Wasu Mekniran

Dr. Wasu Mekniran is a preventive care financing and digital health affiliated with the ETH Zurich and the Centre for Digital Health Interventions (CDHI) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). His work bridges academic innovation, health system viability, and market incentives to scale disease prevention and healthy longevity interventions. He is the architect of the EDEN platform (Economic Design & Evaluation for Digital Prevention), addressing stakeholder alignment, value-based reimbursement, and blended financing mechanisms across public health systems. Dr. Mekniran earned his Ph.D. in Financial Engineering in Healthcare from ETH Zurich, an MBA and M.Sc. from RWTH Aachen University, and a B.Eng. from Kyushu University. On the panel, he contributes perspectives on how novel financing mechanisms, risk-sharing frameworks, and preventive health business models can support the clinical translation and equitable adoption of preventive care.