In November 2019, a multi-stakeholder group of experts, including GCOA and several leading patient, caregiver, and professional groups, launched the Heart Failure Charter. The Heart Failure Charter served as a call to action to reduce preventable heart failure hospitalizations and improve patient outcomes, targeting key unmet needs across the continuum of care where intervention and…

The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) Playbook Series captures best practices and key insights from the global business leaders who are embracing one of the most transformative mega-trends of our time: population aging. With the GCOA Playbook, we aim to help forward-thinking businesses and executives seize aging as a driver of engagement, productivity and competitive…

The Alliance consists of experts at the intersection of aging, cardiovascular health, healthcare policy and practice, patient advocacy, and communications – all committed to stimulating education, awareness, and policy action that will improve understanding, lead to earlier diagnosis, and mitigate individual, family and economic burdens of this insufficiently recognized and costly disease condition. Formed in…

In June 2019, GCOA partnered with the Tokyo-based Health and Global Policy Institute to convene a policy roundtable alongside the G20 Finance Ministers Meeting. Held at the Nikkei Head Office in Tokyo, the roundtable brought together a select group of cross-sector experts to share their insights on moving vaccine policies forward and positioning vaccine policies within the…

In July 2019, Prevent Blindness hosted the 8th Annual Focus on Eye Health National Summit at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The Focus on Eye Health National Summit has become a key venue to elevate the national dialogue among diverse stakeholder groups around vision and significant public health issues such as surveillance, access, prevention messaging,…