The Platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare serves the mission to ensure every person on earth has equal access to the highest standards of health and healthcare by keeping populations healthy and delivering the best care.
In the next decade, healthcare delivery systems will transform radically. Our current capital intensive, hospital-centric model is unsustainable and ineffective. The Future of Health and Healthcare leverages a data-enabled delivery system and virtual care, integrated across the continuum of care from precision prevention to personalized care delivery, with most health services offered in appropriate settings.
To achieve the mission, the Platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare supports stakeholders in the global health and healthcare ecosystem prepare for the future by 1) encouraging new models of collaboration/partnership in addressing challenges, creating opportunities and scaling existing best-in-class initiatives in public-private coalitions, and 2) raising awareness, building a shared understanding and driving collective action to leverage the Fourth Industrial Revolution to transform the health and healthcare systems.
The challenge Public health and social measures (PHSMs) that encourage physical distancing, such as school closures, business closures and stay-at-home orders, have contributed to lim...
The Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC) is a first-of-its-kind global effort to accelerate the discovery, testing and delivery of precision interventions for Alzheimer’s. Through public...
This project will develop case studies demonstrating how a precision medicine approach in countries with greenfield policy spaces can help transform healthcare delivery and outcomes.
An initiative to make sure health systems withstand future crises.The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) has been initiated by the London School of Econom...
SummaryThe COVID-19 Workplace Commons: Keeping Workers Well initiative leverages the World Economic Forum’s platform, networks and global convening ability to collect, refine and share be...
Tuberculosis (TB) has killed more people over the last decade than any other infectious disease. It is a lethal respiratory pathogen, transmitted through the air, and found in nearly ever...
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population and, like most regions, it is undergoing significant demographic shift with increased life expectancy, agei...
Launched at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, the mission of the Pandemic Supply Chain Network is to create and manage a market network allowing for WHO and private sector p...
What changes from COVID-19 will be permanent and what changes will not be permanent? How are we witnessing drastic, permanent changes in healthcare system delivery that adversely impact h...
The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Lung Ambition Alliance, launched the COVID-19 Lung Cancer EU Taskforce, to rapidly assess the learnings and address the needs of lung can...
Outbreaks are inevitable, however, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is possible – if we act collectively – to mitigate the impact of outbreaks by harnessing AI and epidemic intelli...
The Breaking Barriers to Health Data project aims to create a scalable framework to support the effective and responsible use of federated data systems.
ContextThe promise of precision medicine hinges on our ability to use highly personal data about individuals and populations to prevent, screen, diagnose or treat patients with disease.He...
M2030 is a platform for cause-based corporate engagement that takes a novel approach to eliminating malaria by 2030. It unites international health organizations, consumers and prominent ...
In July 2016, the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), launched the Value in Healthcare Project (2016-2018). The outcome of this collaboration is ...
Decades of exposure to toxic air have worsened the health of communities globally. Millions have been left with respiratory and other health problems which leave them predisposed to the m...
The global community agrees that mental health needs urgent addressing. And with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, technological solutions for managing mental health for people in isolation ...
The Forum's platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare is leading a new initiative to “Find the Missing Millions” with Hepatitis (Hepatitis B and C) and bringing partners to...
This toolkit aims to provide stakeholders exploring the use of disruptive technologies in mental health with the tools to develop, adopt and engage standards and policies that address any...
This report considers the barriers and enablers of the implementation, adoption and effectiveness of diagnostics. It offers possible solutions for application in LMICs, and in industriali...
During the height of the outbreak, many hospitals diverted their efforts exclusively to COVID-19 patients and cancer clinics suspended or limited services. There is an opportunity to emer...
This report outlines the Precision Medicine Readiness Principles project, which will produce a living document offering benchmarks for those wishing to advance precision medicine in their...
When a new technology is introduced in healthcare, especially one based on AI, it invites meticulous scrutiny. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of chatbots in healthcare...
World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare launched the Precision Medicine Readiness Principles, a thought leadership project that will begin with devel...
The discovery of diagnoses and treatments that could save or improve lives requires access to large data sets, but such access has historically been blocked by variations in data security...
This white paper aims to begin addressing the need for new or modified policies by proposing a genomic data policy framework and corresponding set of ethical tensions for policy-makers, b...
The benefits of precision medicine in terms of superior health and healthcare outcomes are increasingly clear, but there are challenges to the equitable and widespread dissemination of pr...
For centuries, the high rate of childhood mortality was the single biggest challenge facing society. Today, youth mental health issues have replaced this. This report offers a blueprint f...
This guidance document highlights six broad ethical tensions to be aware of when crafting sound, long-lasting genomic data policy. We do not imply that one ethical position is right or ...
Rare diseases are not as rare as you may think. Approximately 10% of the global population or 475 million people are affected by a “rare” condition. But national approaches to rare-diseas...
This paper is part of a Forum project, Breaking Barriers to Health Data, in which the health and data-policy communities navigate the complex landscape of data policies via the use of fed...
This workstream aims to address this issue by developing and testing elements of genomic data policies and a corresponding ethical framework from a “future of healthcare” and patient-c...
A Vision for the Future: Transforming Health Systems
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:
The World Bank estimates global population sizes of approximately 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.2 billion by 2040. As recently as 2014, the United States and United Kingdom spent approximatel...
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.
Administration of oxygen is vital in battling hypoxaemia, a complication of COVID-19 pneumonia. However, poorer hospitals don't have access to supplies.
If warming trends continue, expects say it’s almost certain summer deaths will increase. Healthcare measures need to be put in place.
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