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Every year, children across the Gulf are treated for headaches, nausea or clumsy walking, symptoms so ordinary they rarely raise alarm. But sometimes these signs point to something far more serious.

FTI Consulting’s Oussama Nicolas, Senior Managing Director and Middle East Health & Life Sciences Practice Leader, and Tara Makarem, Senior Managing Director, discuss a new Preventive Health Readiness Index designed to measure whether health systems have the underlying capabilities to prevent future health burdens, rather than simply tracking spending or outcomes.

Dr Meshari Alwashmi, CEO and co-founder of Amplifai Health, discusses why the technology is built to sharpen human judgement rather than replace it, how it fills a gap left by conventional sports-tracking tools, and where he sees Thermal Intelligence heading next, from elite sport into everyday preventive health. 1. What drew you personally to thermal imaging, and how would you explain to someone outside medicine what it can tell us about the body?