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 (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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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