The UBS Global Family Office Report 2025 highlights a defining moment for global wealth: family offices, representing some of the world’s most influential investors, are increasingly focused on long-term resilience, diversification, and legacy. While geopolitical risks and market volatility dominate the headlines, family offices remain committed to investments that create enduring value across generations.
At the World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS), we see this as a unique opportunity to align capital with one of the most powerful drivers of wellbeing: healthcare and the urban built environment.
From Wealth Preservation to Health Creation
The UBS report shows that family offices are looking to balance risk with opportunity, particularly in alternatives, private markets, and impact strategies. WHIS provides a platform to channel these ambitions into projects that not only deliver financial return, but also build healthier, more resilient communities.
Healthcare is no longer confined to hospitals and clinics. It is embedded in cities, workplaces, schools, and public spaces. Research published in Nature this year confirms that something as simple as walkability in our built environment directly improves health outcomes. Designing for health creates shared value: reduced healthcare costs, increased productivity, stronger communities, and thriving local economies.
How Healthcare Projects Can Support
Family offices can play a pivotal role in advancing healthcare through WHIS by supporting:
- Healthy Ageing Clinics – Providing proactive, preventative care that reduces long-term health costs while improving quality of life.
- WHIS Cities Programme – Investing in walkable, green, and digitally enabled infrastructure that supports population health.
- Community Health Hubs – Integrating wellbeing services into neighbourhoods to reduce inequalities and support mental, physical, and social health.
- Innovation in Care – Backing start-ups and initiatives that bring precision health, digital therapeutics, and sustainable healthcare models to scale. These projects represent not only a financial opportunity but also a legacy opportunity—embedding family values of stewardship, care, and resilience into the fabric of communities worldwide.
The WHIS Call to Action
*“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of health through our cities and communities. By working with family offices, we can invest in healthcare projects that reduce inequalities, improve wellbeing, and create thriving local economies. Together, we can ensure health is not just treated, but created.” *— Gareth Presch, CEO, WHIS
Connect with WHIS
WHIS is engaging with family offices globally to co-design healthcare and urban health projects that deliver measurable outcomes for people, planet, and prosperity.
To explore how your family office can collaborate with WHIS and help build the next generation of healthier, more sustainable cities, please contact us at: 📧** gareth@whis.world**