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Global Healthspan Summit 2023: closing the gap between healthspan and lifespan

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On 29–30 November 2023, the inaugural Global Healthspan Summit, convened in Riyadh by the nonprofit Hevolution Foundation, provided a dynamic platform that united experts from diverse sectors to foster collaborative discussions on aging research, innovative healthcare strategies and the healthspan ecosystem. This Meeting Report encapsulates the multifaceted insights that were garnered from the perspectives of science, economics and society.

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Fig. 1: Snapshots of discussions at the Global Healthspan Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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We thank all of the summit participants for sharing their knowledge and insights, and the speakers and panelists who were interviewed for this report: M. AlDriwesh (King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS)), J. Beard (Columbia University), J. Bethell (House of Lords, UK), A. Caplan (NYU Grossman School of Medicine), J. Eckstein (Hevolution Foundation), P. Fedichev (Gero), B. Kennedy (National University of Singapore (NUS)), K. Khaderi (Stanford Medicine). S. Kritchevsky (Sticht Center for Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention), Y. Kukushkin (Hevolution Foundation), A. Britta Maier (NUS), J. McLaughlin (Life Bioscience), R. Nag (R42 Group, Stanford Medicine), L. Niedernhofer (Institute of Biology of Aging and Metabolism (iBAM), University of Minnesota), M. Quarta (Rubedo Life Sciences), T. Rando (UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center) and D. Ty (Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging). Other speakers and panelists included T. Al-Aama (Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia), H. Bin Saad AlJadhey (Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA)), S. AlTuwaijri (World Bank), S. Austad (American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)), H. Balkhy (World Health Organization (WHO)), A. Bause (Apollo Health Ventures), J. Conde (Andreessen Horowitz), P. Diamandis (XPRIZE Foundation), H. Fofack (Harvard University Center for African Studies), D. Furman (Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Stanford University), D. Gems (University College London (UCL)), S. Gilbertoni (Clinique La Prairie), V. Gladyshev (Harvard Medical School), D. Gobel (Methuselah Foundation), L. Nuzhna (Impetus Grants), S. Parazynski (JABS Medtech, Voyager Space), P. Penttinen (Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)), M. Ringel (Boston Consulting Group), M. Roithmayr (Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)), D. Rundell (formerly at the American Embassy, Saudi Arabia), J. Savulescu (NUS), A. Scott (London Business School), J. Symonds (GSK), E. Verdin (Buck Institute for Research on Aging), S. Verma (Oracle Life Sciences), M. von Zirkelbach (Eli Lilly and Company), G. Vradenburg (Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC)) & S. Young (Longevity Vision Fund). We also thank C. Chen (APCO Worldwide) for writing support.

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Khan, M., Al Saud, H., Sierra, F. et al. Global Healthspan Summit 2023: closing the gap between healthspan and lifespan. Nat Aging 4, 445–448 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00593-4

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