Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, healthcare systems in the United States are facing many changes in the name of saving costs and creating efficiencies. But do the benefits actually outweigh the costs?  GCOA’s issue brief, “Utilization Management Post-Inflation Reduction Act and the Threat to Healthy Aging,” addresses the unintended negative consequences…

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…

On June 6, 2024, The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) Alliance for Health Innovation convened a roundtable discussion of cross-sectoral experts representing patients, caregivers, academia, biopharmaceutical innovators, and business communities to discuss Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs), Upper Payment Limits (UPLs), and the risk they pose to the innovation that is needed to safeguard healthy…

The Global Coalition on Aging is proud to contribute to Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions’ (GPS) July 2024 report, Embracing Demographic Transition: Health and Wealth in an Aging World. CEO Michael Hodin and Executive Director Melissa Mitchell authored the report’s conclusion. Citi GPS collated perspectives from across Citi and its global network to explore how…

At the World Summit on the Information Society, May 30, 2024, GCOA hosted a panel discussion on the global health crisis that is AMR and how technology can, should and will have an impact through diagnostics, surveillance, and innovative developments.  AMR will be responsible for 10 million deaths annually by 2050 – on track to…