The quest for wellbeing is as old as humanity. Creating a structured approach requires a civilisation capable of longterm thinking and strategy about the many implications for education, urban design, innovation, institutions, community involvement, allocation of ressources and much more.

NWA has collaborated with Cambridge Medical Academy for several years in pursuing the potential in a knowledge sharing of global practices from traditional and contemporary Chinese medicine with Western medicine and research – and potentially integrating also traditional Mongolian, Indian, African, or indigenous American practices also. Being humble enough to recognise that we still need to explore practices, compounds, and interactions much more across borders. While modern science has advanced immensely during the 20th Century in particular, neither oceans, space, genomics, or microbiomes are fully explored.

To advance the understanding and benefit of global collaboration, NWA participated in the One Health One Road inagural conference in Danfeng south of the historical city of Xi’an – renowned for the discovery of the terracota army of soldiers and the birthplace of the first Chinese dynasty of emperors. The conference gathered 400 dedicated researchers, especially from the Chinese TCM community, but also a small number of European changemakers eager to learn more by integrating ideas and approaches. Lars Münter shared experiences from our work in the Nordic Health 2030 Movement and the Danish Life Science Cluster on the future and nature of health and wellbeing, and the role of trust and collaboration for transformation in communities, institutions, and societies towards a sustainable future.

The Future of Trust? NWA participated in the Tour de Health 2024 organised by Healthcare Denmark to present its work on establishing a KPI model to assess quality and progress in multistakeholder partnerships, especially for mission-driven ones.

The Tour de Health 2024 gathered health care and life science stakeholders from 13 diplomatic missions in Copenhagen to learn from Danish experiences and share their own in trying to work with complex issues in the some times challenging world multistakeholder platforms. The event was a great opportunity to also dive deep into the issue of trust and transformation with both Danish Life Science Cluster community partners (Nordic Healthcare Group, Novo Nordisk, and Lundbeck) and also global partners (Global Health Literacy Academy), trans-Atlantic (Engage Nova Scotia), European (EUREGHA), and Danish (Prescient).

It also gave a good opportunity for further dialogue about the nature of collaboration – gathering also feedback from Canadian Ambassador Carolyn Bennet, Head of Impact at Novo Nordisk Foundation Thomas Alslev Christensen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen Maria Kristiansen, Country Director Denmark Johnson & Johnson Julie Brooker, and Deputy CEO Rigshospitalet Martin Magelund Rasmussen. Find all of the videos here.