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Who doesn’t want to live a happier, healthier life? While we’ve made incredible progress in human health over the past century, there’s so much more we can do to improve the quality of life for everyone. According to a new McKinsey Health Institute report, humanity has the potential to add as many as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life over the next decade—roughly six years per person on average. Explore the six shifts needed to make this a reality and be sure to download the full report.

— Katherine Tam, digital editor, New York

Image showing people from various ages gathered around as part of a community to illustrate how six years of higher quality life for everyone is within reach in the report titled “Adding years to life and life to years

Adding years to life and life to years

At least six years of higher quality life for everyone is within reach.

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“There are a number of new fellowships designed to help make the aerospace industry a more diverse and dynamic environment, and the individuals who become alumni of these fellowships are going to change the world. I really want to see space companies and agencies have equal representation of women and minorities.”

—Debra Facktor on the future of the space workforce in “Making aerospace ‘diverse and dynamic’: An interview with Airbus U.S.’s Debra Facktor”

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