About the World Majlis:

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged healthcare systems around the world, pushing the medical industry to demonstrate its capacity to accelerate innovation. To halt the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have stunned the world by reducing a 10 or 15 years vaccine development timeframe to just about a year. The many factors - from technology to policy - that have successfully facilitated the vaccine race are often poorly understood by the general public, pointing to the fact that successful medical advances are also often accompanied by suspicion. Across all areas of health, technologies from artificial intelligence to 3D printing, genomics and robotics are advancing exponentially, shaping the future of medicine.

Everything in the medical industry is now changing, from how patients consult their doctors, to data and analytics-enabled continuous care, to how hospitals and doctors use tools and share information. These unprecedented breakthroughs have given rise to great hope in health research, drug discovery, treatment innovation, personalised medicine, telemedicine, and optimal patient care. Perhaps the medical world will soon find solutions to the biggest health challenges we face, and evolve not just to treat disease, but increasingly, to prevent it.

Professor Fraser was joined on the panel by Dr Federica Busa, Senior Vice President, Expo 2020 Dubai; Sergio Abrignani MD, University of Milan; Dr Yvonne Cagle, Former NASA Astronaut, Dr Mahender Nayak, Senior Vice President, Takeda; Dr Walid Al Zaher, G42 Healthcare; Professor Dr Raghib Ali, Director & Principal Investigator of the Public Health Research Center & Associate Research Professor, New York University; and Dr. G. Anton Decker MBBCh, MHA, MRCP (UK) President, Mayo Clinic International.