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 Simona Mohamsson
Ahead of the 2026 elections, Health for the Unhealthy gets to the bottom of each party's public health policy. This week we meet Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson, who thinks that penetrative sex can be okay after all and that healthcare is a good fit for private providers. Now you can also see...
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...
Publications
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...
Taste of nicotine
Taste of nicotine Professor Fredrik H Nyström teaches future doctors at Linköping University and has long been a very productive researcher. A researcher who manages to combine his own research with the writing of more accessible popular science...
Duty to exercise?
Obligation to exercise? Although daily physical activity is probably one of the best things you can do to stay healthy, it is considered a matter of personal choice. This applies to adults, children and pensioners alike. Is it really reasonable to...
The idea was a good one - about political reforms that don't get the results intended by those in power
The idea was a good one - about political reforms that do not produce the results intended by those in power Political decisions made with good intentions often have unforeseen consequences. Government investigators propose that all flavors in e-cigarettes and e-liquids...