1 day ago · From antimicrobial resistance to maternal health, Davos advanced conversations on many key healthcare topics. But it also highlighted the need for greater collaboration and financing.

Jun 25, 2024 · The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established in 1948 with the objective of the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health.

Jan 20, 2025 · Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 21 January 2025 – New research from the World Economic Forum reveals that addressing nine key health conditions could transform millions of lives and unlock $400 billion in global GDP annually by 2040, highlighting the vast economic opportunities of investing in women’s health.

Nov 8, 2022 · Global health and healthcare will face important challenges in the future. In the near-term, worsening mental health, healthcare workforce shortages, supply chain issues, climate change related challenges and macroeconomic instability.

The Global Health Equity Network is a World Economic Forum initiative that convenes leaders across sectors and industries to advance health equity.

Jan 23, 2025 · Explore stories on health and healthcare from the World Economic Forum, presenting global health issues, systems affecting human well-being and solutions.

Jan 18, 2024 · World leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to discuss Disease X, a hypothetical virus 20 times deadlier than COVID-19.

Jan 21, 2025 · When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World Health ...

Jan 17, 2024 · Expanding local production, and strengthening local regulatory capacity, are therefore essential for reducing health inequities between and within countries – not only for the pandemics of tomorrow, but to treat the diseases of today.

Size of the problem – Economic analysis by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health identifies the sizeable economic burden of NCDs on societies.