The Future of Health: Unlocking the power of data to improve urban health

A live panel discussion at World Economic Forum 2023, joining global leaders from government, academia, healthcare and tech to explore how new multi-sector partnerships can help drive better health outcomes for entire populations.
The topic addresses two burning health issues: health inequities and cardiovascular disease. To address both, we need to understand better what truly drives our health.
Did you know, that only 10-20% of our health is determined by the healthcare we can access? The remaining 80-90% is determined by the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age - known collectively as social, environmental and economic determinants of health.
One way to challenge inequity is to generate data-driven insights that can help decision makers better understand precisely which of these many social, environmental and economic factors have the greatest impact on the health of a given community, and what concrete steps could have the greatest positive impact. 
These data driven insights help us take a population health approach, which means widening the lens from a narrow focus on healthcare delivery to a panoramic vision of improving health in the population at large, ensuring access to healthy lives for all.
Panel details:
Welcome
• Jörg Reinhardt, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novartis AG; Chairman
of Board of Trustees of the Novartis Foundation
 
Panel discussion
• Victor Dzau, President of the US National Academy of Medicine
• Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation of Rwanda
• Ricardo Leite, Member of the Portuguese Parliament, President of UNITE and Head of Public Health at the Portuguese Catholic University
• Peter Piot, Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission
• Bill Weeks, Head of Microsoft AI4Health
 
Moderation
• Ann Aerts, Head of the Novartis Foundation
This session is inspired by AI4HealthyCities, created by the Novartis Foundation, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, and implemented alongside a global network of city leaders, academia and other multisector partners to reduce cardiovascular risk in the urban population.