The Affordable Care Act includes a National Prevention Strategy and a Prevention Fund of more than $16 billion over the next 10 years because, as you all well know, disease prevention is the most effective way to improve health and lower health care costs.

Europe’s pharma pipeline disclosure is more detailed than in the U.S., where drugs in phase I trials are not always disclosed. This means counting the total number of drugs in development is more accurate in Europe.

Here’s a noteworthy global health trend: While governments are shouldering a growing share of the funding, care delivery is increasingly private. Improving public health requires trust and partnership between governments as well as with the corporate and nonprofit sectors. The aid community can help to innovate, build capacity and advocate for sustainable solutions.

Big data could transform the health-care sector, but the industry must undergo fundamental changes before stakeholders can capture its full value.

In 2006, Governor Mitt Romney signed Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 entitled “An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care.” It has been described by many names, including Massachusetts Healthcare Reform (MHR), Romneycare, or simply, as the template for the Affordable Care Act. The goal of the act was straightforward: to ensure near-universal access to health insurance for citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.