Environmental program
Changing our surroundings and environment is fundamentally human. It is equally human to care about the environment and nature. An environmental policy that wants to make a real difference must therefore start with people. How can we best combine our enormous creative power with our care for the living world? How do we use our resources in the best possible way? And how do we translate all this into concrete and implementable policies?
Ephi works on several different projects in the environmental field. Our main focus is on the fight against climate change, but our involvement in environmental issues is broader than that.
Current projects
- Excise taxes such as
environmental policy tool
- The marginal cost of
various climate actions
- Facts in the environmental debate
- The environmental movement
conceptual basis
- The threats and opportunities: carbon tariffs
Health program
The very concept of public health suggests that it is about something other and greater than the health of the individual. The word has a ring of the 1930s and 1940s idea that the state should create whole, clean and compliant citizens. It also went without saying that the work was carried out from the top down, sometimes in a rather brusque manner. This is something that still lives on in public health work, despite the fact that the level of public knowledge has risen and new research and knowledge about everything related to health is available to everyone, everywhere.
In addition, there are huge developments in health technology that allow us all to check sleep, blood sugar levels, blood pressure, reactions to different nutrients, map genes, get full hormone, vitamin and blood analyses without much effort or cost.
Instead of harnessing the power of new technologies and people's engagement, public health policy often shrinks into demands for new regulations and restrictions.
At EPHI, we have a different idea. We believe in the abilities of individuals and we believe in new technologies and developments. We also believe that public health is created from the bottom up and from the inside out, not the other way around.
Current projects
- Healthier
and greener food
- Vaccine resistance
distribution and organization
- Damage minimization
in the field of ANDT policy
- Effective measures against antibiotic resistance