World Health and Ageing Report: Trans-disciplinary Observation Network (WHARTON)
 
The program is undertaken not only on conceptualization of global health and population ageing but also on good practices and other measures for experiencing healthy ageing, as well as strategic frameworks for tracking the evolving trends and taking public-health response. The team members and partner fellows have engaged tasks central to word health and ageing. Several core tasks include contemporary health economics and policies; moral dimensions of global health; cultural studies of bio-medicine and emerging bio-technologies; race, ethnicity, and health care disparities; and global health delivery. 
 
Following the launch in December 2021, three advisory expert committees (on health economics and policy, equity and healthy ageing, geroscience and biomedical technology) were established with three ad hoc working subgroups (for partnership, education and outreach, minorities and indigenous peoples), to facilitate the sharing of expertise and research initiatives.
 
This team is a trans-disciplinary and collaborative network. Our co-moderator is Jess Zenden, regional adviser in the EU-Asia project of Leadership and Ethics for Public Health and Development (LEPHD), and director of the WHARTON Subgroup on Partnership. The network works closely with researchers, education and health practitioners, members of government and non-government organisations, as well as policy makers interested in shaping best-practice, evidence-based policy, by inviting them in joining participatory exercise, views and contribution to develop and apply innovative tools for policy enforcement.
 
Professor George Zhang, a professor in global ethics, health economics and public health policy, has been elected as chairperson of the advisory expert committee on health economics and policy. Professor Zhang is co-chairperson of the EU-Asia project of Leadership and Ethics for Public Health and Development (LEPHD), and director of Ireland Institute of Technology Tralee’s Asia Centre. He also coordinates and leads other funded projects including the Global Ethics Alliance’s expert panel activities on Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethical Leadership (CSREL).
 
The outcome of this team’s work will be a think piece, a policy brief, or a project proposal on relevant issues. These research results would be used in a brief to inform policy and project responses to the global health and ageing challenges.  
 
The members were invited to join due to their expertise on all related aspects, including (but not limited to): 
 
Economic consequences of population aging;
Demography and sociology of aging;
Optimizing innovation strategies in the silver economy:
Impacts of older workers delaying retirement;
Sustainable health financing with an ageing population;
Ways to improve the active participation of older adults in the workforce;
Avoidable health and long-term care costs;
Health and social care near the end of life:
Living longer, and in better health;
Promoting the rights and inclusion of marginalized and under-represented populations and addressing the needs of the elderly in adversity;
Public health policy response to older people’s experiences and needs in optimizing opportunities;
Dlivering person-centred integrated care and primary health services responsive to older people;
Global best practice to providing high-quality, culturally competent support for healthy ageing;
Scientific understand of the molecular mechanisms that control aging;
Smart ageing-in-place with Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and technology adoption among the elderly;
Creating healthy active places and designing for age-friendly homes;
Health behaviors in old age;
Sustaining physical activity;
Fight against old-age loneliness and social isolation, and support social connections;
Social and cultural aspects of global health issues, and global health innovation;
Geroscience and Geriatric Medicines Strategy;
Combating ageism and addressing inequalities;
Social determinants of health and disparities in minority populations;
Fostering healthy ageing and long-term care;
Nurturing leadership and management of health services;
Original surveys, data collection, and qualitative research
 
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