THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CHAIRS

Pioneering Leadership for the Future of Health

THE CHAIRS REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE PRESIDENT`S OFFICE AND THE SECRETARY GENERAL

WELCOME ABOARD

In a time defined by complex global challenges and unprecedented medical and technological progress, The Health Captains Chairs stand as a forward-thinking leadership concept dedicated to transforming health systems through interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and a holistic view of human and planetary wellbeing.

Strategic Leadership for Holistic Health

Each Health Captains Chair represents a dual leadership model, with a Chair and Co-Chair guiding their designated Chapter in alignment with the shared mission of The Health Captains Club (THCC). Their focus ranges from Healthy Longevity, Precision Medicine, and One Health Lifecare to Value-Based Healthcare and Digital Transformation. This leadership format ensures diversity of perspective, strategic dialogue, and shared accountability.

Driving Action Through Structured Collaboration

The Chair teams are supported by three structural layers: a five-person CORE Team, a fifteen-member Think Tank, and a fifty-member Brainpool. This framework provides strategic, scientific, and operational depth. Chairs coordinate initiatives across professional sectors, co-develop cross-border projects, curate events, and mentor emerging health leaders, turning chapter-level ambition into concrete outcomes.

Connecting Disciplines and Ecosystems

Through Topic Chairs, Twin Chairs, and Special Task Forces, Health Captains Chairs actively build bridges between sectors, regions, and paradigms. They foster convergence between disciplines like medicine, technology, public health, economics, and environmental science—catalyzing the “Medici Effect” by enabling innovation at the intersection of ideas and networks.

Thought Leadership and Ethical Governance

Chairs play a central role in shaping the thought leadership agenda of THCC. They help evolve frameworks such as the updated Health Captains Hippocratic Oath, advance ethical standards in digital medicine and genomics, and promote resilient One Health ecosystems in both urban and island contexts. They also represent THCC at international summits and influence the policy discourse through expert publications and high-level roundtables.

A Platform for Next-Generation Health Leadership

Serving as a Health Captains Chair is an opportunity to lead from the front. It is an invitation to take responsibility for guiding systemic transformation—whether through innovation programs, health equity initiatives, university partnerships, or policy advocacy. Chairs operate locally, nationally, and globally as part of a distributed leadership network driving the Sixth Kondratieff cycle: the Age of Health, Sustainability, and Human-Centered Innovation.

The Health Captains Chairs are not just roles—they are pathways to impact. They offer committed professionals across medicine, science, industry, and policy the chance to co-pilot a new era of health leadership defined by ethics, collaboration, and vision.

Join the mission. Shape the future of health.

THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB CHAIRPERSONS

“WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW”

EXPLORING THE UNEXPLORED

LEADERSHIP FOR EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH

“360º NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE VALUE-BASED LIFECARE POWERED BY NEW INNOVATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SUPER-CONVERGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES NAVIGATING US TOGETHER TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE HEALTH INDUSTRY”

WELCOME ABOARD

The healthcare industry faces significant challenges that require brain, courage, and a collaborative team approach. THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB embodies these qualities, bringing together diverse experts to innovate and drive meaningful change. Simply the place to be for developing forward-thinking solutions.

 

HEALTH CAPTAIN DR. HENNING SCHNEIDER

Attorney, Partner and Co-Chair Healthcare/Life Sciences
International Health Industry

Latham & Watkins