An unparalleled focus on health from all stakeholders, new structures and systems, AI and big data, mean there’s much to be optimistic about for the future of global health
A quick glance at the headlines does not suggest that now is the time for optimism around global health. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect hundreds of millions of people around the world, routine healthcare services and immunisation campaigns are struggling to catch up with the pandemic backlog, and there are even fears that the millions of people displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could drive increases in rates of diseases such as multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Europe.
Against this backdrop, leaders from the public and private sectors are meeting this week at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. High on the agenda will be the need to drive a rapid acceleration in scientific and medical breakthroughs through a renewed focus on public-private partnerships as a driver for building new, sustainable systems in and out of health and healthcare.
Against this fast-moving backdrop the forum’s Platform for Shaping the Future of Health & Healthcare has found four reasons for optimism, fuelled by collaborations in the global health space and pulling through lessons learnt over the last two years in discovering and delivering medical breakthroughs to the market:
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