World-class ideas are wasted if the world isn’t ready for them.
The EIT Health Think Tank – our thought leadership forum – brings healthcare leaders together to prepare the ground for life-changing innovation and identify the next opportunity for a step-change in how healthcare is delivered. We collaborate across disciplines and borders to explore and assess the most pressing topics impacting healthcare innovation today.
How do we explore these topics?
We explore them through meaningful dialogue with both internal and external experts in the respective fields. To facilitate this dialogue and its findings, EIT Health drives a range of activities; from our Round Table Series, to publications, opinion pieces and discussion videos.
Through our Round Table Series we invite multidisciplinary regional and national leaders in healthcare to discuss a topic high on the European health innovation agenda. Research gathered throughout this process is collated with Round Table discussions and published as reports.
What's new in Think Tank?

Explore our interactive ‘Transforming healthcare with AI’ Hub where you can view the ideas, debate and hot topics from our latest Think Tank 2020 Round Table Series: Healthcare Workforce and Organisational Transformation with AI – Enacting Change. The content in each virtual ‘room’ centres on one of six key domains identified as levers for change to drive greater acceptance and utility of AI within healthcare – from leadership, to risk management, to policy – culminating in our final report. As new content becomes available, new rooms will light up, ready to explore.
Take part
Help drive the EIT Health thought leadership agenda. Do you have insight and expertise into the health innovation hot topics affecting Europe now and in the future? Get in touch to:
- Nominate a topic for our forum
- Write an opinion piece
- Share research insights
- Join local Round Table Meetings
Opinion Pieces
Read expert perspectives on key thought leadership topics across healthcare.
Paying for prevention: how do we do it?

Prof. dr. Lieven Annemans, Professor Economics of…
Pandemics, nurses and older people – how do we plan for the future?

By Prof Dr Paul De Raeve, Secretary…
Five steps to futureproofing Europe’s health innovation pathway in the digital age

By Jan-Philipp Beck EIT Health CEO
AI: How will it impact the healthcare workforce?

Jorge Fernández García, Director of Innovation at…
How do we break the chain of chronic disease?

Isma Benattia, M.D., MBA is European Medical…
COVID-19 pandemic: What lessons are we learning?

Alexander von Gabain, EIT Health Supervisory Board…
Where are we now with integrated healthcare?

Ursula Redeker, EIT Health Supervisory Board Member
Preventing innovators from falling at the next hurdle

John Collins, Chief Operating Officer of CIMIT
AI and health: Reaping rewards while addressing ethical concerns

Roberto Viola, Director General of DG CONNECT,…
Why start-ups need backing to break into medtech

Dr. Kurt Höller, EIT Health Director of…
Health innovation: What does education have to do with it?

Ursula Mühle, Director of Education at EIT…
EIT Health Think Tank: Clearing the path to innovation

Sameena Conning EIT Health Director of External…
Digital solutions in the management of diabetes

Prof. Dr. Freimut Schliess talks collaboration and…
Public Involvement: Nothing about us without us

Ania Henley Public Involvement Advisor at Imperial…