Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare
Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare
Transforming the healthcare industry while promoting healthy lives and ensuring access to affordable quality care for all.
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Context and Opportunity
In the next decade, healthcare delivery systems will transform radically. Our current capital intensive, hospital-centric model is unsustainable and ineffective. The Platform for Shaping 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. We aim to ensure every person on earth has equal access to the highest standards of health and healthcare by:
1) Keeping populations healthy
2) Delivering the best care
Support 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.
2) Raising awareness, building a shared understanding and driving collective action to leverage the Fourth Industrial Revolution to transform the health and healthcare systems.
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Our contribution
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 major industry challenges across four pillars - preserving health, preparing and responding to epidemics, accelerating sustainability of healthcare systems and enabling access to health.
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Engage in over 35 multistakeholder projects relating to the Platform’s priorities
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Moving Genomics to the Clinic
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.Healthcare providers are increas...
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COVID-19 Workplace Commons: Keeping Workers Well
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 best practices for returning to ...
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Sustainable Healthcare in APAC: Financing and Delivery Models
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, ageing population and increased di...
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Implementing COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures in Africa
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 limiting the spread of COVID-19. ...
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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; blurred boundaries between w...
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Disruptive Technologies in Mental Health
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 bring great promise.The Lancet...
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Alliance for Clean Air: Mobilising action on outdoor air pollution
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 most severe impacts of COVID-19...
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Pandemic Supply Chain Network (PSCN)
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 partners to access any supply c...
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Epidemic Big Data Resource and Analytics Innovation Network (EPI-BRAIN)
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 intelligence to predict and forecast ...
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Universal Health Coverage: UHC2030 Private-Sector Constituency
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 personal (out-of-pocket) payments do...
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Breaking Barriers to Health Data Project
The Breaking Barriers to Health Data project aims to create a scalable framework to support the effective and responsible use of federated data systems.
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Leapfrogging with Precision Medicine
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.
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Global Health Security: Epidemics Readiness Accelerator
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 innovative, cross-industry and cro...
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Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare
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 the formation of the Global Co...
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