Transform the system without creating a new one
The Consortium is grounded in a clear intervention thesis: reducing disease. It’s not trying to rebuild the healthcare system, but to reorient it starting from its current pressures, its unrealized potential, and levers that remain largely underused.
Bring about results at every stage of the process
The Consortium is not a fixed program or a single answer to the system’s challenges. It acts as a structured intervention framework within which concrete, context-specific results emerge step by step.
Combine expertise to open new and unexpected pathways
The approach is grounded in the hybridization of knowledge: healthcare professionals, researchers, users, artists, entrepreneurs, local communities… Bringing these perspectives together makes it possible to think differently and activate levers that are often overlooked.
A governance model that structures experimentation
The Consortium relies on two committees that ensure the stability of the process and support innovation :
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a Knowledge Committee that fuels collective intelligence, and
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an Investment Committee that supports high-potential projects.
Expected outcomes and intended transformation
Our healthcare system remains focused on care delivery, even though reducing disease would lower costs, strengthen system resilience, and improve quality of life. The data makes it clear that action is urgent, disease reduction must return to the center of our priorities.
Prevention remains severely underfunded
Health spending keeps rising
The cost of chronic disease is soaring
The wellness economy is gaining ground worldwide
2 %
of the health budget goes to prevention.
It is a major imbalance: most resources are still directed toward treatment, at the expense of upstream levers that are proven to be effective.
60 G$
are allocated to healthcare in Quebec in 2024.
With chronic diseases increasing, prevention becomes a necessity for public health as much as for financial sustainability.
+72 %
increase in the costs associated with chronic diseases between 2010 and 2030.
This long-term trajectory is unsustainable and makes it essential to strengthen upstream action.
6 800 G$
represents the size of the global wellness economy in 2024.
A fast-growing sector that provides practical ways to rethink how we approach health and to put prevention first.
Reducing disease: an imperative for our healthcare system
The Consortium brings together Quebec’s leading strengths in healthcare, research, technology, and investment.
Adopt desirable future scenarios to steer actions toward disease reduction.
Co-create new narratives and action plans to shape a healthier society.
Mobilize innovation in support of disease prevention and prediction
Integrate technology and behavioral levers to anticipate and prevent illness at every level from individuals to communities to the full healthcare system.
Strengthen stakeholders’ ability to take action across the healthcare system
Help stakeholders take ownership of tools and solutions that change how they approach health.
Enable the emergence of a health economy in Quebec built on disease reduction
Support high-impact pilot projects that lay the foundation for a prevention-driven economy.
Our 4 objectives
PROMOTION
Empower individuals and communities to improve their well-being through education, health policies, and supportive behaviors.
PROTECTION
Prevent health and environmental risks through surveillance and proactive measures.
PREVENTION
Reduce the incidence of diseases through early detection and the reduction of risk factors.des facteurs de risque
PREDICTION
Anticipate health trajectories through data analysis in order to intervene before problems appear.
PARTICIPATION
Actively involve citizens, communities, and stakeholders in health decisions.
PERSONALIZATION
Adapt interventions and treatments to the specific characteristics of each individual or population.
PRECISION
Provide the right intervention at the right moment by mobilizing genetic, environmental, and behavioral data.
Reducing disease in 7 key areas
Our Partners
The Consortium brings together five leading forces of change in healthcare across Quebec.
ASPQ champions public health prevention; OBVIA mobilizes interdisciplinary research; QIS drives on-the-ground transformation in care delivery; Numana connects technological innovation with the health network; and Capital Créatif supports high-impact initiatives.
Call for Collaboration
The Consortium brings together people committed to evolving the system.
Whether you’re a researcher, healthcare professional, institutional leader, business, municipality, or community organization, you can help build tomorrow’s pathways.
4 reasons to invest in disease reduction
Because a society burdened by disease is a vulnerable society
Quebec is facing multiple public health challenges, including an aging population, the rise of chronic diseases, and growing social inequalities. According to the Institut de la statistique du Québec, by 2030 one in four people will be over the age of 65. This demographic shift will be accompanied by an increase in chronic diseases affecting all generations. These trends create a major challenge for both the quality of life of the population and the capacity of the healthcare system to adapt.
A network of committed partners
FUTURE OF HEALTH
Reducing disease at the heart of a
sustainable healthcare model
The Quebec healthcare system is under pressure: rising costs, burned-out teams, and worsening health outcomes. Reducing illness is no longer optional, it’s essential to protect the system’s long-term sustainability and build a healthier society.
In response, the Quebec Health Innovation Consortium has set a clear ambition: strengthen the resilience of care delivery, improve quality of life across the population, and create new collective prosperity grounded in sustainable health. In practical terms, the Consortium is rolling out place-based, population-tailored health pathways that activate the 7 key determinants of disease reduction.
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4th floor, suite 500
914, Notre-Dame West street
Montreal (Québec) H3C 1J9
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