From Breakthroughs to Impact: Who Tells the Story of Health Innovation and Who Shapes Its Access?
Diwakar Mittal, Director, Corporate Affairs at Novo Nordisk, Anushree Lakshminarayanan, Director of External Affairs, Policy, and Corporate Communications at MSD India, and Masooma Pathre, Director of Communications, Strategic Marketing Enterprise, EurAsia at Medtronic, join host Aman Gupta, Managing Partner at FINN Partners, for a Global Health and Purpose Summit conversation on health innovation, access, communications, policy advocacy, and trust.
The session examines why health innovation is no longer defined only by scientific breakthroughs. It is defined by whether those breakthroughs reach people, are trusted by communities, improve outcomes, and can be sustained by health systems and the planet. The panel explores how communications and policy advocacy move innovation from awareness to access, adoption, and measurable impact.
Drawing on examples from chronic disease, obesity, diabetes, stroke therapy, vaccines, HPV prevention, and public health misinformation, the conversation shows why evidence must reach the right stakeholders in the right language. Its central message is clear. Breakthroughs matter, but impact depends on the systems, stories, partnerships, and policy decisions that carry science into people’s lives.
Session Intelligence
This session examines health innovation through the lens of access, communications, policy advocacy, sustainability, patient-centered care, system readiness, misinformation, trust, and responsible impact. Its central insight is that innovation becomes transformative only when science, policy, communications, and partnerships work together to move breakthroughs from discovery to durable public health value.
Innovation as Impact
Health innovation must be measured by who it reaches, how it is trusted, and what outcomes it creates.
Access by Design
Discovery and approval are only the beginning; affordability, delivery, system readiness, and scale determine impact.
Policy and Communications
Communications and advocacy translate evidence into policy movement, stakeholder understanding, and adoption.
Trust and Credibility
In an era of misinformation, health leadership depends on consistency, transparency, evidence, and responsible storytelling.
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