NEW GWI RESEARCH REPORT “Health, Happiness, and the Wellness Economy: An Empirical Analysis” The first-ever data on how spend in each wellness sector impacts happiness and health outcomes Global Wellness Institute (GWI) researchers unveiled the first global analysis of the relationship between wellness spending at the national level and happiness and health outcomes. Part of the GWI Wellness Policy Series that began with the groundbreaking Defining Wellness Policy report issued…
For more information, see GWI’s Wellness Policy Series. Key Findings WELLNESS AND HAPPINESS The wellness economy is strongly and positively correlated with happiness at the country level. In addition, many individual wellness sectors are strongly and positively correlated with happiness at the country level: workplace wellness, wellness real estate, healthy eating, physical activity, thermal/mineral springs, wellness tourism, and public health and prevention. The strength of…
When medicine meets movement, miracles happen. Here’s why the wellness community must champion exercise oncology—and how my 40-year cancer journey proves it works. I’ve spent four decades in cancer’s shadow—first supporting my mother through breast cancer at age 13, then my sister, then facing my own triple-negative diagnosis at 54. But here’s what shocked me most: the medical establishment is only now discovering what the…
Smartphones, AI and Rising Unwellness By Thierry Malleret, economist Malleret discusses NYU Professor Arpit Gupta’s recent argument for “the smartphone (and social media) theory of everything.” Put simply, he posits that the widespread use of smartphones and social media (that began around 2011) are a major cause of unhappiness in individuals and larger problems across society. The fact that so many observable negative trends began…
Wellness Real Estate & Communities 2025 Speakers From top developers expanding the boundaries of real estate to legendary architects to innovators of new standards and technologies, the speakers at the 2025 Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium represent the top minds shaping the future of this exploding sector. Join us for this unique opportunity to learn from and network with the top executives, developers, designers,…
Touch, our most complex sense, is a landscape of cellular sensors–Quanta Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s complex tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty, head of the neurobiology department at Harvard Medical School, has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations. His work has given him a deeper appreciation of this sense we so…
