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Invest4Health Open Call for Regions to Collaborate

WELCOME TO THE INVEST4HEALTH OPEN CALL PAGE! Through this open call, we invite regions to build their competence on novel financial and investment models through simulation exercises for health promotion and disease prevention initiatives. Your participation can help us generate impact on local, national, and international levels! Please CLICK HERE to read our Open Call document, which outlines this […]

10 March 2025

Invest4Health

Invest4Health Mid-Term Workshop

Invest4Health (I4H) is a Horizon Europe project with eighteen partners, including four regional testbeds designed to challenge traditional methods of financing health promotion and disease prevention. By introducing innovative strategies such as Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI), social franchising, and new governance mechanisms also involving citizens, the project redefines health as a long-term investment rather than […]

13 December 2024

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Our areas of Expertise

Patient-oriented health care

A multidisciplinary approach to treatment and survivorship care is needed in which personalised care based on the needs of the patient is the starting point.

Innovating for Health

Innovating for health is a cross-cutting driver for HCN with relevance across all our areas of expertise.

Clinic-industry cooperation

We work with regional innovation clusters, SMEs and public authorities and services on practical projects that show how clinic-industry collaboration can be improved.

ESIF and health care investment

European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) used in the health sector mostly financed direct health investments.

Reducing health inequalities

Reducing health disparities is important, and the upward trends for such differences call for further innovative, collaborative actions at all levels.

Stimulating local health economies

Sharing of information, experience and ideas between regions.

Capital investment

Capital investment in refurbishing or building new health care infrastructure and IT are one way of achieving these contributions so long as it is affordable and appropriate.

Health innovations

How health sector investment, policy and practice in R&D can be aligned with regional policies on technology development/application and entrepreneurship.

Inclusive employment

How the health sector can connect with hard to reach groups in order to provide sustainable job opportunities.

Local procurement

How procurement by health sector organisations can be used to support the development of local small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) within each partner region.

About HCN

Joanna Lane PhD.

HCN Managing Director

Founder and Managing Director of the Dutch-registered Stichting HCN (2019+). Founder and Sole Director of UK registered HCN (2008-2019).

Professor at Centre for Health and Technology, Universitetet I Sørøst-Norge
EU Advisor at Norway Health Tech
REGIO-CEI-AMI Senior Expert

Previously: Special Professor of Health & Public Policy, University of Nottingham; Lay Court member, Edinburgh Napier University; MD of CCL Associates; Director of Research & Evaluation, Health Education Board for Scotland; Visiting Professor, University of York

joanna@healthclusternet.eu

Edit Sebestyen M.Phil

HCN Coordinator

HCN coordinator
Sociologist, health promotion specialist, qualified fully nurse

Project Manager for BENCH-CAN and previously for EUREGIO III projects, research associate for Innolabs, Cross4Health and a4i projects, communication officer for SMILE project

PhD Candidate for Active and Healthy Ageing, Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest

edit@healthclusternet.eu

Stephen Wright, B.Sc (Econ.)

Research Associate

After posts in management consultancy and industry, Mr Stephen Wright joined the European Investment Bank to work on various economic areas – energy, industry, transport, waste management, economic development – before establishing and running the Bank’s policy and project appraisal in the health and education sector. He ended his career in the Bank as a Director. Now he is a freelance consultant in health policies, macroeconomics, social investment, and health finance and investment, for EU Member States, European Commission, EIB, World Bank and WHO. Mr Wright has co-edited a number of books. He publishes and presents frequently on these topics.

steve@healthclusternet.eu

Rian Lamprecht PhD MA(Clin Psych)

Research Associate

Rian is the Managing Partner of RLC GLOBAL LLP. He is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Senior Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Previously, he was the co-founder of the Health Development Group at Durham University Business School, and led the development of the European Health Executive Programme partnering with the Karolinska Institute, Semmelweis Medical University, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at Utrecht University, Technische Universität Berlin, and Durham University School of Health Policy and Management. He is an expert on demand capacity and cost modelling, actionable population data analytics, and investment to enable integrated care outcomes. He provides strategy advice to healthcare boards and is at the forefront of bridging the gap between policy development and sustainable service transformation.

rian@healthclusternet.eu

Iñaki Gutiérrez Ibarluzea PhD.

Research Associate

Visiting Director of HTA and Market Access
Director of Organisational Innovation & Management, BIOEF
President of HTAi
Vice Chair of Euroscan
Associate Professor at the School of Nursing of Osakidetza Basque Health Service

ebaluatek@gmail.com

Csilla Kaposvari DLSHTM, MA.

Research Associate

PhD student for integrated urban development for CHO, University of Science of Pécs, Hungary
External evaluation of projects under EU Health Programme, evaluation of national policies in nutrition, investment in health promotion
Organizational development

csilla@healthclusternet.eu

Tatiana Isabela Dölling, M.Eng./MA.

Visiting Director for Latin America Collaboration

Founder and Manager of „funding4health“ Germany: Health technology, innovation management, internationalisation, transnational cluster and ecosystems collaboration
Director of Innovation and Technology of „SIVSA MeQ“ Spain: International Turn Key Solutions in Healthcare
External expert of EU Health Innovation Programmes
In house consulting of different cluster organisations and ecosystems in Latin America & The Caribbean

Previously: Global Marketing, Sales and Financing Manager in the medical technology industry (Europe, Middle East Africa, Americas).

tatiana.doelling@funding4health.com

Fabiola Minda

Media Associate

Founder of FMco and FM Photography (both registered in Amsterdam). Media support for SHCN on EU-funded health innovation projects - specifically documentary storyteller and photographer. Fabiola also scouts collaboration opportunities in Latin America for SHCN as part of its LAC Team.
fabiola@healthclusternet.eu