Michał Dybowski, Chairman of the Healthcare Poland Foundation, has been selected as one of the mentors for the second edition of the Young Think Association’s flagship programme – Policy Briefs on Health. The culmination of several months’ work will be a conference on 16 July 2026 (4.30 pm–8.30 pm) at the Rotunda of PKO Bank Polski in Warsaw, during which 11 policy briefs developed through a crowdsourcing model by students from Polish and foreign universities will be presented. Healthcare Poland has assumed honorary patronage of the programme.
Since April 2026, programme participants have been developing recommendations for the healthcare system in four thematic areas: mental health, administration and digitalisation, training and education, and prevention. Michał Dybowski acted as a mentor in the area of administration and digitalisation – working alongside Lesław Skibiński and Agata Paweta to lead a team developing solutions relating, amongst other things, to the use of artificial intelligence in hospital management and the implementation of a centralised online registration system.
“Digitalisation and data are not ends in themselves – they are tools designed to guide us from measurement, through decision-making and implementation, right through to assessing the outcomes. This is precisely the way of thinking we have been learning together with the participants: to ensure that a recommendation does not end with good intentions, but has a measurable impact on the patient and on the system. Working with young people who combine expert knowledge with the courage to ask difficult questions is, for me, the best investment an organisation like ours can make today. They are the ones who will design and evaluate the healthcare system of the next decade.” – explains Michał Dybowski, Chairman of the Healthcare Poland Foundation.
Healthcare Poland’s involvement in the programme stems directly from the Foundation’s operating model, which functions as an ecosystem platform bringing together hospitals, regulators, innovators and investors around the practical, measurable implementation of healthcare solutions — including the responsible use of artificial intelligence and digital tools. Participating in the mentoring of young public policy makers is a natural extension of this mission.
During the conference, participants will present their work, and the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. Following the presentations, a panel discussion is scheduled on the topic ‘How can we build resilience in the healthcare system in the face of rising costs associated with an ageing population?’, featuring representatives from various sectors, including Igor Grzesiak (Institute for Patients’ Rights and Health Education), Wiktor Możarowski (Committee for Young Doctors at the Warsaw Medical Chamber) and Prof. Wioletta Pawlukowska. The Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) documents produced will be published as a comprehensive report following the conference.
Alongside Michał Dybowski, the programme’s mentors included, amongst others, Dr Aleksandra Lewandowska, MD (National Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), Prof. Łukasz Balwicki (National Consultant for Public Health), Prof. Paweł Koczkodaj and Dr Michał Brzeziński, PhD. The programme is held under the honorary patronage of, amongst others, the Medical University of Gdańsk, the Medical University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University Medical College, PARP, Wrocław University of Technology and Healthcare Poland. The PKO Bank Polski Foundation is the event’s strategic partner.
About the Healthcare Poland Foundation
The Healthcare Poland Foundation (HCPL) is an ecosystem platform that brings together hospitals, regulators, innovators and investors to facilitate the practical implementation of healthcare solutions. The Foundation acts as a regulatory sandbox operator, a regional coordinator for European healthcare projects (including HeliX and REHEAL), an organiser of industry events, and a provider of audits and certification in the areas of ESG, NIS2, the AI Act and MDR/IVDR. HCPL collaborates with international partners — including the International Hospital Federation (IHF), the REHEAL network, the Global Healthcare Systems Hub (GHSH) and the OECD — to strengthen Poland’s position within the European healthcare ecosystem. The Foundation’s mission is to translate knowledge and innovation into tangible, measurable implementations that improve the safety and quality of patient care.
