The diversification of threats, and the people behind them, are generating new challenges for the defence and security communities, and to society as a whole.

Trend: Future battlefields A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already in various ways within certain groups...

Trend: Live Forever (Ageing/NCDs/Covid) A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already in various ways within certain...

Trend: Keep calm and carry on, but also ‘be prepared’ A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already...

Health is challenged by the emergence of new infectious diseases that are spreading in our increasingly connected world and by diseases that are resistant to antibiotics.

Good mental health is a central part of overall health and well-being.

Big data, new technologies and people-centred approaches in healthcare are promising new predictive, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches that are becoming even more personalised.

There is increasing realisation that health is a multifactorial outcome with strong causal links to the environment in which humans live.

Digitalisation is bringing changes to society that offer both opportunities and challenges for health.

Science and better living standards have reduced infectious diseases. Unhealthy lifestyles, pollution and other anthropogenic causes are turning into health burdens.