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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.
Report
The future is shared: Financing task-sharing programs in mental health
MHI’s playbook provides a structured framework with practical strategies to sustainably finance and scale proven mental health task-sharing models, featuring global case studies, diverse funding pathways, and tools to assess economic and social impact.
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.
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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. Scaling known brain health interventions could avert 267 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) globally by 2050 and generate up to $6.2 trillion in cumulative GDP gains. More broadly, fostering brain capital—the combination of brain health and brain skills, such as critical thinking, creativity, adaptability, and collaboration—can enhance workforce performance, ignite innovation, and improve quality of life, helping societies build long-term economic resilience and prosperity.

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.
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Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies
MHI and the World Economic Forum examine the systemic disparities driving poorer health outcomes for women and highlight the opportunity to improve women’s health while potentially unlocking $1 trillion in annual global economic value by 2040.
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Blueprint to close the women’s health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all
Building on the case for closing the women’s health gap, MHI and the World Economic Forum outline five areas for action that stakeholders can advance to improve women’s health outcomes and unlock broader economic benefits.
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CARE for women: Investing in care delivery to improve women’s lives and livelihoods
MHI research examines opportunities to address inequities in women’s care delivery, highlighting evidence-based actions across screening, diagnosis, treatment, and patient engagement that could improve women’s lives and livelihoods.
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.

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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.
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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.
Reducing disease burden with proven interventions
MHI is focused on extending and improving life across countries, systems, and populations. By 2050, the average person could spend three more years in poor health than in 2000 or gain nearly a decade of healthy life if society scales access to known interventions.
Report
The health of nations: Stronger health, stronger economies
MHI research examines the health and economic opportunity of scaling proven interventions globally, highlighting how reducing preventable disease burden could add years of healthy life while supporting stronger, more productive economies.
Interactive
From potential to practical: Fueling performance with proven workplace health interventions
This open-access interactive allows individuals to examine potential gains in healthy life, reductions in disease burden, and improvements in economic output across countries, and to understand where investing in health could have the greatest potential impact on national prosperity.
Collaboration
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
MHI is collaborating with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to build the quantitative evidence base for health investments and to raise awareness of its implications for policy and economic growth, drawing on IHME's Global Burden of Disease data.
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.
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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.
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.
Accelerating the metabolic health revolution
MHI and its ecosystem partners are working to move the world beyond treating obesity toward metabolic health for all—a whole-of-society shift that could add 469 million healthy life years and boost global GDP by $5.65 trillion annually in 2050, three to four times the return of addressing obesity alone.
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.
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The path toward a metabolic health revolution
MHI research finds that society is at a fork in the road. Reacting to obesity case by case would unlock 132 million healthy life years, while a prevention-led push to improve metabolic health comprehensively would unlock 469 million — and the report sets out the five shifts needed to get there.

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Catalysing Cross-Sector Leadership for Metabolic Health
This briefing paper from MHI in collaboration with the World Economic Forum draws on cross-sector focus groups with leaders across food, consumer health, pharmaceuticals, healthcare provision, insurance, and civil society to identify the concrete actions each sector can take to advance metabolic health.
Collaboration
MHI collaboration with Stanford Medicine
MHI and Stanford University School of Medicine co-hosted the first-of-its-kind Metabolic Health Business Building Summit, convening more than 70 leaders from over 50 organizations across life sciences, consumer, insurance, healthcare, and investment to explore how new ventures can bridge evidence-based science and growth.
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.
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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.










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