Global Health
Global healthcare: the $300 billion question
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to rise to over nine billion, with two billion above the age of 60. Delivering quality healthcare to all of them will require innovative soluti...
Arnaud Bernaert
MBA in Finance, HEC Paris. More than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Completed some 25 M&A transactions, with a particular focus on targets in home healthcare, clinical decision support, imaging and image-guided intervention and treatment. Former European Regional Controller, Baxter Healthcare, Baxter’s $2.5 billion business. 2005, joined Philips; former Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Philips Home Healthcare Solutions; then Senior Vice-President, Royal Philips, in charge of global strategy, business development and M&A, Philips Healthcare, the $13 billion in sales unit of Royal Philips based in Boston. Joined the World Economic Forum as Senior Director of Global Health and Healthcare.
Latest articles
Future of Health and Healthcare
Why high returns await those investing in health
Achieving the health-related SDGs will require a shift from short-term investment opportunities to those with longer term returns in health care.
Workforce and Employment
7 pasos para crear un lugar de trabajo mentalmente sano
A nivel mundial, es probable que una de cada cuatro personas experimente un problema de salud mental en algún momento de su vida. Mientras tanto, se estima que más de 300 millones de pers...
Workforce and Employment
7 steps to build a mentally healthy workplace
Mental illness impacts individuals, families, societies and economies. What can employers to do help?
Future of Health and Healthcare
A vision for the future of healthcare
Arnaud Bernaert looks at the future of healthcare, and making personalized and home-care a reality.
Davos 2016
Health and the fourth industrial revolution
Healthcare has made huge contributions to the wellbeing and the prosperity of our societies; however the sector is in need of a transformation, says Arnaud Bernaert
Emerging Technologies
How precision medicine will make healthcare cheaper
With the growth of knowledge and understanding of genetics, two things have become clear: people’s genetic differences may lead to different responses to treatments, and more precisely, p...
Five global health trends you just can’t ignore
1. Costs of healthcare delivery are spiraling to unsustainable levels The costs of healthcare have outpaced economic growth by an average of 2% in OECD countries for the last 50 years. Em...
Africa
The pandemic risk in today’s cities
Dense urban living facilitates the spread of infectious diseases. Particular vulnerabilities exist in countries where rapid urbanization results in informal settlements that make it diffi...
Financial and Monetary Systems
3 ways India can improve its health
A healthy population is the engine behind sustainable economic growth. For India, the health of its population must be central to the agenda for its government, business leaders and commu...
How we can all build a healthier future
We are at a seismic moment in two major ways: how nations care for their citizens’ health and how businesses invest in their own and their consumers’ healthy futures. Just 40 years ago li...