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Our Impact
The McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) is catalyzing progress in historically underinvested areas.
Advancing global mental health
MHI and its ecosystem partners are dedicated to advancing global mental health by expanding access to evidence-based treatments, catalyzing sustainable financing to address the $200 billion annual funding gap, and promoting early intervention strategies.
Collaboration
Mental Health and AI Field Guide
MHI, in collaboration with Google and Grand Challenges Canada, created the Mental Health and AI Field Guide, a resource that provides foundational knowledge, actionable strategies, and real-world examples to responsibly use AI in scaling mental health skill-building programs.
Collaboration
Keeping investment in mind: Strategies for financing mental health
The Coalition for Mental Health Investment (CMHI) – co-founded by MHI alongside the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA), Clinton Global Initiative, Kokoro, and Wellcome Trust – developed an open-access guidebook that aims to de-risk mental health investment by championing sustainable financing approaches for funders, implementers, innovators, policymakers, and advocates.
Report
Investing in the future: How better mental health benefits everyone
This report from MHI in collaboration with Clinton Health Access Initiative explores how investing in proven mental health interventions could help individuals reclaim years of healthy life and boost the global economy by up to $4.4 trillion in 2050.
Promoting the brain economy transition
MHI and its ecosystem partners are putting brain health at the center of global dialogues to drive action toward sustainable economic growth and societal well-being. Fostering brain capital has the potential to unlock $26 trillion in global economic value by enhancing workforce performance, igniting innovation, and reclaiming millions of years of quality life.
Collaboration
Brain Economy Action Forum
Organized by the World Economic Forum in partnership with the McKinsey Health Institute, the Brain Economy Action Forum convenes a dynamic group of stakeholders globally to put the brain economy at the center of global dialogues and drive action toward sustainable economic growth and societal well-being.
Media
Brain Health Emerges As Top Priority At Davos
In this article by Forbes’ Tarun Galagali, MHI Global Leader Lucy Pérez discusses why prioritizing brain health drives positive health and economic outcomes, and explores the role that employers can play in the brain economy.
Collaboration
Nine Levers to Build Brain Capital in the Workplace
MHI partnered with UsAgainstAlzheimer's (UsA2) and the Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative (DAC) to develop a unified model for brain health in the workplace that can help employers identify high-impact areas of opportunity for investing in employee brain health, across mental health, neurological health, and workplace performance.
Closing the women’s health gap
MHI and the World Economic Forum released the global health and business case for women’s health, paving the way for the formation of the Global Alliance for Women’s Health — an ecosystem of global leaders working to unlock the $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies.
Report
Blueprint to close the women’s health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all
This report from MHI in collaboration with the World Economic Forum outlines the blueprint for stakeholders to take action in closing the women's health gap and building stronger economies – starting with 9 conditions that comprise one-third of the gap and make up a $400 billion annual return.
Report
Closing the Black maternal-health gap: Healthier lives, stronger economies
This report from MHI in collaboration with the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility highlights the health and economic opportunity of addressing maternal health disparities for Black women in the United States.
Platform
Women’s Health Impact Tracking Platform
The Women's Health Impact Tracking (WHIT) platform is a first-of-its-kind global tool developed by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, to measure progress toward closing the women’s health gap.
Improving health equity & disability inclusion
MHI joined the Missing Billion Initiative in an effort to reduce the staggering 10- to 20-year life expectancy gap people with disabilities face compared to people without disabilities.
Blog
The “Missing Billion”: creating health equity through data for people with disabilities
McKinsey Health Institute is part of a global coalition committed to transforming health systems to be inclusive of people with disabilities—one piece of data at a time.
Video
Closing the gap in health data and equity with the Missing Billion Initiative
Watch this short documentary to learn how the McKinsey Health Institute is working with the Missing Billion Initiative to address health system challenges and close the gap in health data and equity.
Report
The missing billion: Lack of disability data impedes healthcare equity
Addressing the absence of health data on people with disabilities is the essential first step health systems and policy makers can take to reduce care inequity and improve outcomes for this population.
Enabling flourishing lives from early age to older adulthood
MHI and its ecosystem partners are working to catalyze a world where people can flourish in all stages of life and more years are spent living in good health, leading to thriving communities and stronger economies around the world.
Report
The economic case for investing in healthy aging: Lessons from the United States
This report highlights the opportunity of investing in healthy aging interventions, where every dollar invested annually could yield $3 in economic and healthcare benefits in the United States—and potentially other countries.
Collaboration
Healthy Longevity Navigator
MHI partnered with the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute to develop the FII Healthy Longevity Compass, a comprehensive report and interactive dashboard exploring the health and economic impact of healthy longevity.
Case study
Supporting Ohio’s ambition to be the “best place to age in the nation”
The Ohio Department of Aging joined forces with McKinsey to develop a comprehensive aging strategy. The work leveraged MHI healthy longevity research highlighting the benefits of investing in the health and well-being of older adults, which can lead to stronger communities and economies.
Addressing the global shortage of health workers
MHI released the health and economic case for closing the global shortage of health workers, an opportunity to avert 189 million years of life lost to early death or disability and boost the global economy by $1.1 trillion.
Collaboration
Exemplars in Global Health
MHI is partnering with the Digital Health Exemplars (DHE) research project to identify positive global health outliers, analyze what makes countries successful, and disseminate core lessons so they can be adapted in comparable settings.
Video
Strengthening the Global Health Care Ecosystem
MHI, in collaboration with Devex, hosted leaders from across the global health ecosystem for a dynamic discussion on what's needed to address both the supply and demand side of the global healthcare workforce gap — and the role of the public, private, and social sectors in advancing progress.
Collaboration
American Nurses Foundation
MHI is collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) to measure and promote mental health and well-being of nurses in the United States. Through our work together, we have identified trends and potential actions healthcare employers can take to create an environment that promotes mental health and well-being among nurses.
Creating healthy workforces
MHI and its ecosystem partners are providing the data, insights, and tools to enable employers to be a positive force in improving employee health and well-being — a $3.7 to $11.7 trillion opportunity globally.
Report
Thriving workplaces: How employers can improve productivity and change lives
A report from MHI and the World Economic Forum highlights the business case for investing in employee health and outlines an action plan for employers to build a healthier workforce.
Press release
The McKinsey Health Institute and the World Economic Forum team up to support healthier workforces worldwide
As part of the World Economic Forum’s Healthy Workforces initiative, the McKinsey Health Institute further commits to improving holistic employee health and well-being.
Collaboration
Prioritise People: The Next Step
This new report Prioritise People: The Next Step by Business in the Community (BITC), with research from McKinsey Health Institute (MHI), is a practical guide offering science-based measures and interventions that organisations, from large corporations to start-ups, can use to measure health and wellbeing initiatives.
Addressing antimicrobial resistance
MHI supports momentum globally to build a world that’s better prepared for health emergencies, including antimicrobial resistance, which could decrease annual global GDP by 1.1-3.8 percent by 2050 if left unmitigated.
Collaboration
The Trinity Challenge
McKinsey is one of the founding members of The Trinity Challenge (TTC), a partnership of over 40 leading global organizations across the private, public, and social sectors.
Media
The Time to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance is Now
The toll of superbugs capable of outwitting the current armory of treatments, including antibiotics, is accelerating.
Reducing the global disease burden with known interventions
MHI and its ecosystem partners are focused on extending and improving life by applying proven health strategies consistently and equitably across countries, systems, and populations – which could reduce the global disease burden by 40 percent.
Collaboration
Medicover
McKinsey Health Institute is collaborating with Medicover to leverage Scale What Works interactive and identify opportunities for positive impact on health in its service area.
Media
Opinion: Scaling NCD interventions is an investment, not a cost
In this Devex article, MHI Director of Health Data & Analytics Brad Herbig and McKinsey Senior Partner Michael Conway explore how scaling access to known interventions could prevent around 28 million deaths, add nearly 400 million years of healthy life annually, and boost global GDP to $11 trillion by 2050.
Interactive
Scale what works: The benefits of proven health interventions
Interactive visualization showing the opportunity to extend and improve life through known health interventions.