues surrounding the concept of ‘enough is plenty’ (challenging excessive production and excessive consumption and their consequences).
DetailsEHFF Newsflash Berlin RBS seminar revisited
Almost exactly four years ago, in February 2016, with funding from the Robert Bosch Foundation, EHFF convened a group of 32 International stake-holders, from Industry, civil society, academia, the policy world and health professionals, to spend two half days discussing the issues surrounding the apparent lack of end-user engagement inn the development of new eHealth…
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Round-up: some items from the end of last year, now available
Here are reports from three events we attended which we think are of interest, given our Mission: DHACA day no. XVII (Digital Health and Care Alliance) London Nov. 7th. This regular event by our partner organisation tracks developments in digital, especially in the UK. The four presentations we’d highlight are: Prof Dipak Kalra on ‘challenges…
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Work in progress
Over and above our networking, horizon scanning (and Tweets that follow) and major project, CEMPaC (remember – www.Cempac.org) here are our top seven activities for the start of 2020: AP4HE : in November we mentioned that we have become knowledge partners for this ‘All Policies for a healthy Europe’ project (https://healthyeurope.eu/ ). On Jan.16th we…
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A belated Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all our readers!
Granted it’s over a week since Twelfth Night, all we can say is better late than never. We’re all now back in our virtual office and in business – meetings in Brussels, planning for the AGM, the next phase of our large patient empowerment project (CEMPaC), lots of tele-meetings etc.