Healthspan Coalition Unites 300 Groups to Extend Healthy Years for All

The Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC) has achieved a significant milestone by uniting 300 cross-sector organizations, forming the world's largest alliance dedicated to advancing healthspan—the period of life spent in good health. This coalition brings together for-profit and not-for-profit entities, leveraging advances in geroscience and regenerative medicine through innovative policymaking, workforce development, and patient advocacy. Co-founder Bernard Siegel emphasized that reaching 300 organizations demonstrates healthspan has evolved from a niche cause into a unifying societal movement, aiming to make healthy longevity a universal reality rather than a privilege. HSAC serves as a marketplace for ideas and collaboration, connecting diverse stakeholders in aging biology, healthcare transformation, and social impact to shorten the distance between promising concepts and real-world solutions.

To drive its mission, HSAC has assembled advisory boards with leading experts across fields such as law, policy, ethics, science, medicine, data science, patient advocacy, and industry. These boards provide strategic insights to move healthspan to the center of public, scientific, and commercial discourse. The coalition raises public awareness through media platforms like the Healthspan Compass newsletter, written by award-winning science author Eve Herold, which translates complex scientific and policy issues for broad audiences. Co-founder Melissa King highlighted HSAC's role as a connective hub, linking historically siloed communities including academic research centers, health systems, biotech companies, patient organizations, and investors to catalyze collaborations that individual entities could not achieve alone.

HSAC's cross-sector structure is translating into tangible initiatives, such as participating in alliances with patient advocacy organizations to amplify patient narratives and ensure healthspan interventions reflect real-world needs. It connects stakeholders in emerging Healthspan Corridors, Longevity Hubs, and Innovation Districts, helping align local governments, universities, hospitals, startups, and investors around shared goals. For example, HSAC advises regional initiatives like the new Hawaii Healthspan Corridor, providing a bridge to national and international partners, best practices, and policy expertise. Additionally, it works with think tanks to advance innovative policy frameworks on gerotherapeutic regulation, clinical endpoints for aging biology, and healthspan-aligned reimbursement. Scientific Advisory Board co-chair Dr. Camillo Ricordi noted that aging biology is the common thread in conditions from diabetes to frailty, and HSAC creates an ecosystem to translate regenerative therapies into healthier lives for millions.