THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE
Division Overview
“The challenges are too big for any one single organization.”
Guided by this shared understanding, THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE serves as a dynamic think-and-do-tank platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and leadership development within the broader HEALTH CAPTAINS ALLIANCE. Our Institute is structured into five synergistic Divisions – each designed to foster strategic foresight, actionable insights, and scalable innovation for the future of sustainable, value-based healthcare and “360° Next-Generation Lifecare.”
Each Division operates as an autonomous yet interconnected sphere of expertise – empowering Health Captains to co-create solutions, shape ecosystems, and align strategies across sectors, disciplines, and geographies. Driven by intrinsic motivation and a spirit of voluntary engagement, members collaborate within these Divisions according to their unique capacities, visions, and passions.
1. Business Development Division
Accelerating Lifecare Innovation Through Entrepreneurial Synergies
This Division focuses on building the economic engines of the Lifecare transformation. By cultivating business models that align profitability with purpose, we enable sustainable investments in innovation, infrastructure, and human capital. The Business Development Division fosters partnerships across health, technology, finance, and life sciences to accelerate go-to-market strategies, health startups, and social enterprises committed to closing the healthspan-lifespan gap.
2. Strategy Studies Division
Navigating Complexity with 360° Strategic Intelligence
Strategic thinking is the backbone of health systems transformation. This Division brings together leaders and experts to explore long-term trends, emerging disruptions, and cross-sector opportunities. Through horizon scanning, systems thinking, and policy foresight, we shape comprehensive strategies to reimagine Lifecare – from sickcare systems to health-promoting societies.
3. Competitive Studies Division
Fostering Innovation Ecosystems through Global Benchmarking
To lead in Lifecare innovation, we must understand the global landscape. This Division benchmarks regional, national, and international best practices in healthcare delivery, digital health, medical education, and healthtech innovation. By identifying gaps and growth areas, we empower our members and partners to stay ahead of the curve and build competitive, resilient health ecosystems.
4. Convergence Studies Division
Integrating Science, Technology, and Society for Lifecare
At the heart of transformation lies convergence: where medicine meets AI, public health meets climate science, and prevention meets precision. This Division explores how converging disciplines and industries can create exponential value in Lifecare. We focus on transdisciplinary R&D, One Health, healthy longevity, and ecosystem design to prototype the future of integrated Lifecare models.
5. Synchronization Studies Division
Aligning Stakeholders, Systems, and Cultures for Collective Impact
Transformation requires orchestration. This Division investigates how to align multiple stakeholders – from hospitals to insurers, from innovators to regulators – around shared goals. Through synchronization science, network leadership, and cultural intelligence, we explore how to scale successful models across regions and nations – ensuring no one is left behind in the future of Lifecare.
Together First – A Transdisciplinary Movement
As an extension of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS COLLEGE and the larger HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB, our Institute operates within the framework: Synapting. Synchronizing. Scaling Together.
We build bridges between thought leaders and doers – across islands, institutions, generations, and disciplines – because the future of medicine and health cannot be built in silos. Through our Twin-Chapters, Topic-Chapters, Talent-Chapters, and Island-Chapters, we prototype collaborative models for Healthy Longevity and Lifecare that are scalable, sustainable, and inclusive.
We invite you – across all sectors and nations – to bring your input, your vision, and your leadership to our Divisions. Let’s create the future of health and medicine – Together First.
Join the Alliance | Shape the Future | Be a Health Captain
“FIRST be your own HEALTH CAPTAIN – for your Family, Friends, Colleagues and Employees in your Community as an Role Model for Healthy Longevity and as Concerend Citizen for sustainable Healthcare in your Town, your Region, on your Island”:
We all have the Privilege of being “The First Generation” on the Turning Point of Medicine from “Sickcare” in “Silos” towards “Lifecare” in scaleable “Ecosystems”:
Biological Aging triggered by the Molecular Hallmarks of Aging is the “Mother of all Diseases” and “Targeting Aging” is 21th Century Medicine: “Healthy Longevity Medicine is optimizing healthspan by targeting ageing processes across the lifespan” – we are at the Inflection Point of the Transformation from “Sickcare” towards “Lifecare” –
WHAT`S NEXT?
EXPLORING THE UNEXPLORED
“We don’t know what we don’t know”
“360º NEXT GENERATION LIFECARE POWERED BY NEW INNOVATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SUPER-CONVERGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES TOWARDS BUILDING AND SCALING TOGETHER A NEW SUSTAINABLE VALUE-BASED HEALTHCARE, HEALTHY LONGEVITY MEDICINE FOR ALL, BLUE ZONES COMMUNITY CARE AND ONE HEALTH LIFE CARE INDUSTRY”
THE TWIN CHAPTER SYSTEM OF THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB (5-15-50-150)
To scale success stories, solutions, innovations and new technologies towards sustainable Medicine and Health for the Transformation form “Sickcare” towards “Lifecare” we connect >5 x towards > 50 x two international Metropolregions as one Twin-Chapter @ THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB (THCC). The THCC-Twin-Chapter is started by a CORE-Team of max. 5 Members followed by a THINK TANK of max. 15 and a BRAINPOOL of max. 50 Members. The CORE of 5 is building the Chapter Strategy, Actionplans, White Papers, Policy Papers and other Publications. Twin-Chapters can expand towards Triplet-Chapters. The Chapter THINK-TANK and BRAINPOOL gives additional Input and Support building the Ecosystem of max. 2 x 150 HEALTH CAPTAINS together.
WELCOME ABOARD
THE TOPIC CHAPTER SYSTEM OF THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB (5-15-50-150)
To scale the Deep Dive of Next Generation Lifecare Topics towards success stories, solutions, innovations and new technologies for sustainable Medicine and Health for the Transformation form “Sick-Care” towards “Life-Care” we built several TOPIC-CHAPTERS @ THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB (THCC). The THCC-TOPIC-Chapter is started by a CORE-Team of max. 5 Members followed by a THINK TANK of max. 15 and a BRAINPOOL of max. 50 Members. The CORE of 5 is building the Chapter Strategy, Actionplans, White Papers, Policy Papers and other Publications. Twin-Chapters can expand towards Triplet-Chapters. The Chapter THINK-TANK and BRAINPOOL gives additional Input and Support building the Ecosystem of max. 150 HEALTH CAPTAINS together.
WELCOME ABOARD
THE TALENT CHAPTER SYSTEM OF THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB (5-15-50-150)
MENTORSHIP AND SUPPORT FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS
THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB will support the Next Generations with early Mentorship to optimize and support their University Studies, PhD´s and Start of their Career and to support their access towards University and Academic Medical Centers, Healthcare Providers, Health Industry, Health Sciences and Health Policy internationally at an early stage – by SYNAPTING and Knowledge Input towards 360º Next Generation Lifecare.
WELCOME ABOARD
THE ISLANDS CHAPTER SYSTEM OF THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB (5-15-50-150)
FROM ISLAND-CENTERED TOWARDS WORLD-CENTERED
“Islands are the frontal zones of the earth in which the main problems of development and environmental change become apparent” Quote from Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations (United Nations 1999). More than 20 Million Europeans are Islanders – about 4-5% of the EU Population lives on Islands. Worldwide we have about 11.000 inhabited Islands. Though building scaleable 360º Lifecare Prototyp Platforms on Islands will bring the Proof of Contest towards the scaleabilty of Solutions to every Region and Metropol worldwide. Therefore THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB is building by his Patronage History of Kos and Föhr Island also some Islandchapters like
“HEALTH” = DOCTORS ISLAND KOS = THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB Islandchapter KOS
“CAPTAINS” = CAPTAINS ISLAND FÖHR = THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB Islandchapter FÖHR-AMRUM-SYLT
WELCOME ABOARD
“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”
AFFILIATES TO THE CLUB
OUR ALLIES
