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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.
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...
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.
On 11 March 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic. The World Economic Forum, acting as a partner to WHO is mobilizing bus...
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 ...
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...
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 global, multisectoral Coalition for Access to NCD Medicines & Products (Coalition) is dedicated to increasing access to essential medicines and health products (EMPs) for noncommu...
The Breaking Barriers to Health Data project aims to create a scalable framework to support the effective and responsible use of federated data systems.
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...
As COVID-19 forces us to consider a "new normal," the nature of work will change and employee wellbeing and mental health will become more critical. Isolation and loneliness threaten some...
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...
Outdoor air pollution is responsible for 4.2 million deaths and more than 90% of the world’s population live in areas that exceed World Health Organization guidelines for ambient air qual...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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.
Artificial intelligence (AI) models and algorithms can save time and money in the search for drug candidates for emerging diseases, including COVID-19.
Demand for mental health services is rising fast. Digital solutions such as telepsychiatry can help meet this demand - and could spark a wider revolution.
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