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Somewhere between the big conversation and what happens next, there is a room where the work gets done. That room is the Collective Impact House. On 12 October, a deliberately small group will come together to work through three challenges that cannot be solved from a single perspective: Patient leadership How do we move from listening to patients to giving lived experience real influence over decisions? AI and digital health How do we make sure the technologies shaping healthcare are shaped with the people they are meant to serve? Sustainable health How do we unlock the value of solutions that already exist, but still struggle to reach people at scale? Different expertise. Different lived realities. Different points of view. The point is not to find easy agreement. It is to create the conditions for better questions, sharper thinking and decisions that can move beyond the room. Hosted by The Synergist, in collaboration with PFMD, Patient Movement Catalyst and Sustainable Health Catalyst, the Collective Impact House is designed for participation, not observation. With space for 30 participants, the House is built for contribution. While global conversations unfold across the street and shape the agenda, we work out how to move it forward. The people shaping what comes next will be in the room. Will you? Register your interest to be part of the Collective Impact House: https://lnkd.in/evvy8fWt #CollectiveImpact #PatientEngagement #DigitalHealth #SustainableHealth #HealthSystems Rebecca Vermeulen | Jennifer Austin | Mandy Sandkuhler | Leanne West | Liz Clark | Alan Balch | Danie du Plessis | Jennifer Bright | Randall Rutta | Ravi Ram | Professor Lara Bloom | Dani Mothci | Daniela Castro Rojas

Real healthcare transformation doesn't happen in auditoriums. It happens when leaders step up to the working table. 🤝 Across the globe, health systems are reaching a tipping point—not for lack of scientific brilliance, but because our delivery mechanisms have stalled. Unlocking the full value of existing health solutions requires a fundamental shift: moving away from isolated initiatives and sitting down together to dismantle shared implementation friction. That is why we built the Collective Impact House in Berlin. Not to host another panel or deliver speeches, but to create a hands-on, human-scale space where civil society, patient advocates, policymakers, and global industry executives gather on equal footing to move from dialogue to action. We are thrilled to welcome leaders like Teresa Harris Graham (CEO of Roche Pharma) alongside patient champions and health system innovators Ravi Ram, Daniela Rojas Castro, Brian O'Mahony, Simone Mancini, Amanda Bok, Hayley Chapman, Professor Lara Bloom, Dani Mothci, Tonya Winders, John Coughlan into our morning working sessions. Leaving titles at the door, this group will sit around the same table to focus on a shared goal: replacing short-term cost mindsets with long-term, high-return health investments. True collective impact isn't built in isolation. It takes everyone in the ecosystem rolling up their sleeves together. 💬 What is the single implementation barrier in global health you want leaders to act on this week? Drop your one-liner below - we will physically print your perspective and add it to our Collective Canvas inside the House. #CollectiveImpact #HealthSystems #SustainableHealth #WHS2026 #CollectiveAction

Live at SCOPE Europe Barcelona: Transforming Clinical Data Strategy & AI Innovation. On October 13 at 09:30 AM, Clinical Trial Distribution Network (CTDN)’s leadership team takes the stage at SCOPE Europe to address a critical industry challenge: how open, machine-readable data infrastructure unlocks AI innovation and patient access. Session Details: 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2026 | 09:30 AM 📍 Track: Clinical Data Strategy and AI Innovation 📍 Venue: InterContinental Barcelona (Fira Center) 🎙️ Speakers: Barbara Argibay & Nicholas Brooke Whether you want to eliminate protocol data silos, pilot USDM/FHIR data streams, or explore collaborative partnerships, our team is booking 1:1 meeting slots throughout the conference. 👇 Click below to register your interest or DM us directly. https://shorturl.at/OykMf Nicholas Brooke Nersey Rastan Griet Goddemaer Barbara Argibay Maddalena Benivento Ionut-Alexandru Rotaru Rob DiCicco Janice Chang Chris Decker Jasmine LaCoursiere Wiebke Raven, M.A. Akshaya (Ashley) Iyer Bill Illis Bert Hartog Jean-Sébastien Gosuin Brian Alper Sarah Tremethick Cara Rinaldi Kevin Grassi Rebecca Vermeulen

Some of the most important opportunities in healthcare may be closer than we think. The challenge is turning proven potential into impact at scale. Across health systems, effective solutions are available, from diagnostics to care pathways. Yet systemic friction can keep these advances from reaching the people who need them. The consequences are significant: avoidable harm for patients, alongside unnecessary costs and inefficiencies for health systems. The question, therefore, is not what we need to invent next, but what is preventing existing solutions from being adopted, connected, and sustained. This is the challenge at the heart of the Sustainable Health Catalyst (SHC), currently in incubation. The initiative is exploring how to move beyond fragmented, disease-specific approaches and addressing the common barriers that hold adoption back across health systems. At the Collective Impact House, Emilie Luciani, Program Director at The Synergist, will bring this challenge into a 90-minute working session: From Unrealised Impact to Sustainable Health: Unlocking the Value of Solutions We Already Have. The working session will serve as an accelerator for the Sustainable Health Catalyst, bringing stakeholders together to: • Identify common, cross-cutting adoption barriers • Co-design shared expectations across stakeholders • Identify opportunities for collective action • Unlock more of the human and economic value of existing and future innovation Hosted by The Synergist, the Collective Impact House brings together patient leaders, civil society, policymakers, innovators, funders and other health-sector stakeholders to work through complex challenges while solutions and strategies are still taking shape. For SHC, this session is a starting point for a wider coalition around a simple but consequential shift: from continuously pursuing the next new solution to unlocking the value of the solutions we already have. Register your interest to learn more about the session and the emerging SHC coalition: https://lnkd.in/eFQaXYwY #SustainableHealth #HealthSystems #Implementation #HealthInnovation #CollectiveImpactHouse Nicholas Brooke | Amanda Bok | Helena Harnik, MBA | Derick Mitchell | Hayley Chapman | Amel Gaaloul | Daniela Castro Rojas | Tonya Winders | Professor Lara Bloom | Jessica Hicks | Damien Fagan | Natasha Lorch | Stine Moll Hansen | Vanessa Pott Semêdo | Ravi Ram | Dr. Johanna Offe

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." – W.B. Yeats When our health systems, the centre so many depend on, threaten to give way, who rushes in to hold them together? Often it's the people most affected: unseen, but always there, bringing the insight that only lived experience can give. Next week in Berlin, The Synergist.org hosts our Collective Impact House alongside the World Health Summit (theme: 'From Crisis to Resilience'). It's a safe and brave space where PFMD, Patient Movement Catalyst and the emerging Sustainable Health Catalyst come together to build resilience 'from the patient out'. In addition to a timely session on value and investment (see Hayley Chapman's blog 'Patient leadership is essential infrastructure for investing in sustainable health'), PMC is also enabling a culminating House session where health civil society meets as a whole sector to craft a resilience-minded partnership proposal to health decision-makers. Because what holds a centre together is not its walls. It's the people. And our antidote is collective. Read my full reflection here 👇 #WorldHealthSummit #WHS2026 #PatientEngagement #HealthSystems #CollectiveImpact #LivedExperience Ravi Ram Professor Lara Bloom Dani Mothci Daniela Rojas Castro Nicola Bedlington Catherine Moura, MD, MPH, MSc, PX Leader Marc Boutin Randall Rutta Ritu Jain Jennifer Austin Tamás Bereczky PhD Jennifer Bright Nicholas Brooke Tonya Winders Brian O'Mahony Rebecca Vermeulen Samantha Knott Vanessa Pott Semêdo Holger Bartos Kersten Sharrock, M.S. Amy Akers Teets Sofie Lyna Andrew Garvey Richie Castles Clémentine Bizot Ylenia Paleari Amel Gaaloul Marian Ivan Sophie Thaon Teresa Harris Graham Emma Doble Dimitra Panteli Dheepa Rajan Gabriele Pastorino Kalipso Chalkidou

How can patient communities and leaders help us build more resilient, sustainable health systems? There is much we can learn together, and much we can put into action. Patient communities see how decisions connect across services, where gaps leave people without support, and how pressures on health systems ripple through families and communities. Their knowledge and lived experience can help us challenge assumptions, identify priorities and direct resources towards solutions that work in people’s lives. If we want to invest in sustainable healthcare, we need to build the investment case together with the people who understand where value is needed and what it will take to deliver it. This blog explores how we can bring that knowledge into decisions about our health systems, and how we can better support patient leaders to contribute and lead. These questions will also shape our conversation at the Collective Impact House alongside the World Health Summit in Berlin next week, bringing patient, civil society and industry leaders together to learn from one another and explore what we can do together to build a more resilient, sustainable path forward. 👉Use this form to express your interest in joining the conversation and contributing beyond the Summit: https://lnkd.in/gfnJXpvw #PatientLeadership #FromCrisisToResilience #SustainableHealth #CollectiveImpact #WHS2026 Professor Lara Bloom Ritu Jain Emma Doble Nicola Bedlington Daniela Rojas Castro Catherine Moura, MD, MPH, MSc, PX Leader Dani Mothci Ravi Ram Marc Boutin Randall Rutta Jennifer Austin Vanessa Pott Semêdo Holger Bartos Rebecca Vermeulen Stephanie Ludwig Andrew Garvey Richie Castles Kersten Sharrock, M.S. Sofie Lyna Tonya Winders Jasmine Greenamyer Lugdivine Le Dez Laura Christen Marta Karasek-Pisarska Amanda Bok Derick Mitchell Nicholas Brooke Emilie Luciani Ylenia Paleari Sophie Thaon Clémentine Bizot Amel Gaaloul