Together with Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen, medical ethicist and Executive Director of ceres at the University of Cologne, Thomas discusses the implications of COVID-19 for basic human rights and that health is only one of our fundamental goods, whereas freedom is the highest good from an ethical perspective.

Peter Albiez, Chairman of the Management Board of Pfizer Germany, is our latest podcast guest with whom Thomas talked about his vision for healthcare to reward health rather than sickness. Listen now to learn what other opportunities health and life sciences offer to future competitiveness and progress.

The fifth episode brought Thomas to the United Arab Emirates where he met with Dr. Hamed Al Hashemi, Director for Strategy, Performance and Risk at the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi. Find out how the emirate plans to integrate new means of technology into its healthcare system by capitalizing the knowledge available and co-creating a vision for the future of health with all relevant stakeholders.

In the fourth episode Thomas and Dr. Georg Matheis, cardiac surgeon and one of Germany’s pioneering founders in healthcare, discuss how to regain the patient-physician relationship, megatrends in surgery, and the current situation of healthcare in Europe.

In the third episode, Teresa Graham, Head of Global Product Strategy at Roche Pharma, discusses the role big tech companies will play and how technology will change how patients access medicine in the future.

In the second episode of the Future of Health podcast series, Thomas discusses the changes data-driven biomedicine will bring to the healthcare sector with Prof. Dr. Torsten Schwede, Vice President for Research and professor for bioinformatics at University of Basel.

In the first episode, Thomas meets with Chief Oncologist at Universitätsspital Baselland, Dr. Andreas Wicki. Tune in to learn about how data analytics will help medicine move from curing diseases to preventing them and who will win the race around steering the future of health.

Welcome to the Strategy& Insider Podcast. In our first season, we will discuss some of the most fundamental questions about the Future of Health. Our guests are experts across all sectors of the healthcare industry including pharma executives, leading academics and medical physicians.