Institute Report
2025 Indicators of Progress for Advancing Health Globally
Markers and metrics
Jan 20, 2025

The outlook for advancing healthcare globally in 2025 provides grounds for cautious optimism. The world is finally fully out from under the burden of the COVID-19 global pandemic, and multiple ongoing efforts by international stakeholders point to opportunities for real progress with programs that will benefit health systems and populations around the world, and the scientific evidence to support such efforts is robust. Yet, there are also potential threats from the emergence of new diseases, macro-economic and geo-political stress points, and many other longstanding issues that inhibit the advancement of health globally and remain unresolved.

In this research brief, we look at a select few of the many opportunities and challenges, consider the efforts underway to improve health and advance health outcomes, and identify seven key indicators we will be watching to monitor whether advances are being made globally during the course of 2025.

These are not predictions of what will happen, but rather some specific measurable markers of progress that we will be able to review at the end of this year.

The 2025 indicators of progress for advancing health globally are:

  • Rebuilding trust in healthcare and science
  • Advancing universal healthcare coverage
  • Closing the primary care gap
  • Progress on addressing well-known, longstanding, but unresolved healthcare issues
  • Delivering the right care for the right patient globally
  • Moving ‘upstream’ with disease interception
  • Advancing the use of AI in drug development

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