
Mental Health in the Workplace
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 Platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare engages stakeholders in new models of public private collaboration to identify and scale up solutions for more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems to keep populations healthy and deliver 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.
Our Partners comprise the world's 1000 leading companies, developing solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
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...
Our world has been shaken and irrevocably changed and the Forum’s mission to improve the state of the world is now more relevant and urgent than ever before. The COVID pandemic has shed l...
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.
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...
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...
The Forum's platform for Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare is leading a new initiative to eliminate viral Hepatitis. The developers and manufacturers of Hepatitis treatments, th...
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 ...
A corporate movement for clean air to accelerate climate action and create healthy communities around the worldAir pollution and climate change are two of the greatest challenges of our t...
Mental and behavioral health disorders impose a significant and under-recognized burden on the global healthcare system, affecting social needs, basic human rights and the economy. And wi...
The Indian state of Telangana has been a pioneer in the adoption of emerging technologies. With the recent completion of India’s first organized medical drone-delivery programme under the...
The FIRST Cancer Care initiative based out of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in India explores how technological advances can revolutionize cancer care, and drives action...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
A Vision for the Future: Transforming Health Systems
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...
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...
At least 92 cases of monkeypox have been identified worldwide. Here's what you need to know about the virus and how public health officials are responding.
Three thousand Kenyans now have access to healthcare thanks to Safari Doctors who have taken to the waterways to treat patients in their island homeland.