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