Meet EuroHealthNet

Samuele Tonello

Samuele joined EuroHealthNet in 2021 and he is now Research Coordinator in EuroHealthNet research platform. He is focused on strengthening the capacity of EuroHealthNet research platform to enhance associate members’ knowledge related to EU policy processes and instruments, while also cooperating with the Policy platform to help ‘translate’ EU policies into researchable actions and to facilitate scientific excellence of EuroHealthNet’s outputs. Before joining EuroHealthNet, Samuele worked as a Researcher in Political Science and as a Lecturer Assistant at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he focused on democratic theory, social and economic inequalities, and class conflict. He holds a B.A. and a M.Sc in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, and a PhD in Political Science at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Alba Godfrey

Alba is a Senior Project Coordinator at EuroHealthNet, the European Partnership for Health, Equity and Wellbeing. She focuses on environmental health and health equity, helping to translate cutting-edge research into policy and practice and advocate for a green and just transition. Alba leads EuroHealthNet’s contribution in a number of EU research projects, including PSLifestyle, as well as BEST-COST (on improving methodologies for the socio-economic cost assessment of environmental stressors such as air pollution), and BlueAdapt (on adapting to climate-change induced changes in our waters in ways that reduce health impacts). In PSLifestyle, EuroHealthNet focuses on ensuring equity dimensions are taken into account in project activities, as well as on linking the research with EU and national policy agendas. Alba holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge, and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. She is French and British.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037342.