“Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week 2024 is committed to bringing forward the future of healthcare to solve tomorrow’s challenges”
Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week 2024 is poised to emerge as a first of its kind leading platform to foster cross-sector partnerships, to provide insights that will serve as a blueprint for future collaboration and engagement, said Dr. Asma Ibrahim Al Mannaei, Executive Director of Research and Innovation Center at DoH.
What is the core objective of the first edition of Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week 2024?
Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week serves as a pivotal response to the escalating demand for a worldwide, inclusive platform dedicated to addressing global healthcare challenges. It is committed to bringing forward the future of healthcare and life sciences to solve tomorrow’s challenges, today. Abu Dhabi, leveraging its trusted and recognised healthcare system along with a track record of excellence, spearheaded the co-creation of this year-long, borderless partnership, enabling global leaders to collaborate in achieving a bold, collective vision for a brighter future of global health.
Through open, inclusive dialogue, shared knowledge, and collective action, we aim to accelerate collaboration, foster responsible innovation, and encourage investment to solve the most pressing future health challenges. With an increasing need to shift focus from healthcare to health, and recognising the need to enable this transformation, Abu Dhabi emerges as a prominent voice in reshaping the global health landscape. The Emirate is at the forefront of this paradigm shift, offering the essential environment and resources needed to translate this vision into a tangible reality.
Held with and for the world, this flagship healthcare gathering is poised to emerge as a first of its kind leading platform to foster cross-sector partnerships, to provide insights that will serve as a blueprint for future collaboration and engagement. By doing so, we are accelerating the future of healthcare and making good health and quality care a global priority, cementing Abu Dhabi’s position as a global hub for healthcare and life-science excellence and innovation.
What should visitors expect from Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week 2024?
Held in Abu Dhabi, with and for the world, Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week is set to welcome over 5,000 attendees, 100 exhibitors, 200 expert speakers, and 1,000 conference delegates, engaging in a wide range of keynote speeches, panel sessions, and live discussions providing healthcare leaders with valuable platforms to exchange vital ideas and formulate actionable strategies.
Through three main elements: Health Leaders Forum, Future of Health Summit, and the Young Leaders Initiative, Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week aims to inspire and enable the global healthcare community to engage and collaborate. Each event is unique and provides contributions that can further strengthen the outcomes of Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week.
The Health Leaders Forum marks a significant paradigm shift in how societies approach the concept of well-being, shifting focus from healthcare to health, and reflecting a broader understanding of what constitutes true health—a departure from the traditional reactive model of treating illnesses to a proactive focus on promoting holistic health and wellness. It will bring together and engage global leaders in open, inclusive exchanges and joint actions to explore the transformative power of sustainable investment in health and the revolutionising of healthcare delivery.
Structured around four thematic pillars, the Health Leaders Forum will boost public-private partnerships, examine technologies and ground-breaking innovations in AI in the healthcare industry, address global health equity, and tackle the challenge of creating a new global regulatory framework and agreed ethical guidelines required for a globalised and tech-enabled healthcare environment.
Meanwhile, The Future of Health Summit provides a wider range of innovative, data-driven and technology-focused panel discussions and themes central to accelerating the future of the healthcare industry. The Summit will focus on creating an impact on an individual, community, and global level by addressing the convergence of personalised health and precision care, promising tailored interventions based on individual genetic makeup and -omics data. Simultaneously, it will discuss the biotech revolution that presents unparalleled opportunities in disease prevention and treatment on a global scale, while tackling the power of data and AI in healthcare, and tech-enabled new care models revolutionising healthcare delivery, ensuring accessibility, efficiency, and patient-centricity. These focal points pave the way for a future where healthcare is not only proactive and precise but also universally accessible and profoundly impactful.
All these prominent tracks are curated by leading, pioneering minds across the global healthcare sector, coming together in Abu Dhabi, with a pledge to provide a transformative experience and drive the future of healthcare and life sciences towards a healthier world.
What sets Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week apart from other healthcare events?
Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week differentiates from other healthcare events not only because of its purpose-led and future-forward approach, but also because it’s designed to readily transform ideas into action. Deeply integrated into Abu Dhabi’s trusted and recognised healthcare system, the outcomes of this unique platform will identify and promote practical steps towards leading the transformation in global healthcare, tackling the trends impacting health at an individual and societal level beyond current healthcare systems or approaches. Moreover, this is not intended to be confined to a singular event; beyond 2024, we are creating a multiverse “always-on” platform and a year-long borderless partnership to sustain conversations and collective actions. It will provide valuable access for healthcare leaders, stakeholders, innovators, and entrepreneurs to network and engage with high-level policy decision makers and strategists, accelerating collaboration across geographies, and unlocking shared opportunities.
Why is Abu Dhabi the ideal choice to host such a groundbreaking healthcare event?
Healthcare is a top priority for the UAE government, with healthcare spending, especially in healthcare infrastructure, expected to exceed $30 billion by 2027, accounting for 6% of GDP by 2026, with 700 healthcare projects underway. Health research is our main priority, growing at a rate three times faster than the global average, with 80% of health research published by the UAE being conducted in partnership with international institutions. Cultivating positive relationships globally, Abu Dhabi has earned a catalyst role in strategically mapping the future trajectory of the healthcare industry, and fostering collaboration, technological advancement, and sustainability. Abu Dhabi is fast becoming the leading regional centre for healthcare and life sciences research and innovation, with a wide range of fast-growing research opportunities across various focus area, including big data, precision medicine, drug discovery, advanced therapies, biomedicine, (epi)genetics, and others. Abu Dhabi’s close-knit community, diverse population, and continued investments in healthcare infrastructure uniquely positions it o host this transformative healthcare initiative, bring experts and representatives of diverse geographies and industries together to lead the essential shift in sector priorities, and contribute to making access to quality, innovative healthcare a reality for all.
