Programme
Defining Precision Health
Precision health is a forward-thinking approach to healthcare that personalises prevention, diagnosis, and treatment based on each individual’s unique biological, lifestyle, and environmental data. Going beyond precision medicine, it leverages a life-long approach and enables earlier disease detection, targeted interventions, and continuous monitoring. As highlighted during the last edition the Radical Health Festival Helsinki, this approach represents a paradigm shift to prioritise predictive, proactive, preventive, and personalised healthcare. The 3rd edition now focuses on what it means to operationalise and deploy precision health at scale.
“Health systems around the world are at risk — facing ageing populations, chronic diseases on the rise, workforce shortages and burnouts, emerging climate change crises… The future of healthcare lies at the intersection of prevention, precision, and equity. Getting there will require a bold paradigm shift, and Radical Health Festival Helsinki is about rallying the changemakers that will lead this profound transformation.”
Pascal Lardier, Founding partner at éditohealth and content lead for Radical Health Festival Helsinki
A Paradigm Shift
We know early intervention works — it cuts long-term costs, optimises spending and supports long-term economic sustainability. But the real challenge is this: how do we transform a model so deeply anchored in reactive care —diagnosing and treating — into one that prioritizes prevention?
Radical Health Festival Helsinki 2026 is about demonstrating, with concrete examples from around the world, that this paradigm shift is not only possible, it is already happening. The event will explore various facets of this profound transformation:
- Innovating policy and regulatory frameworks;
- Rethinking healthcare finance and payment models;
- Enabling precision prevention while preserving privacy;
- Updating health data infrastructures;
- Leveraging artificial intelligence and emerging technologies;
- Engaging health and social care professionals as well as citizens;
- Fostering partnerships between governments, healthcare institutions, tech companies, and researchers;
- Bringing health beyond the medical setting;
- Leading, engaging, managing change.
We will explore these topics through 3 tracks
Ministerial Track
co-curated with the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, this track discusses the role of policy, regulation and health reform in shifting health systems´ focus to prediction, prevention and early detection.
Data and AI
co-curated with the Radical Health Foundation, this track dives into updating and leveraging health and social data infrastructures for precision health.
Health Unbound
co-curated with the City of Helsinki, this tracks explores how health is shaped largely outside traditional medical settings.
Present at Radical Health Festival Helsinki 2026?
If you are actively involved in deploying precision health and would like to share your initiative(s), your research, your technology or your lessons learned, please apply to present here.