health predictions for 2030 | Future timeline
Read healthcare predictions for 2030, a year that will see many health revolutions become public—some might save your life ... or even make you superhuman.
Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
health forecasts for 2030
- 250 million children worldwide are classified as obese, increasing costs on local healthcare systems. (Likelihood 70%)1
- Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands. 1
- Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions. 1
- Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses. 1
- Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands 1
- Deafness solved by triggering sensory receptor regrowth in the Atoh1 gene1
- Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions 1
- Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses 1
Forecast
In 2030, a number of health breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- Canadians born this year are forecasted to live four years longer than the previous generation due to improvements in healthcare and family planning. Likelihood: 60% 1
- Between 2022 to 2025, Canada enacts a universal, single-payer public pharmacare system worth $15 billion that will draft a national list of prescription medicines that will be covered by the taxpayer. Likelihood: 60% 1
- Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands 1
- Deafness solved by triggering sensory receptor regrowth in the Atoh1 gene 1
- Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions 1
- Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses 1
Prediction
Health related predictions due to make an impact in 2030 include:
- Moving from extreme life extension to immortality: Future of human population P6
- Future of beauty: Future of Human Evolution P1
- Experiencing tomorrow’s healthcare system: Future of Health P6
- Understanding the brain to erase mental illness: Future of Health P5
- End of permanent physical injuries and disabilities: Future of Health P4
- Tomorrow’s pandemics and the super drugs engineered to fight them: Future of Health P2