During 2020 David Somekh on behalf of EHFF chaired the Working Group on the Wellbeing Economy as part of the All Policies for a Healthy Europe (AP4HE) consortium. The policy paper which resulted has just been published and can be accessed here:2021_Economy_Policy Paper. Final (1) David will continue to chair the working group during 2021…
DetailsContinuing the series “Bridging the gaps podcast” we interview Argentinian economist and Wellbeing Economy Alliance member Mariana Mirabile, who has a PhD in development economics and is a partner of Systems Innovation, on the reasons behind her shift in orientation away from a neoclassical approach to economics and towards ecological economics, and the potential for using narratives…
DetailsBiodiversity and health is a topic which very much resonates with the interest both FEASTA and EHFF currently have in the concept of the WellBeing Economy, which links the economy with health, the environment, education and social cohesion in a logical and constructive way. FEASTA and EHFF · Defending nature, supporting health
DetailsEditorial By Dr David Somekh It’s difficult to say anything original about how extraordinary 2020 has been to live through. It remains to be seen what lessons we will learn from the experience of the pandemic and its impact on everyday life, not just on the health of individuals and society in general. There’s a…
DetailsThe latest Feasta / EHFF podcast with Caroline Whyte and David Somekh. This podcast features interviews with three young people in different circumstances, Jonathan working in health policy for a large commercial company in Brussels, Tommy, a graduate currently unemployed in Dublin and Amber, an A level student in Cornwall. They talk about how they’ve…
DetailsEditorial A word from our director Dr David Somekh It’s seven and a half years since we formally set up EHFF although it had been in waiting for three years before that. Although we had an agreed mission, to support transformational change in society, beginning with health but looking at health in a holistic way,…
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 :
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