Radical Health Festival

Financing Prevention at Radical Health Festival
Rypple led two dynamic workshops on financing prevention at the Radical Health Festival in Helsinki, drawing enthusiastic crowds and sparking vital conversations. The sessions highlighted innovative approaches to funding health-ing - watch this space for more actionable insights and collaborations emerging from this energy!

Prof. Janne Martikainen
Professor of Pharmaco-economics and Head of the House of Ef ectiveness. Janne focuses on
value-based and outcome-based financing models, with a strong emphasis on aligning investments to expected health outcomes. His work bridges economic theory and real-world health system reform, especially in designing contracts and incentives around long-term prevention.

Prof. Joanna Lane
Founder of Stichting Health ClusterNet and senior academic in Norway. Joanna leads and advises multiple EU-funded initiatives, including Invest4Health, focusing on smart capacitating investment for less invasive interventions in breast cancer and cardiometabolic disease. She is Chair of FH Europe, a network of patient organizations for familial hyperlipidemias, and an advisor to Norway Health Tech. Her work connects policy, patients, innovation, and European system reform.

Marija Mazic
Based between Croatia and Sweden, Marija works with Reach for Change and leads Next in Mind, a pan-Nordic initiative building mental health ecosystems. She focuses on ecosystem development, cross-sector collaboration, and innovative financing, including social impact bonds. Her work highlights the persistent gaps between social innovation and financial systems.

Robert Dean
Academic at the University of Lincoln specializing in creative health, arts in health, and social
prescribing. Robert brings an interdisciplinary perspective and is particularly critical of how
evidence is currently produced and used in health financing decisions. His work challenges
dominant evaluation models and explores how sustainability and creativity are undermined by narrow evidence requirements.

Aejmelaeus Riitta
Medical doctor working at the Finnish Ministry of Finance, responsible for health-related portfolios during a major system reform. Riitta combines clinical experience, fiscal responsibility, and policy leadership. She teaches medicine at university alongside her government role and works at the intersection of healthcare delivery, financing, and national reform.