Executive Summary - Health for All: Transforming economies to deliver what matters

Overview

The Council was established in late 2020 by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General, WHO) to provide new economic thinking – reassessing how health and wellbeing are valued,  produced and distributed across the economy.

The Council chaired by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, is composed of an all-female group of 10 distinguished economists and area experts. The Council has focused on reimagining how to put Health for All at the heart of government decision-making and private sector collaboration at regional, national and international levels.

The Council – in this report and in its previous work – has recommended policy approaches underpinned by this new economic narrative. The choices made about how to channel and shape public and private investments will determine whether the world continues to struggle with the consequences of major health challenges, or succeeds in creating a new political economy based on Health for All.