ABOUT THE PROJECT
Welcome to Invest4Health, a Horizon Europe funded project!
We challenge traditional financing methods and transform how health promotion and disease prevention are financed through innovative strategies.
Explore our innovative approaches, including smart capacitating investment, social franchising, and new governance mechanisms with local communities to deliver socially equitable services. Join us on our exciting journey, and let’s view health as an investment rather than just a cost.
NEWS
03 February 2026
Invest4Health at the Radical Health Festival: Rethinking the Financing of Precision Health
At the Radical Health Festival in Helsinki this January, Invest4Health joined policymakers, innovators, civil society leaders and financing actors to advance a shared agenda: rethinking how we finance precision health. Central to this discussion was a...
05 January 2026
A key scientific publication from Invest4Health: Rethinking how we finance prevention
We are proud to announce that a key scientific publication emerging from the Horizon Europe–funded Invest4Health project has been published in the European Journal of Health Economics.The article, Broadening sources of finance for health promotion and...
12 August 2025
I4H Newsletter - Issue 6
Dear Reader,
Invest4Health is a Horizon Europe project aimed at transforming the way we fund health promotion and disease prevention. We argue that treating these efforts as smart investments in people’s long-term well-being, rather than costs,...
04 August 2025
Invest4Health Competence Building Programme - Four new testbeds joining the project
In response to the long-standing problems of reactive healthcare funding, made worse by economic crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ageing populations, I4H offers a new approach: treating health, especially prevention, as a smart, long-term...
04 August 2025
CITIZEN PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH-RELATED DECISIONS - INVEST4HEALTH CITIZEN PATIENT ADVISORY GROUPIS IN ACTION IN INVEST4HEALTH
We have established a Citizen Patient Advisory Group (CPAG) to ensure that public voices are heard. The 11 members were selected through an open call and interviews. The group helps us understand the real-world impact of our project and provides advice...
15 July 2025
West Wales joins European efforts to rethink public health investment,transforming diabetes prevention with Invest4Health
Croeso i Gymru (Welcome to Wales) is a country in the southwest of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to the east and the Irish Sea to the west. Part of the UK, Wales has its own devolved government, the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), responsible for...
29 May 2025
Transdisciplinary Health Economics: A Vision for 2050 and the Role of Invest4Health
Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, a key partner in the Invest4Health (I4H) project representing Bangor University, has published a forward-looking editorial in the Global Health Economics and Sustainability journal. Drawing on her 35-year career, Professor...
21 May 2025
Kicking Off the Next Phase: Invest4Health launches Competence Building Programme with Four New Regional Testbeds
Invest4Health: Rethinking How We Fund Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Invest4Health (I4H) is a Horizon Europe-funded project that brings together 22 partners, including eight regional testbeds, to rethink how we fund health promotion and disease...
21 March 2025
New regions join Invest4Health
Following the closure of our Open Call on March 14, which received seventeen applications, we are excited to select and welcome a new group of regional testbeds to the Invest4Health project.
These regions, chosen from the applications we received, will...
21 March 2025
CITIZEN PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH-RELATED DECISIONS - INVEST4HEALTH CITIZEN PATIENT ADVISORY GROUP
Regarding health promotion and disease prevention, public health professionals and policymakers decide whether to implement or finance an initiative in the best-case scenario or, in some cases, financial departments or less knowledgeable decision-makers...
TEST BEDS
18 December 2025
REGION JÖNKÖPINGS IÄN
Region Jönköpings län (Region Jönköpings län, RJL) is an administrative region in Sweden comprising 13 municipalities and approximately 370,000 inhabitants, making it the sixth-largest region in the country. The region operates under the vision “For a good life in an attractive region” and has a clear ambition to be the best place to grow up, live, and age. Its strategic direction, “Together we meet the future needs of healthcare”, emphasizes a transition towards integrated, community-based care...
18 December 2025
LISBON
The National School of Public Health at NOVA University Lisbon (NSPH NOVA) is a leading institution in public health education, research, and the translation of evidence into policy and practice in Portugal. NSPH NOVA has accumulated extensive knowledge and experience in Social Prescribing (SP), providing technical and scientific support to multiple organizations in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of SP initiatives tailored to local and regional contexts. In parallel,...
13 June 2023
REGION SKÅNE
The testbed region of Skåne is the third most populous region of Sweden and covers an area of
11,303 km2. The capital of the county is the city of Malmö. Skåne is Sweden’s southern gate to the
world. Skåne’s geographical location provides with unique possibilities and facilitates both national and international collaborations and investments that involve actors in a myriad of fields, from traditional industries to research and innovation in areas such as life science, tech, AI, gaming and more. Region...
12 June 2023
WEST WALES
Hywel Dda University Health Board is representing West Wales among the testbeds in the Invest4health project. Hywel Dda University Health Board is one of the seven health boards that make up NHS Wales, the publicly funded National Health Service of Wales. Within Wales healthcare is devolved, meaning that responsibility for managing and delivering healthcare services lies with the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government can make decisions and set policies regarding healthcare in Wales.
12 June 2023
GALICIA
Galicia is a region located in north-west Spain, with autonomous government institutions in areas such as health and education. Geographic concentration is very low, with many sparsely populated rural areas. Population of Galicia is 2.7 million people, and is one of the most aged in Europe, a problem that is gradually worsening, reaching in 2022 an ageing index of 213,54 (214 citizens with more than 65 years for every 100 people with less than 16); within the elderly people, Galicia has a dependency...
12 June 2023
NORTH-RHEIN-WESTPHALIA
The testbed region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the most populous state of Germany, with its capital at Düsseldorf. NRW is situated in the middle western part of Germany and shares borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. As one of 16 German states, it is organized in 5 District Authorities and 53 local public health departments. The region of North Rhine-Westphalia consists of several major cities, including Cologne, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, and Bonn. NRW's central location, well-connected...
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