Global Health Atlas Announces 100,000-Mile Expedition Across 100 Countries to Help Build the World's Most Accessible AI Health Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — October 2026 — Global Health Atlas (GHA), a nonprofit initiative dedicated to advancing human health and longevity, today announced plans for a 100,000-mile research expedition across 100 countries beginning February 2028.

The ambitious mission will support the development of a free, AI-powered personal health platform designed to give individuals worldwide greater control over their health information and access to personalized preventive health guidance, regardless of geography or income.

The initiative is led by Hunter Ziesing, a healthcare entrepreneur, philanthropist, endurance athlete, and pilot. Ziesing previously co-founded Longevity Health and is now a co-founder of Precision Health Corp, a healthcare company focused on improving patient outcomes through preventive medicine, technology, and more effective integration with established healthcare providers.

His work at Precision Health and his philanthropic mission through Global Health Atlas share a central conviction: The future of healthcare lies in preventing disease, empowering patients with their own health information, and using artificial intelligence to make physicians more effective—not replacing them.

From Treating Disease to Preventing It

For decades, healthcare has largely operated around diagnosing and treating illness after symptoms appear. Despite enormous advances in medicine, patients often lack a complete understanding of their health, with medical records fragmented across hospitals, physicians, laboratories, and insurers.

Artificial intelligence now offers an opportunity to fundamentally change that model.

Global Health Atlas envisions a free application that securely brings together an individual's medical history, laboratory results, prescriptions, wearable-device data, and lifestyle information into a single, continuously updated personal health record.

An AI-powered health companion would help users understand their information, monitor meaningful changes, identify potential health risks, encourage healthier behaviors, and determine when professional medical attention may be appropriate.

Rather than replacing physicians, the platform is intended to complement existing healthcare systems, providing continuous support during the thousands of hours each year when patients are outside a doctor's office.

"Silicon Valley has spent billions trying to disrupt healthcare by replacing physicians and traditional medical infrastructure," said Ziesing. "But healthcare is much more than an algorithm. The real opportunity is to use AI to make existing healthcare more effective while giving every person on Earth access to the knowledge and tools needed to manage their own health. And we believe that access should be free."

A Sustainable Model: Free for Consumers, Valuable to Healthcare Innovators

Unlike traditional digital health companies that depend on consumer subscriptions, Global Health Atlas is exploring a model in which individuals receive personalized health intelligence for free, supported by philanthropy, technology partnerships, and carefully structured commercial relationships.

The opportunity extends well beyond health monitoring.

With consumer permission, the platform could connect individuals with relevant clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, preventive programs, and health products based on their specific needs.

A patient with diabetes might discover an appropriate glucose-monitoring device. Someone with a rare genetic condition might learn about a clinical trial. Another individual might benefit from a preventive screening or treatment previously unknown to them.

For healthcare companies, this creates a potentially powerful way to reach consumers who may genuinely benefit from their innovations, rather than relying on expensive, broad-based marketing.

Importantly, Global Health Atlas is committed to a model in which individuals control their identifiable medical information, personal health data is not sold, and commercial relationships do not influence independent health guidance. Any matching or referrals would require appropriate consent, privacy safeguards, and regulatory compliance.

"The economics of AI are changing rapidly," Ziesing added. "As sophisticated health intelligence becomes dramatically less expensive, there is an opportunity to provide it free to consumers while creating enormous value for the healthcare ecosystem. We should be able to align commercial incentives with better health outcomes rather than simply generating more healthcare transactions."

A 100-Country Expedition to Understand Human Health

The Global Health Atlas expedition will travel approximately 100,000 miles across six continents, using a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft as a planned mobile research and outreach platform.

Beginning in February 2028, the mission will engage physicians, researchers, public-health leaders, technology innovators, and communities to explore the factors that contribute to longer, healthier lives.

Research will examine nutrition, physical activity, sleep, genetics, environmental conditions, culture, community, mental health, and access to medical care.

A central objective is to understand how AI-powered healthcare can be adapted to vastly different populations, languages, economic circumstances, and healthcare systems.

Recommendations appropriate for someone living in California may be impractical or inaccessible to someone living in rural India, Africa, or Southeast Asia. Global Health Atlas aims to help bridge those differences by incorporating real-world cultural and environmental context into personalized health guidance.

The expedition will also support the planned Health Pilot podcast and documentary programming, featuring conversations with scientists, physicians, entrepreneurs, and public-health leaders around the world.

Building on Two Decades of Healthcare and Philanthropic Experience

Ziesing's commitment to preventive health grew from personal experiences with cancer and a career that has increasingly focused on improving health outcomes.

After leaving the financial services industry, he developed large-scale philanthropic initiatives supporting cancer research and treatment, including a national endurance cycling fundraising series.

He subsequently worked in healthcare technology and strategic partnerships before co-founding Longevity Health in 2024, with a focus on personalized medicine, health data, and longevity.

Today, as a co-founder of Precision Health Corp, Ziesing is helping advance a model that combines preventive medicine, AI-enabled technology, and established physician networks to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.

Global Health Atlas extends that philosophy to a global scale, pursuing a nonprofit approach to making personalized health intelligence accessible to populations that traditional healthcare systems and commercial technology companies have struggled to reach.

"At Precision Health, we are working to demonstrate how technology and preventive medicine can improve care within existing healthcare systems," Ziesing said. "Global Health Atlas takes that same fundamental philosophy worldwide. One addresses how healthcare is delivered. The other asks how we can give billions of people access to personalized health intelligence, including those who have little or no access to primary care."

Seeking Founding Global Partners

Global Health Atlas is seeking a select group of founding partners across artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, satellite communications, medical technology, wearable devices, pharmaceuticals, clinical research, philanthropy, and global health.

Potential collaboration areas include AI infrastructure, secure personal health data, global connectivity, clinical research, device integration, field research, and international distribution.

The long-term ambition is to establish a sustainable, universally accessible personal health platform capable of reaching billions of people.

"The next great healthcare innovation may not be another billion-dollar healthcare technology company," Ziesing concluded. "It may be a free application that helps billions of people understand their own health, prevent disease, and live longer, healthier lives. That is what we are setting out to build."

About Global Health Atlas

Global Health Atlas is a nonprofit global health research initiative dedicated to improving human health, longevity, and quality of life through artificial intelligence, scientific research, and international collaboration. Its mission is to help make personalized preventive health intelligence accessible to every person on Earth, regardless of geography or income.

The organization's planned 100-country expedition begins in February 2028.

Website: https://globalhealthatlas.org

About Hunter Ziesing

Hunter Ziesing is a healthcare entrepreneur, philanthropist, endurance athlete, and pilot. He is the founder of Global Health Atlas, former co-founder of Longevity Health, and current co-founder of Precision Health Corp. His work focuses on preventive medicine, health technology, longevity, and expanding access to personalized healthcare.

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