Dear Community,

Welcome to our quarterly newsletter, where we are sharing latest insights, collaborations, and perspectives shaping the future of health. Read on and be sure to follow us on LinkedIn to learn about our latest developments in real time.

New insights and research from MHI (selection)

• The human advantage: Stronger brains in the age of AI, with World Economic Forum and Brain Economy Action Forum Pathfinder organizations (report)
  • Related insights: Five-Fifty: Building brain capital (interactive)
• The health of nations: Stronger health, stronger economies, with forward from Chris Murray, founding Director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (report)
  • Related insights: The return to better health, by country (interactive tool)
• From potential to practical: Fueling performance with proven workplace health interventions (report)
  • Related insights: Workplace well-being is a competitive advantage (blog)
• A new way of thinking about metabolic health (podcast)
  • Related insights: Catalysing cross-sector leadership for metabolic health (briefing paper)

Convening ecosystems, catalyzing impact (selection)

• At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, MHI brought together more than 250 investors, innovators, and partners to look beyond the trillion dollar headline when it comes to closing the women’s health gap, preview new research exploring the movement for better brain capital, and elevate metabolic health across sectors. Get the roundup.
• At the World Economic Forum in Davos, MHI helped shape a growing cross-sector consensus that future economic performance in the age of AI will hinge on investing in the intersections between areas like brain capital, women’s health, and healthy longevity – including metabolic health. Across its convenings, MHI emphasized that protecting cognitive and metabolic vitality not only unlocks health outcomes, but is central to productivity, resilience, and economic growth. Get the roundup.
• In cities around the world, multistakeholder coalitions are growing to support population health. In Philadelphia, stakeholders across retail, healthcare, and community organizations — with MHI support — are embedding preventive care into everyday settings, bringing health screenings and support into places like grocery stores to meet people where they are. Watch the case study.
• At the Health of Women Summit at NASDAQ, alongside our McKinsey colleagues, MHI convened more than 400 investors, industry executives, and health system leaders to accelerate investment in women’s health — with a growing focus on translating insight into action. Get the round-up.

MHI in the media (selections in brain capital)

• News story: Building Brain Capital: The 21st Century’s Critical Infrastructure – Erica Coe, Kana Enomoto, and Lucy Pérez in The Innovator
• Opinion: AI makes human intelligence more important, not less – Bob Sternfels and Lucy Perez in Fortune
• News story: In the race for a brain economy, developing countries have chance to win – Lucy Perez in Devex

What’s next
In Q2, MHI will head to the World Health Assembly in Geneva, where insights from The Health of Nations, brain capital, metabolic health, and women’s health will be central to discussions across multiple forums. We will also be at the Foreign Policy Geoeconomics Forum and Devex Capital Summit alongside the World Bank Spring Meetings in DC, in town for the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, and on stage at The Economist’s Economics of Obesity and Metabolic Health Forum in Brussels, among other events. We will also release new research, including on topics such as financing for mental health task sharing, innovative care pathways in women’s health, and reimagining primary care. For further details, or to meet us at any of these events, contact [email protected].

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