Rethinking Health Systems for the Future

Macroeconomic volatility, geopolitical realignment, fiscal pressures, and accelerating climate impacts are reshaping the global landscape, with profound consequences for health systems. These pressures create both unprecedented opportunities for positive transformation and real risks of maladaptive coping. Short-term reactive measures cannot prepare countries for the health systems they will need in the decades ahead, nor can they harness the strategic advantages of this tumultuous era.

This high-level Panel Discussion will convene a provocative, forward-looking debate on how global and local political economy forces are shaping the trajectories of future health systems. Panelists will explore how countries can harness emerging innovations and global trends to leapfrog traditional development pathways, which losses in outcomes and services they are willing to tolerate during the transition to future health systems, and how health system actors can play a more intentional role in shaping the systems their communities want to see.