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In a Comment, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida emphasised the “strategic importance of undertaking efforts on human security and universal health coverage [UHC]” during Japan's G7 presidency this year.1 Kishida highlighted three health-related priorities to realise this vision: first, strengthening global health architecture through improved international governance and sustainable financing; second, advancing UHC in the post-COVID-19 era via health systems strengthening, including healthy and active ageing; and third, promoting health technology innovation. The Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative (DAC) supports these priorities. DAC is a public–private–patient venture, launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2021,2 that is transforming Alzheimer's research, prevention, and care in low-income, middle-income, and high-income settings globally. DAC's programmes support Kishida's vision in the following ways.

C) supports these priorities. DAC is a public–private–patient venture, launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2021,2 that is transforming Alzheimer's research, prevention, and care in low-income, middle-income, and high-income settings globally. DAC's programmes support Kishida's vision in the following ways. First, DAC helps to shift international norms in Alzheimer's research towards equity—diversifying cohort research in low-income and middle-income countries to increase discovery of targets for therapeutics and associated biomarkers in globally diverse populations.3 Second, DAC helps to ensure that healthy ageing is incorporated into UHC—facilitating the implementation of national, regional, and global commitments to future innovations in ageing societies. Lastly, DAC leverages emerging low-cost innovations via DAC's global technology platforms—establishing an open-access data platform, available to all researchers, linking and scaling existing research cohorts;4 and a new artificial-intelligence-aided global clinical trial system, reducing cost and time to bring new treatments to global markets. Kishida's principles of human security and UHC will not succeed without a new global commitment to a sustained, coordinated focus on healthier ageing. DAC is the public–private–patient mechanism to drive that focus.