In February 2026, GCOA released an outcomes report from the OECD-GCOA workshop. The report highlights the importance of integrating prevention and workforce wellbeing into core economic and labor policy, with health and wealth viewed as two sides of the same coin. Key calls to action include embedding healthy workforce aging into national economic strategies; scaling…

This new GCOA paper, launched ahead of Silver Economy Forum 2024, examines how industry leaders are creating business value, engaging their workforce, improving productivity and economic value, and advancing top private-sector priorities by taking action on preventive health for their employees through employee benefits and policies, such as supporting access to adult immunization, mental health…

In December of 2022, Global Coalition on Aging and Global Heart Hub jointly convened a roundtable of global, multi-disciplinary experts from healthcare, patient advocacy, policy organizations, and the private sector to discuss the challenge of heart valve disease in the context of aging societies and their evolving needs. This position paper, Heart Valve Disease: Harnessing…

The roundtable identified promising pathways for OECD countries to galvanize new innovations to predict, prevent, and address age-related health challenges, mitigate the costs of these challenges, and ensure fiscal sustainability in a world of more old than young. While the roundtable participants were clear on the importance of access and reimbursement for healthy ageing in…

In addition to GCOA leadership, contributors to the video include Dr. Mike Devoy, Chief Medical Officer and Executive VP of Medical Affairs & Pharmacovigilance, Bayer; Dr. Nir Barzilai, Director of the Einstein-Institute for Aging Research and Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Jisella Dolan, Chief Global Advocacy Officer, Home Instead; Caitlin Donovan, Global Head,…