Background The current COVID-19 pandemic has put public health and health systems at centre stage on the EU political agenda. While health systems across the EU and the world have been drained throughout the pandemic, lessons to rebuild better, more effective, and...
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...
It was a real privilege to be part of the EPHA representation at the WHO/Europe High-Level Forum on Health in the Well-Being Economy in Copenhagen last week. I often find I do not take enough time from day-to-day pressures to look up and see that my work is part of a...