Bulletin number 1 Introduction from David Somekh, EHFF Network Director It is about 5 months since our last COVID Bulletin. This is partly because there seemed to be a dramatic shift in the progress of the pandemic in Europe and attempts to manage it around the end of the last year. Undoubtedly the two big…
DetailsDr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD, the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute interviews Dr David Somekh Director if EHFF This interview comes to us from Patreon In this interview, I talked with David Somekh, who is leading EHFF, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the health of European citizens, about cultural change, the youth and patient empowerment.…
DetailsHealth Justice and the Environment – the core issues The latest instalment of our podcast series ‘Bridging the Gaps’ begins with an interview by David Somekh of the European Health Futures Forum of Tsvetelina Filipova, who is involved in All Policies for a Healthy Europe, an intersectoral initiative that brings together a diverse group of…
DetailsHealth and the wider ecosystem This week, in the next of our free webinars, Lars Munter of Nordic Health 2030 and David Somekh of EHFF move the focus from the design of health to a view of health in the wider context of its ecosystem: the interaction of factors such as current economic models, environmental issues and…
DetailsBelow is a recording of our latest webinar for the Humanity Rising Global Summit with our partner Nordic Health 2030 and expert panel discussing topics around the subject of “Health by Design” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJEp-zCpAo
DetailsHumanity and health Below is a recording of first of 5 weekly webinars put on by EHFF and Nordic health 2030 on the Humanity Rising platform. Title of the following week’s webinar ‘Healthy by Design’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhsFDAPGIQ
DetailsPitchforks and Arcadia: overcoming fear with a new vision Seán O’Conlaín and Caroline Whyte speak with Mark Garavan, a lecturer in social care at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Mark has a doctorate in the sociology of environmental activism and is the author of the book Compassionate Activism, and he is also a Feasta Director. Topics covered…
DetailsDuring 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
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