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Cities serve as the heartbeats of nations. While often associated with exacerbating health challenges, they can act as a catalyst for transforming the way we deliver health and care.

Read our @WEF Centre for Urban Transformation blog article to learn more about how we do all of this and more at the Novartis Foundation.

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How can we make cities more livable and inclusive? Improving health equity is a great thing to start with!

In the context of this year’s annual World Economic Forum, the @wef Centre for Urban Transformation has curated a collection of perspectives on city life and urbanization.

@AnnAertsNF, Head of the Novartis Foundation, has teamed up with Diana Rodriguez Franco, Former Secretary of Women’s Affairs for the City of Bogotá, Colombia, to share two views on how we can turn our cities’ perceived shortfalls in great assets to drive population health at scale. One of them leans on tech and AI, and the other challenges our fundamental assumptions of city architecture.

See page 28 in the booklet.

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Podcast time! 🎙 ❤️

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Be it digital health applications, evidence-based policy design or patient empowerment – in the end, moving the needle on heart disease requires reliable and diverse high-quality data. Tune into the latest episode of “Data at the Heart” now, a new podcast series by @worldheartfed, where our very own Sarah Des Rosiers talks about how we at the Novartis Foundation use data to enable greater cardiovascular health across populations.

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Translating insights into impact! 📈 🎯

We've just wrapped up on the first convening of the #AI4HealthyCities Global Expert Council in New York City, co-chaired by Michelle Williams, Joan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ann Aerts, Head of the Novartis Foundation.

The Expert Council will support us in unleashing the full potential of our population health initiative AI4HealthyCities, a global program founded by the Novartis Foundation and @MicrosoftAI, using existing data from health and health-influencing sectors to identify the leading determinants of cardiovascular health outcomes and inequities in cities such as New York City, Singapore, Basel, and Helsinki.

In AI4HealthyCities, we analyze data from all possible sources, from administrative data to survey data to literature reviews to selected data collection. The Expert Council plays a crucial role in reviewing insights from different data types, evaluate potential differences, and guide additional analytics, in addition to providing us with advice on how best to translate insights into action. Ultimately, we are workings towards the creation and handover of decision-making tools for policymakers, health system managers and civil society.

Learn more about AI4HealthyCities:
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Thank you, dear Council members, for your willingness to support us in moving the needle on population health.

Council Members:
🔸Ann Aerts, Head Novartis Foundation (Co-chair)
🔸Michelle Williams, Joan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health (Co-chair), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
🔸 Daniel Dawes, Senior Vice President, Global Health, and Executive Director, Institute of Global Health Equity, Meharry Medical College
🔸 Valentin Fuster, President Mount Sinai Heart, New York City
🔸 Spring Gombe, Partner Public Affairs, Market Access Africa
🔸 Adriano Massuda, Professor FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Business Administration, São Paulo
🔸 David Napier, Professor of Medical Anthropology, University College London UCL, Director UCL's Science, Medicine, and Society Network
🔸 K Srinath Reddy, Honorary Distinguished Professor and Goodwill Ambassador, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for Public Health Partnerships
🔸 Carolyn Lam, Senior Consultant Department of Cardiology and Director of Women's Heart Health, National Heart Centre Singapore
🔸 Juha Jolkkonen, Executive Director Social Services & Healthcare, Helsinki
🔸 Ramesh Raskar, Associate Director of MIT Media Lab, Assoc. Prof. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab

Millions of lives, billions of dollars: heart disease places a massive toll on our global community, yet is not thoroughly addressed.

For #WorldHeartDay, @AnnAertsNF explored potential root causes for this paradox in her article for @PharmaPhorum– and perspectives for a way out.

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