Future Health Dialogue @ UNGA New York - The Economics of Health for All: Investing in Health as Infrastructure

​Health should be viewed not as a cost to be managed, but as an investment that drives productivity, resilience, innovation, and sustainable growth. Achieving Health for All will require more than increasing healthcare budgets. It calls for a different economic model: one that measures success by the health societies create, not only the care they deliver, and that mobilizes new forms of public and private capital to sustain long-term investment.

​This session explores what it will take to finance that future. Bringing together leaders in policy, investment, technology, architecture, and healthcare, it will examine how a new economic approach to health can unlock sustainable growth, strengthen resilience, and accelerate the transition from healthcare systems that manage illness to health systems that anticipate, prevent, and create wellbeing.

​SPEAKERS

• ​H.E. Mohamed Alawadhi - Executive Director, Healthcare System Financing Regulation Sector, Department of Health - Abu Dhabi, UAE

• ​Ms. Priya Basu - Executive Head, The Pandemic Fund, USA

• ​Dr. Biju Mohandas - Partner and Global Head of Healthcare Investments, Leapfrog Investments, India

• ​Dr. Jeremy Veillard - Deputy Director of Health, The World Bank Group

​CONVERSATION  LEAD

​Dr. Rachel Glennerster - President, Center for Global Development, UK