Ready for Tomorrow – How Data Can Help Us Live Healthier Lives

How can data-driven prevention help prevent diseases before they develop? Recent findings show that 55 percent of cardiovascular diseases, 45 percent of dementia cases, and 40 percent of cancer cases are linked to modifiable risk factors.

Data from research, healthcare, registries, or wearables open up new possibilities for more effective prevention. But what data is relevant? What is already possible today? And what legal and ethical questions does the use of sensitive health data raise?

We’ll be discussing this with experts from academia, politics, and the field. The focus will be on the opportunities and challenges of data-driven prevention for the health of tomorrow.

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The event is part of “Fit for Tomorrow! Health for All Through Data-Driven Prevention,” a joint dialogue series organized by the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering, the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as part of the Year of Science 2026 – Medicine of the Future. The Science Years are an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space in collaboration with Wissenschaft im Dialog.