Background

Strategic foresight studies provide valuable information for policy-making. They provide insights into the most important future trends and challenges, which is essential for well-informed policy-making. Though, application of foresight studies in the field of Public Health is increasing, the number of studies is still limited. Given the relatively early stage of development of foresight studies in the field of Public health, a proper application, understanding and interpretation of the future studies might need some further guidance. How to deal with an (uncertain) future in the policy making process is one of the issues that needs to be addressed. In this skills building workshop, the basics of strategic foresight methods will be explained. For example dealing with different types of uncertainty, developing scenarios and the translation of these scenarios to policy makers will be elaborated on.

Programme

Workshop participants will be informed about both the theoretical basis of strategic foresight as the practical applications by using existing foresight studies such as the Dutch Public Health Foresight study, and others.

Faculty

This interactive and energetic workshop will be led by:

• Dr Henk Hilderink, Top expert Public Health Foresight at the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), Netherlands
• Dr Ana Vieira, Senior researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal
• Dr Daniela Moye, Senior researcher at RAND Europe

Preliminary programme