Summit on the Global Agenda

Report

Preparing for Precision Medicine

Personalized medicine is the combination of established clinical parameters with emerging molecular information to generate preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic solutions that are tailored to each patient’s needs. Personalized approaches facilitate more precise healthcare deliver and have the potential to improve outcomes while reducing waste of resources and delivering significant other benefits. Assuring a smooth transition will depend on establishing frameworks for regulating, compiling and interpreting the influx of information that can keep pace with rapid scientific developments...

Date posted: November 13, 2012
News

Precision Medicine Revolution is Within Our Grasp, New Report Finds

Oliver Cann, Associate Director, Media Relations, Tel.: +41 79 799 3405; E-mail: Oliver.Cann@weforum.org

  • Precision medicine, or treatment tailored to the individual patient, offers the prospect of higher-quality healthcare at lower cost, but widespread adoption will not happen overnight
  • The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Precision Medicine (2011-12) has identified five key areas for action to enable precision medicine’s transformative potential. Download the full report, Preparing for...
Date posted: November 13, 2012
Blog

Can China become a gentle giant?


It was inevitable that China’s economic rise would shake up the geopolitical order to some extent, but it remains to be seen if such a change will be perceived as a risk or a challenge.

As China continues to grow, its competitiveness with the United States is increasingly felt. Perhaps one of the best examples of this was when President Obama recently called China a US enemy.

Ian Bremmer, editor of What’s Next? Essays...

Date posted: November 13, 2012
Video

GAC Closing Plenary

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Date posted: November 13, 2012
Blog

A world without us – America in isolation


US foreign policy is receding from view, with the possible exception of a new activism in Asia, and declining in influence around the world. In part resource-constrained, in part responding to an isolationist impulse at home, the US is exercising leadership less often and less effectively. The notion of “leading from behind” has become the norm. Outcomes in US foreign policy are now reactive and responsive, not deliberate and...

Date posted: November 13, 2012