Advancing digital and data-led approaches to population health 

The Novartis Foundation focuses on the world’s most pressing health challenges: cardiovascular disease and health inequity. We take a population health approach, which means widening the lens from a narrow focus on healthcare delivery to a panoramic vision of improving health in the population at large. Our population health approach brings together disconnected data to create insights that help authorities understand the root causes of unequal health outcomes and find the best ways and best partners to remediate those. This empowers governments to re-engineer reactive care systems into proactive, predictive and preventive health systems that keep people healthy.

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Transforming population health

The Novartis Foundation focuses on influencing population health policy and actions. Our work is enabled by the power of data, digital and AI.

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CARDIO4Cities

The Novartis Foundation works with city authorities and other partners to co-design and implement data-driven responses to improve cardiovascular population health and narrow health inequities.
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AI4HealthyCities

We work with governments around the world to help shape the policy needed for safe, effective and inclusive integration of AI into health and care.
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AI4BetterHearts

This data collaborative offers a platform to merge and analyze cardiovascular health data to help stakeholders – ranging from decision makers to health providers or patients – make better decisions about heart health.
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HealthTech Innovation

We aim to catalyze a mindset shift among decision makers – fostering an understanding of how health technology innovation can change the way population health is improved, and how health and care are delivered.
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Population Health Toolkit

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About us

For over 40 years, Novartis Foundation initiatives have helped improve the health of low-income populations.
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Past Programs

For the past decade, our efforts centered on urban cardiovascular health, leprosy and malaria elimination, and digital health.
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