Tina Woods, Contributor

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The Positive Disruptive Power Of Business To Enhance Health – Time To Do The Right Thing But We Need To Do It Right

The pandemic has highlighted the systemic issues that drive poor health and health inequalities – and we need to harness the power of business to change this by bringing “H” into “ESG”

Now Is The Time To Get ‘Health’ Into ESG Mandates

As our world leaders meet in Glasgow for COP26, let’s remind ourselves that living healthier means living greener too. Let’s start investing in health like what’s happening in climate. It’s time.

The Greatest Disruptor Of The 21st Century Makes Health Our Most Precious Asset

The pandemic has forced the world to realize the value of health-our biggest asset to achieve prosperity. Governments around the world have come to the rescue but business needs to invest long-term in sustainable preventative health in line with ESG ma…

Universal Access To The ‘Longevity Dividend’ Calls For A New Social Contract

Trends show stalling improvements in life expectancy and worsening health prospects in the USA and now the UK. Everyone should have universal access to health equality and the ‘longevity dividend’- in a new social contract with society to help citizens…

Falling life expectancy becoming the ‘climate change’ of health

Despite the strides we’re seeing in science and technology, life expectancies are stalling or even falling in the developed world- fast becoming the ‘climate change’ of health. We need radical action to close the social gap in health and wealth- so tha…

Lessons On Longevity- What The East Can Teach The West To Harness The ‘Longevity Dividend’

What the East can teach the West on turning the ‘ageing challenge’ into a ‘longevity dividend’. We need a strategy to excite citizens, government and business on the positive aspects of living longer- with healthy longevity as one of the most promisin…

‘Age-Tech’: The Next Frontier Market For Technology Disruption

To understand more about the potential of “Age-Tech”, the convergence of Longevity and Technology, I spoke to Dominic Endicott, a venture capitalist and partner of Nauta Capital to get his views on “Age-Tech”, 4Gen and what the venture capital industry…

‘Longevity’ Could Reach Billions In 2019 – And Is No Longer Just The Preserve of Billionaires

The vast global DNA library resulting from mass genomic profiling is helping us understand how we could extend “longevity”, that is living younger and healthier for longer. It also means the search for the elixir of youth may no longer be the preserve …