Transforming the healthcare industry while promoting healthy lives and ensuring access to affordable quality care for all.
Global healthcare spending is projected to increase from $7.7 trillion in 2017 to $10 trillion by 2020. The emergence of personalized medicine, increasing amounts of data, entry of disruptive and non-traditional competitors, the demand for expanded care delivery sites, and revamped payment and public funding models are all impacting the business and financial performance of the healthcare ecosystem. There is an urgency for stakeholders across the industry to transform their business models to remain relevant and financially viable in the long term.
Our Platform curates international organizations, academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biomedical companies, healthcare NGOs, hospitals, healthcare providers, infrastructure and insurance organizations to shape the global health agenda.
Stakeholders collaborate on the major industry challenges identified by our Platform – from innovation in precision medicine, global wellness and health security, to non-communicable diseases, mental health and the strengthening of primary care to achieve universal health coverage.
This project will consider pathways and requirements associated with developing a first-of-its-kind "dashboard" to enable companies to visualize estimates of expected costs to their busin...
The ChallengeAdvancing precision medicine depends on the ability to collect and glean insights from genetic and other biological data, behavioural information, and the environments in whi...
The Global Road Safety Initiative seeks to address the health and development impact of dangerous roads, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries: although these countr...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is about ensuring that all individuals and communities have access to the health care they need. UHC does not mean healthcare is free. It means that person...
The ChallengeAdvancing precision medicine in an equitable and societally beneficial way means ensuring that healthcare systems are able to adopt the most scientifically and technologicall...
Global healthcare has seen tremendous advancements in medical knowledge and innovation yet many informed observers doubt that society is getting the full value of the annual USD 6.5 trill...
The Stop TB Partnership's Accelerator for Impact (a4i) is a public-sector venture capital fund/mechanism, which aims to: (1) pivot the care model to become more digitalized, virtual, and ...
The global, multisectoral Coalition for Access to NCD Medicines & Products (Coalition) is dedicated to increasing access to essential medicines and health products (EMPs) for noncommu...
Global Health Security at the World Economic ForumThe Forum is committed to managing the risks associated with emerging infectious diseases of epidemic and pandemic potential through inno...
Over 41 million premature deaths are caused annually by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with this burden closely linked to poverty. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mod...
Precision medicine has the potential to transform medicine by tailoring treatments to individuals. It is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account ...
The Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies highlights the role technology is now playing in helping to address mental health concerns, mapping the areas for special focus and ...
Scientific and technological advances in medicine promise to transform health and healthcare to become much more connected, precise and democratized, with significantly improved human out...
Economists estimate that, in the coming decades, pandemics will cause average annual economic losses of 0.7% of global GDP – a threat similar in scale to that estimated for climate change...
In a world characterized by an ageing population, more and more people suffering from long-term chronic disease, and ever-increasing healthcare costs, improving healthcare value by delive...
The “Value in Healthcare - Mobilizing cooperation for health system transformation” highlights three drivers of health system transformation:
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Over the past two years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Ageing has examined the nexus of health and wealth among older adults. This executive briefing explores and ev...
This report focuses on catalysing change through an “ecosystem approach” to partnerships. To effectively implement health innovations, we need closer and more efficient cooperation betwee...
The report aims to start a dialogue between the private sector, the international community and the leaders who will form collaborations.
