Global Health Needs, Measured in Human Impact
4.6 Bn
Without Full Health Coverage
More than half the world is still not fully covered by essential health services, underscoring persistent gaps in access to care.
Source: WHO & World Bank, 2025
47%
Of Disease Burden Could be Avoided
Eliminating modifiable health risks could avert almost half of the projected global burden of disease by 2050.
Source: Future Health & McKinsey Health Institute, 2026 WHO, 2025
5%
GDP benchmark for health spending
A proposed country-level benchmark for public health spending. Separately, HRW cites WHO data showing a 3.8% average in 2022.
Source: WHO; Human Rights Watch, 2025
DRIVING IMPACT
Turning Collaboration Into Global Health Impact
Future Health’s impact comes through year-round activity that connects expertise, advances health innovation, and drives transformative health outcomes.
Abu Dhabi Future
Health Summit
Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit
The Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit is Future Health’s annual flagship gathering, bringing together leaders across government, science, technology, policy, and investment to accelerate collaboration, showcase health innovation, and help turn ideas into impact.
Future Health
Dialogues
Future Health Dialogues
Future Health Dialogues are global conversations that bring stakeholders together across policy, science, technology and investment to enable sustained global health dialogue and collaboration.
Future Health
Studio
Future Health Studio
Future Health Studio captures expert perspectives and conversations across the health innovation ecosystem, turning insight into accessible content that keeps ideas moving throughout the year.
Future Health
Impact Initiatives
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Future Health Impact Initiatives
Future Health Impact Initiatives turn collaboration into action across: Longevity & Precision Health, Digital Health & AI, Health System Resilience & Sustainability and Investment in Life Sciences, including work in precision medicine and genomics.
The Abu Dhabi Blueprints
The Abu Dhabi Blueprints share research and insight from the Future Health ecosystem,
sharing insights and experience to shape the future of health through collaboration and action.
Whitepaper
19 October 2026
The Future of Fertility: From IVF to Integrated Reproductive Medicine
Using Abu Dhabi as a model for analysis, the whitepaper explores select areas that offer transferable insights for other health systems, alongside opportunities for the emirate to build…
Whitepaper
19 October 2026
Embedding Wearables into the Future of Health and Wellbeing: A framework for adoption and integration into Abu Dhabi’s wider health infrastructure
Using Abu Dhabi as a model for analysis, the report examines how wearables can move beyond standalone consumer devices to become an integral part of a preventive, personalised,…
Whitepaper
19 October 2026
The Future of Therapeutics: How Abu Dhabi can help translate the next generation of science into patient care
Using Abu Dhabi as a practical lens, the report examines how health and life-sciences ecosystems can translate advances in genomics, AI, and next-generation therapeutics into measurable patient outcomes.
Whitepaper
22 September 2026
The Future of Healthy Living – A $16.4 trillion opportunity
Combining new global analysis with lessons from Abu Dhabi and other geographies, the report examines the health and economic opportunity of addressing modifiable risk factors and how governments…
Whitepaper
19 June 2026
The Future of Longevity: Abu Dhabi’s Healthspan Ecosystem
Using Abu Dhabi as a model for analysis, the report examines the building blocks of a longevity-first health ecosystem and the partnerships needed to help translate scientific progress…
News & Insights
Future Health and Bridge for Billions to launch programme strengthening health entrepreneurship in emerging markets
Future Health sets out four-part Abu Dhabi blueprint for translating next-generation therapeutics into patient care
Inaugural Future Health Impact Challenge Documentary Released as Expressions of Interest Open for Second Challenge
Future Health Whitepaper Sets Out Five-Pillar Framework to Embed Wearables into Preventive Healthcare
Future Health launches global Challenge to move health innovation towards real-world application
Our Partners
Partnership is at the heart of Future Health – A Global Initiative by Abu Dhabi
Our partners bring together the best of science, innovation, healthcare, and investment to advance progress toward a world where longer, healthier lives are within everyone’s reach
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