Sofiat Akinola is a Project Lead on the Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare Platform at the World Economic Forum working on keeping populations healthy and health systems transformation with a focus on where Value-Based Healthcare, Universal Health Coverage and Healthy Ageing and Longevity. Prior to joining the Forum, Sofiat worked in the NGO and Government sectors where she built monitoring and evaluation skills to support strategies ranging from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Initiative to Ending Homeless in Alberta, Canada. Sofiat has two Masters, one from University of Oxford on Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation with a focus on Impact Evaluation and from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she received an MSc. and MPH. Sofiat also received her Bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Sociology focusing on Gender, Health and International Development.

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高齢者にリスキリングを行う最善の方法とは？

長寿化に伴い、労働人口の状況が変わりつつあります。経済協力開発機構（OECD）諸国では、労働年齢層（15～64歳）に占める65歳以上の高齢者の割合は、2050年までに5人に2人になると予測されていますが、これは2018年には4人に1人だった数値です。世界の人口は2050年に99億人に達すると見込まれており、そのうちおよそ21%（21億人）が60歳以上の高齢者となるのです。

How can we best engage older workers in reskilling efforts?

Ahead of the Jobs Reset Summit 2021, members of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity to shared their insights.

How to boost immunization for Asia-Pacific's ageing population

Effective access to vaccines are vital for Asia's aging population, but a large number of Asia's generation are not vaccinated from basic diseases like influenza.

テクノロジーが長寿社会にもたらす最大のメリットとは

世界的な高齢化が進んでいます。多くの国で平均寿命が70歳を超え、2020年には歴史上初めて、60歳以上の高齢者の数が5歳以下の子どもを上回りました。この目覚ましい成果は、公衆衛生や栄養状態、ヘルスケアの改善によるもの。特に最近では、技術革新、ビッグデータ、そしてAI（人工知能）の活用が、健康寿命の延伸や高齢化社会におけるニーズへの対応につながっています。

Ageing and Longevity

What is the biggest benefit technology will have on ageing and longevity?

The Global Future Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity shares ideas on how technology will enable people to live healthier, more fulfilling lives at all ages.

Future of Health and Healthcare

Shift to digital during the pandemic could enable universal health coverage

COVID-19 has accelerated global efforts to deliver digital healthcare, emphasising how value-based healthcare could facilitate universal health coverage.

新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大が、エイジズムを助長。高齢者が生きがいのある生活を送るため、私たちにできること

新型コロナウイルスのパンデミック（世界的大流行）は、世界中の高齢者に深刻な影響を及ぼし、高齢者の心身の健康と家計に壊滅的な打撃を与えています。知らぬ間に進むエイジズム（年齢差別）の影響は、これらの課題を解決するのを一層難しくさせています。年齢に基づく固定概念、偏見、差別は、今ある不平等を一層悪化させ、効果的な対策を妨げています。

COVID-19 has worsened ageism. Here’s how to help older adults thrive.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected older people around the world. Ageism has made existing inequalities worse and prevented solutions.

Access and innovation: two issues for the private sector’s response to COVID-19

Members of the UHC2030 Private Sector Constituency have shared some of the diverse contributions they are making to the COVID-19 response.

Healthcare Delivery

7 ways the private sector can contribute to universal health coverage

Health expenditures are rising – but government funding has stalled, and personal spending is filling the gap. Here's how the private sector can help.

3 reasons why we should vaccinate both boys and girls against HPV

Human papillomavirus is now the most commonly sexually transmitted disease – and can cause cancer.

Future of Health and Healthcare

How Africa and Asia are joining forces on universal healthcare

Knowledge-sharing partnerships between Thailand and Kenya and Japan and Egypt will aid the African nations in their bid to meet the UN's ambitious requirement of total coverage.

Future of Health and Healthcare

4 steps towards wiping out cervical cancer

Over half a million cases are still diagnosed a year worldwide, but recent major advances in testing are a promising sign that cervical cancer may one day be a thing of the past.