In May 2023, over 3,000 public health professionals and researchers, policymakers, and students will convene in Rome, Italy, for the 17th World Congress on Public Health. This year’s congress title rightly acknowledges that the World is in turmoil. The climate...
Well-being economy and public health The well-being economy provides a long-term way out of an unprecedented existential crisis, a perfect storm of climate and ecological breakdowns, pandemic and wars, the majority of which are direct products of our current economic...
More than five decades ago, the Club of Rome warned the world that its natural systems would not be able to support the rates of economic and population growth forever and that indeed there are ’Limits to Growth’. Today, the planetary boundaries keep being pushed...
Article by Paul Belcher, EPHA Special Advisor The fresh mountain air of Gastein brought some welcome new thinking and energising discussions on the theme of “A moonshot for a true European Health Union”, but it also highlighted that some key public health topics...
Or can the European Health Union become a place for people, governments and the private sector to support an economy no longer based on GDP growth? Acutely quiet amidst the perfect storm We are facing an unprecedented existential crisis, there is no disagreement...
