Roadmap
A roadmap for transforming obesity disease management
This comprehensive 44-page roadmap details how healthcare stakeholders can collaborate to transform obesity care. Download the full report for specific implementation strategies, and actionable steps your organization can take today to address systemic barriers.
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At a glance
Obesity management reform infographic
The infographic depicts the multi-faceted and complicated changes that will be required to effect transformation for most people living with obesity. No one solution area can bring about change on its own, but each solution area – from patient engagement, identification and diagnosis, to shared capability building, to integrated care—will be structures that support and strengthen one another as we all work toward a better future.
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The United States faces a paradox: obesity affects 40% of adults and costs $1.4 trillion annually, yet 96% of people with obesity never receive medical treatment. Traditional approaches have failed because they address isolated aspects of a complex, system-wide problem spanning provider bias, fragmented care delivery, misaligned incentives, and societal stigma.
NEWDIGS launched this initiative in early 2024 to develop the first comprehensive, systems-level solution. Over 18 months, we convened healthcare providers, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, patient advocates, and policymakers in intensive Design Labs to map challenges and pressure-test solutions. This collaborative approach ensured every stakeholder's constraints and motivations were understood and addressed.
The result is a practical roadmap with three integrated solution areas and 36 specific action components. Rather than theoretical recommendations, these are implementable strategies that recognize how different stakeholders must work together for sustainable change.
Moving forward, we're expanding the coalition of implementing organizations, and developing stakeholder-specific toolkits. Our goal is to create a movement where obesity is treated as the chronic disease it is, with coordinated care that works for patients, providers, and the entire healthcare system.