Welltech1, an Israeli wellness technology fund, just called on start-ups across the wellness technology space to apply for up to $200,000 in investment. The fund seeks seed-stage companies innovative ideas in wellness, healthy living and disease prevention that our pandemic and post-pandemic world will need most. The funding was launched in partnership with the GWI’s The Wellness Moonshot: A World Free of Preventable Disease. Applications are…
(Really understanding) The first modern pandemic – The Blog of Bill Gates, April 23, 2020 This is a great read by Bill Gates to make sense of the overabundant information about COVID-19. The epidemiological situation changes every day and makes it incredibly hard to grasp all the ideas and policy proposals we read and hear about. Some parts of the article are fairly technical, but…
Beth McGroarty, VP, Research & Forecasting, Global Wellness Institute asks: What is the state and role of faith in the Coronavirus crisis? How might concepts of faith and spirituality evolve in the future? What’s wrong with the current “science” versus “religion” war? Q&A with Martin Palmer, president of FaithInvest, an organization that helps the world’s religions move their investments into sustainable development. Martin Palmer is…
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and with the coronavirus epidemic it’s an event unlike any other before: all digital. Throughout today, Earth Day Network will flood the Internet with global conversations, performances and video teach-ins from inspiring musicians, artists, scientists and thinkers – with a new call to action every hour. Today we face two crises: the COVID-19 pandemic and climate disaster.…
Daily Meditation Reduces Anxiety & Boosts Cognitive Function in 8 (Not 4) Weeks A new study from NYU split people who hadn’t meditated before into two groups: One did 13 minutes of daily guided meditation, and the other listened to a 13-minute podcast. At four weeks, there was no significant difference between the groups, but eight weeks proved a different story: The meditators saw significantly…
The GWI’s PositivelyWell campaign just kicked off a new interview series with wellness leaders on how the Coronavirus is impacting wellness markets and how wellness will likely evolve in a post-virus world. The first interview is with famed architect and designer Bill Bensley who discusses how the travel industry will change after the epidemic (predicting that the “old luxury will be deader than a doornail”),…
