Possible partner in new research inititative
CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Ieva Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Do you have suggestions for people who we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:ec656141-68ba-405c-bd16-4c25986267c2] [cid:10f30e52-5b47-4030-b7a1-e62cc30e4656]
CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Mindaugas Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Is this something that would be of interest for your institutions, or do you have suggestions for other people we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:ec656141-68ba-405c-bd16-4c25986267c2] [cid:10f30e52-5b47-4030-b7a1-e62cc30e4656]
CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Arnfinn, Dear all, It is good to hear from you Arnfinn, I am doing well, thank you 🙂 I would be happy to participate in a consortium. However, some of my other colleagues from the faculty are preparing their own proposal for this call. I know that it is not an obstacle in Horicon requirements per se, but I want to be transparent with you as well. If you still want to have me (and possibly some of my team from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) on board, I am interested to join. Kind regards, Mindaugas Mindaugas Štelemėkas Sveikatos tyrimų instituto vadovas ir vyr. mokslo darbuotojas / Head and Senior Scientist, Health Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention & Control of NCDs Profilaktinės medicinos katedros profesorius/ Prof., Department of Preventive Medicine Visuomenės sveikatos fakultetas / Faculty of Public Health Medicinos akademija / Medical Academy Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas / Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tilžės g. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania; 329 kab. El. paštas: mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmuni.lt> tel: +370 37 242901 (vietinis - 5001) ________________________________ From: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:15 To: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Mindaugas Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Is this something that would be of interest for your institutions, or do you have suggestions for other people we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:ec656141-68ba-405c-bd16-4c25986267c2] [cid:10f30e52-5b47-4030-b7a1-e62cc30e4656]
Dear Mindaugas, It’s great to hear from you. At this stage, we are trying to complete the set of countries where we plan to implement interventions as part of the project. It is in this context that we contacted potential partners in Lithuania, given your strong public health work. We have made the decision that we will include in the partnership the National Public Health Institute of each country committing to implement an intervention package. In some instances, Public Health Institutes may be supported by a local university. Whether it would be ideal to have you involved, given that your University is already participating in another proposal, depends on whether the other bid would also plan to implement interventions in Lithuania, and whether the National Public Health Institute is also involved in the other bid. I would like to avoid proposing alternative sets of interventions in the same country in two different proposals. If the role of your university in the other bid was different, then I would be less concerned. I look forward to hearing further from you. Sincerely, Franco Franco Sassi PhD Chair in International Health Policy and Economics Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation (CHEPI) Imperial Business School London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Email: f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Tel: +44(0)207 594 9157 From: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt> Sent: 16 March 2026 12:55 To: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Possible partner in new research inititative Some people who received this message don't often get email from mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Arnfinn, Dear all, It is good to hear from you Arnfinn, I am doing well, thank you 🙂 I would be happy to participate in a consortium. However, some of my other colleagues from the faculty are preparing their own proposal for this call. I know that it is not an obstacle in Horicon requirements per se, but I want to be transparent with you as well. If you still want to have me (and possibly some of my team from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) on board, I am interested to join. Kind regards, Mindaugas Mindaugas Štelemėkas Sveikatos tyrimų instituto vadovas ir vyr. mokslo darbuotojas / Head and Senior Scientist, Health Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention & Control of NCDs Profilaktinės medicinos katedros profesorius/ Prof., Department of Preventive Medicine Visuomenės sveikatos fakultetas / Faculty of Public Health Medicinos akademija / Medical Academy Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas / Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tilžės g. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania; 329 kab. El. paštas: mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmuni.lt> tel: +370 37 242901 (vietinis - 5001) ________________________________ From: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no<mailto:Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no>> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:15 To: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Mindaugas Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Is this something that would be of interest for your institutions, or do you have suggestions for other people we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:image001.png@01DCB549.6D38C7B0] [cid:image002.png@01DCB549.6D38C7B0]
CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Mindaguas and thanks For your information I have also reach out to Ieva Gudanaviciene at the MoH also with a similar request as I sent to you. Best regards Arnfinn ________________________________ From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2026 13:37 To: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>; Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no> Cc: Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Mindaugas, It’s great to hear from you. At this stage, we are trying to complete the set of countries where we plan to implement interventions as part of the project. It is in this context that we contacted potential partners in Lithuania, given your strong public health work. We have made the decision that we will include in the partnership the National Public Health Institute of each country committing to implement an intervention package. In some instances, Public Health Institutes may be supported by a local university. Whether it would be ideal to have you involved, given that your University is already participating in another proposal, depends on whether the other bid would also plan to implement interventions in Lithuania, and whether the National Public Health Institute is also involved in the other bid. I would like to avoid proposing alternative sets of interventions in the same country in two different proposals. If the role of your university in the other bid was different, then I would be less concerned. I look forward to hearing further from you. Sincerely, Franco Franco Sassi PhD Chair in International Health Policy and Economics Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation (CHEPI) Imperial Business School London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Email: f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Tel: +44(0)207 594 9157 From: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt> Sent: 16 March 2026 12:55 To: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Possible partner in new research inititative Some people who received this message don't often get email from mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Arnfinn, Dear all, It is good to hear from you Arnfinn, I am doing well, thank you 🙂 I would be happy to participate in a consortium. However, some of my other colleagues from the faculty are preparing their own proposal for this call. I know that it is not an obstacle in Horicon requirements per se, but I want to be transparent with you as well. If you still want to have me (and possibly some of my team from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) on board, I am interested to join. Kind regards, Mindaugas Mindaugas Štelemėkas Sveikatos tyrimų instituto vadovas ir vyr. mokslo darbuotojas / Head and Senior Scientist, Health Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention & Control of NCDs Profilaktinės medicinos katedros profesorius/ Prof., Department of Preventive Medicine Visuomenės sveikatos fakultetas / Faculty of Public Health Medicinos akademija / Medical Academy Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas / Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tilžės g. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania; 329 kab. El. paštas: mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmuni.lt> tel: +370 37 242901 (vietinis - 5001) ________________________________ From: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no<mailto:Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no>> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:15 To: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Mindaugas Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Is this something that would be of interest for your institutions, or do you have suggestions for other people we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:image001.png@01DCB549.6D38C7B0] [cid:image002.png@01DCB549.6D38C7B0]
CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Professor Franco, I fully understand your situation. I hope we could find a common ground in future proposals. Also, I wish you best of luck with the project proposal ?? Kind regards, Mindaugas Mindaugas Štelemėkas Sveikatos tyrimų instituto vadovas ir vyr. mokslo darbuotojas / Head and Senior Scientist, Health Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention & Control of NCDs Profilaktinės medicinos katedros profesorius/ Prof., Department of Preventive Medicine Visuomenės sveikatos fakultetas / Faculty of Public Health Medicinos akademija / Medical Academy Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas / Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tilžės g. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania; 329 kab. El. paštas: mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmuni.lt> tel: +370 37 242901 (vietinis - 5001) ________________________________ From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2026 14:37 To: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>; Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no> Cc: Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Mindaugas, It’s great to hear from you. At this stage, we are trying to complete the set of countries where we plan to implement interventions as part of the project. It is in this context that we contacted potential partners in Lithuania, given your strong public health work. We have made the decision that we will include in the partnership the National Public Health Institute of each country committing to implement an intervention package. In some instances, Public Health Institutes may be supported by a local university. Whether it would be ideal to have you involved, given that your University is already participating in another proposal, depends on whether the other bid would also plan to implement interventions in Lithuania, and whether the National Public Health Institute is also involved in the other bid. I would like to avoid proposing alternative sets of interventions in the same country in two different proposals. If the role of your university in the other bid was different, then I would be less concerned. I look forward to hearing further from you. Sincerely, Franco Franco Sassi PhD Chair in International Health Policy and Economics Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation (CHEPI) Imperial Business School London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Email: f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Tel: +44(0)207 594 9157 From: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt> Sent: 16 March 2026 12:55 To: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Possible partner in new research inititative Some people who received this message don't often get email from mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Arnfinn, Dear all, It is good to hear from you Arnfinn, I am doing well, thank you ?? I would be happy to participate in a consortium. However, some of my other colleagues from the faculty are preparing their own proposal for this call. I know that it is not an obstacle in Horicon requirements per se, but I want to be transparent with you as well. If you still want to have me (and possibly some of my team from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) on board, I am interested to join. Kind regards, Mindaugas Mindaugas Štelemėkas Sveikatos tyrimų instituto vadovas ir vyr. mokslo darbuotojas / Head and Senior Scientist, Health Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention & Control of NCDs Profilaktinės medicinos katedros profesorius/ Prof., Department of Preventive Medicine Visuomenės sveikatos fakultetas / Faculty of Public Health Medicinos akademija / Medical Academy Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas / Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tilžės g. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania; 329 kab. El. paštas: mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmuni.lt> tel: +370 37 242901 (vietinis - 5001) ________________________________ From: Arnfinn Helleve <Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no<mailto:Arnfinn.Helleve@fhi.no>> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2026 11:15 To: Mindaugas Štelemėkas <mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt<mailto:mindaugas.stelemekas@lsmu.lt>> Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk>>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Mindaugas Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Is this something that would be of interest for your institutions, or do you have suggestions for other people we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:image001.png@01DCB549.6D38C7B0] [cid:image002.png@01DCB549.6D38C7B0]
CAUTION: This message came from outside Imperial. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and were expecting this email. Dear Ieva Nice to meet you here in Oslo today. Below is the link to the call as promised. I suggest that we set up a meeting eventually to explore a possible involvement of Lithuanian partners Best regards Arnfinn https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opport... Sendt fra Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Arnfinn Helleve Sent: Friday, March 13, 2026 5:17:11 PM To: ieva.gudanaviciene@sam.lt <ieva.gudanaviciene@sam.lt> Cc: zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>; Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Lodge, Heather A <h.lodge@imperial.ac.uk> Subject: Possible partner in new research inititative Dear Ieva Hope that you are doing fine! I am involved in an international consortium working on a Horizon research proposal lead by Franco Sassi at the Imperial College in a UK for a call on "Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people". The consortium is interested in connecting with a partner in Lithuania, either at the public health institute or a university eventually. Do you have suggestions for people who we could contact? Best regards Arnfinn Arnfinn Helleve Head of Centre Researcher, PhD Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Measures Norwegian Institute of Public Health Postal address: PO Box 4404, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway Tel: (+47) 21 07 88 16 Mob: (+47) 93 04 66 59 www.fhi.no<http://www.fhi.no/> [cid:ec656141-68ba-405c-bd16-4c25986267c2] [cid:10f30e52-5b47-4030-b7a1-e62cc30e4656]
participants (3)
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Arnfinn Helleve
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Mindaugas Štelemėkas
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Sassi, Franco