Public health strand
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
- The spread and organization of vaccine resistance
- Harm reduction in ANDT policy
- Effective measures against antibiotic resistance
What's new
Election podcast with Nooshi Dadgostar
Ahead of the 2026 election, Hälsa för ohälsosamma (Health for the Unhealthy) takes a close look at each party's public health policy. First up is Nooshi Dadgostar from the Left Party, who believes that people should be allowed to drink schnapps in nursing homes and that entirely privately funded healthcare is not necessarily so...
EPHI think tank launches network for doctors
In January 2020, I was accepted into Stureakademin, the think tank Timbro's advanced program in political ideology. During the same period, I studied medicine at Uppsala University. The media reported on a virus spreading in central China. Since I was...
MEP Pietro Fiocchi on the green deal and nicotine pouches
EPHI's Adam Schlüssler interviewed Pietro Fiocchi MEP, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. They discussed the implications for the Green Deal and current and upcoming regulatory issues such as...
Seminar: Who can speak to the powers that be?
The WHO is pushing to make it more difficult or even impossible to talk to politicians if you work in the beverage or food sector. It is already difficult, if not impossible, for the tobacco industry to talk to political representatives. Now the alcohol and...
Make America Healty Again
Make America healthy again! Robert F. Kennedy Jr, RFK, nephew of former President John F Kennedy and son of Robert F Kennedy, who switched from the Democrats to the Republicans in this year's election, will be tasked by President Donald Trump. He will ...
Publications
Report: A final round - 50 years of the total consumption model
Just in time for midsummer, EPHI is releasing the report En sista runda (A final round), in which we review the background to Swedish alcohol policy. The aim of the report is to review the conceptual model that forms the basis for the state's monopoly on the sale of alcohol. The idea is based on the notion...
EPHI in Almedalen - Is slim a choice?
Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess has written a report for Ephi on obesity and medicines. Flink Amble-Naess notes that there is currently effective medical treatment for weight loss. The question is who should get it, how the treatment should be financed and how we...
EPHI in Almedalen - A modern public health policy
Economist David Sundén meets psychiatrist David Eberhard, moderated by Henrik Jönsson, to discuss nicotine and public health. Both David Sundén and David Eberhard have each published a report on nicotine and public health. Now they are meeting to...
Nicotine and the brain
Doctor David Eberhard has written a report for EPHI on nicotine, the brain and addiction. Eberhard asks whether addiction itself is really dangerous and how we distinguish between an addiction and a habit. The report is available in both English and Swedish. Watch the call from Brussels...
Is slim a choice?
Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess has written a report for Ephi on obesity and medicines. Flink Amble-Naess notes that there is currently effective medical treatment for weight loss. The question is who should get it, how the treatment should be financed and how we...