Let us introduce our team, offering insights into the minds leading at Invest4Health. We’re launching a series of interviews featuring key team members. Join us as we uncover the stories, roles, and unique perspectives that bring the Invest4Health project to life. First, meet Jolanda Van Vliet, our Project Coordinator; Bengt Stavenow, Project Co-Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Common Architecture Reference Group; and Joanna Lane, Co-Chair of the Common Architecture Reference Group. Let’s delve into the personalities behind the...

Social franchising comes into focus as we progress through the complex stages of creating, testing and validating Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI) models. We are developing a comprehensive SCI package for a large-scale showcase. In a strategic move, we employ social franchising as the avenue for widespread replication to support financially our health promotion and disease prevention solutions. Ensuring Long-lasting Impact: Validating SCI Models Across Diverse Regions Commitment to the impact, value, and sustainability of the Invest4Health...

Last week WHO hosted a well-structured and intense workshop in Geneva, Switzerland on making hospitals fit for purpose. The overarching vision is for hospitals to contribute to primary healthcare-oriented health systems. As such, the event is part of a process of re-imagining care. Three main themes were addressed by over 50 participants who shared experience and insights from their work in or related to the six WHO regions: governance and financing, optimising service delivery processes and infrastructure/capital asset solutions. The I4H partner,...

Sweden has embarked on a pioneering journey in public health financing with a strategic initiative led by the Swedish government. The initiative entails the allocation of 10 million kronor annually from 2024 to 2026, aimed at promoting innovative and knowledge-based public health initiatives. The initiative is designed to address critical health challenges effectively.  The primary objective of the Swedish government’s initiative is to stimulate more innovative investment models for social investments, such as social outcome contracts to...

Our upcoming Invest4Health Consortium Meeting is scheduled for October 11th to 13th, 2023, in Aachen, Germany. Consortium meetings are pivotal for any project’s success, including Invest4Health. But why are we looking forward so much to this meeting? On the one hand, this event is significant as it marks the Consortium’s first in-person meeting since our kick-off session in January. On the other hand, our German partner, FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER RATIONALISIERUNG, Institute for Industrial Management (FIR), is hosting this event, which...

We are delighted to announce that Invest4Health Consortium members will host a workshop at the International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Conference, 20-22 Sep 2023, in Vienna. Many governments’ fiscal space and budgetary resources are shrinking, all while demand for public services, including healthcare, is rising sharply. Hospital-focused healthcare models and ‘traditional’ forms of public health investment (e.g. national to local government funding and health insurance) are inadequate. ...

The Invest4Health (I4H) Horizon Europe project was officially launched in January 2023. It aims to challenge traditional financing methods and revolutionize health promotion and disease prevention funding. Our innovative strategies provide a fresh perspective creating value from health as an investment rather than a cost.

Invest4Health Workshop in Skåne Explored Testbed for Early Coordinated Interventions. On June 9th, a pivotal workshop took place in Skåne as part of the Invest4Health project, which aims to revolutionize health promotion and disease prevention financing through innovative investment models.

Invest4Health, our initiative to transform health financing and shape policies for optimizing health promotion and disease prevention resources, actively featured in The HealthTech Festival held at Oslo Science Park on June 15th.

Building consensus on a common architecture is crucial in the Invest4Health project due to its complex nature. With diverse stakeholders and perspectives involved, reaching shared understanding ensures effective decision-making, alignment of goals, and implementation of strategies.