Healthcare and Innovation: Veneto Sets the Course at the World Health Forum 2025

Il World Health Forum Veneto 2025 It ends with an important decalogue for the future of healthcare. President Luca Zaia and Councilor Manuela Lanzarin underline the importance of innovation, prevention and international collaboration to address global health challenges.

"An event like the World Health Forum Veneto has confirmed the importance of having an integrated vision to be able to face the global challenges of healthcare. A healthcare that must focus on prevention, innovation in pharmaceuticals to enhance Italian research, guided by Artificial Intelligence and biotechnology for precision medicine. At the center of our agenda are several objectives, including improving accessibility in the healthcare system with the reduction of waiting times by focusing on periodic monitoring, artificial intelligence and the professionalism of our healthcare professionals to continue to be a benchmark model at a national level. The result of these three days will be a stimulus for to encourage international collaborations such as those established during the event with experts from prestigious institutions such as Harvard Medical School, King's College London and Imperial College London and over 35 Italian and international universities, with world-renowned scientists and leading research institutions that in the 16 sessions promoted scientific training in a rapidly evolving context. I thank all those who supported and contributed to the realization of the World Health Forum, from the Scientific Committee chaired by Professor Palù to the Municipality of Padua; from the University of Padua to the Chamber of Commerce of Padua; from the Cariparo Foundation to the Public Health School Foundation and Venicepromex. A great team that is already laying the foundations for next year's editiono ".

With these words of the president of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, greeted and The second edition of the World Health Forum closed at the Padova Congress centre together with the Health Councillor of the Veneto Region, Manuela Lanzarin, who shared with Professor Giorgio Palù, scientific director of the World Health Forum, a decalogue intended for the new generations who will have to act as a bridge between the past and the present of the scientific and healthcare world.

"Summing up the three days in Padua, in which we talked about science, medical perspectives and new frontiers, we can confirm that Veneto is making great strides in this field, thanks also to the integration between the world of healthcare and the academic world, with the hospital companies of Padua and Verona that allow us to operate in university contexts integrating care and research. During the third and final day of the World Health Forum Veneto, we shared with the scientific world a decalogue for the healthcare of the future, an essential evolution to remain competitive while maintaining the care of people as a priority – underlines Lanzarin -. From prevention, with the determinants of health, to the study of genetic and degenerative diseases that represent one of the many challenges of the future, then moving on to precision medicine which, thanks to artificial intelligence and new technologies, will be increasingly efficient. All this without forgetting pharmaceutical innovation and the need to strengthen research".

Below are the points of the decalogue:

1. One Health: beyond pandemics;

2. Determinants of Health: the role of prevention;

3. Innovation in pharmaceuticals: what policies to strengthen Italian research?;

4. Biotechnology and Precision Medicine: new impetus from Artificial Intelligence and new technologies (RNA, genome editing, etc.);

5. What are the prospects for genetic and degenerative diseases?;

6. Finance, newCo, Biotech, Pharmaceutical Industry: Fiscal leverage and stock market for an increase in development;

7. New cancer drugs: need to standardize and simplify European regulation and impact on the NHS and accessibility.;

8. Datasets from diagnosis to drug development: relationships between national and European institutions;

9. Scientific information for a rapidly evolving biomedical science. The role of science journalists: how to train communicators?;

10. Bioethical implications of precision medicine.