Healthcare grew into a $10 trillion global system, yet 10 million preventable deaths still happen every year. GC21CH is a once-in-a-century gathering of the minds rebuilding it from the ground up.
"Many people are overwhelmed by the problems we are facing. Fear is a big issue in the system, and trust is declining. If we can transform that, bring in hope, and say, 'Yes, we can create a new healthcare system for the 21st and 22nd centuries,' we can do something fabulous."
"If you keep investing in a broken health system, you will build a bigger broken one. Add digital health on top, and you will build a bigger, broken digital health system. The fix isn't more investment in the same direction. It's going back to the drawing board."
GC21CH brings together global leaders across medicine, nursing, pharmacy, digital health, economics, informatics, and public health to design the future-ready health system as the opening act of the Golden Age of Medicine.
GermanyPfarrkirchen, Germany. GC21CH's first in-person lab brought together global workshops gathering inputs from diverse stakeholders.
New YorkNew York, UN WSIS+20. GC21CH's formal launch, held as a side event at the UN General Assembly's WSIS+20 High-Level Meeting, brought together leaders representing more than half the world's healthcare workforce. The premise: we're using an 18th-century system to solve 21st-century problems. The meeting ended with a two-year commitment to deliver working blueprints for governance, financing, system architecture and measurement.
GenevaGeneva, John Knox International Centre. On the sidelines of the 79th World Health Assembly, the Commission brought together leaders from WHO, the OECD and the International Council of Nurses. The question wasn't whether AI works in healthcare. It was whether the system we're adding it to is worth building on at all. The question the room left open: do we build the next system around fairness and countries owning their own data, or do we repeat the same old dependencies in digital form?
UNGAAs part of a United Nations General Assembly Side Event, Health Parliament convened a Global Dialogue on Global Commission for 21st Century Healthcare (GC21CH). The discussion focused on a central question: What indicators should define and measure a 21st-century healthcare system? Participants explored how health systems can move beyond traditional measures to better capture population health, prevention, equity, preparedness, quality, and meaningful health outcomes. The insights from the dialogue will contribute to the Commission’s work on developing a practical blueprint for the redesign of healthcare systems for the 21st century.
SingaporeNational University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. The Global Commission for 21st Century Healthcare convenes in Singapore to ask a question the rest of the world has been slow to put: what can we learn from Asia Pacific? The region carries more than half the world's population, ages faster than any other, and has spent two decades building health systems digitally from the outset rather than retrofitting them. Its answers to coverage, prevention and delivery were arrived at under constraints most high-income systems have never faced. The Lab pairs that question with a harder one. We measure beds, budgets and visits as inputs to healthcare and call it health. What indicators would tell us whether people are actually getting healthier, and who should be accountable for them?
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