Every day, millions of people search the internet for answers about their health — and every day, they’re met with conflicting information, sponsored content, and advice nobody can verify. AI is only speeding this up. The bigger issue underneath it all? Trust.

So a few weeks ago, we turned that question back to you: what are the health topics you actually want answered? Not the ones trending for clicks, but the ones that matter when you’re lying awake at 2 am, or sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, or wondering if that home remedy your aunt swears by is safe.

You told us what matters most in health, and those priorities are now shaping a year-long series of conversations. We begin this journey with First Check LIVE on July 1.

Here’s what rose to the top: 

Preventive Health and Longevity — the everyday choices that shape how well we age, long before anything goes wrong.

Screening and Early Detection — knowing what to look for, and when, so nothing slips through unnoticed.

Family Health Across Ages — the health of everyone around you, from yourself to your kids to your parents. 

Trust, Tech, and the Future of Health — how AI and technology are reshaping who and what we turn to for answers.

To us, these four pillars aren’t just categories; they are versions of things that people are doing all the time. Googling a symptom at midnight, second-guessing a home remedy, wondering if what they read in a forward or a saw in a video is actually true, putting off a screening because they are not sure if it’s necessary yet, or trying to figure out what’s normal for a parent’s age versus what needs a doctor’s attention. We realised that these are not small, isolated moments. But that they are happening to millions of people, every single day, often without having anyone to turn to for answers or clarity. 

First Check LIVE is our attempt to close that gap. Not just to tell people what’s false, but to help them get to what’s true, what’s useful, and what they should do to make better decisions about their health.

We designed it as a year-long series for a reason. Health isn’t a one-time briefing; it’s an ongoing set of decisions, and the questions evolve as your life does. So rather than a single event, we structured this as 12 monthly sessions, each built around one of these four pillars for a sustained, evolving conversation rather than a one-off.

Each month, we’re going deeper into one of these four pillars and giving it real time: a proper 90-minute conversation, not a quick explainer. We’ve thought about the structure carefully. A keynote opens up the topic, a panel brings in the perspectives a single voice would miss, a practical session turns all of it into something you can actually use, and there’s space at the end for your own questions, because the questions you bring are often the ones everyone in the room is quietly asking too. You leave each session with something concrete: a clearer answer, a practical step, or a new way of thinking about a health decision you’ll likely face someday.

It’s completely online, and deliberately so — you can join from work, home, or in between things, because we didn’t want geography or a packed calendar to determine who gets to be part of these conversations. And because the series runs across a full year, you can choose the topic that’s actually relevant to your life right now. Maybe it’s screening this month. A few months from now, it might be navigating your parents’ health.

We’re opening the series on July 1 with a curtain raiser on The Trust Audit: Health Information Pathways and the Future of Public Trust — free for everyone to attend. The idea is simple: come listen to the experts we’ve brought together, get a feel for what these conversations will actually be like, meet a few of the people who’ll be leading them through the year, and get a sense of which of these four health pillars speaks to you most right now. We’ll also be sharing a first look at the topics in store for the rest of the series.

Registrations for the July 1st curtain raiser are now open. You can request an invite here.

Watch this space for what’s coming next. 

Seven years ago, First Check began as a small nudge to pause, check, and ask one more question before you believe something about your health. This is that same nudge, just spoken out loud now, with a few more voices in the room.

Until next time!

Dr Sabba Mehmood
Co-founder and Director
DataLEADS and First Check

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