- make the case for prevention
Telos
Telos is Rypple's decision-support tool for policymakers and investors - forecasting disease burden, quantifying ROI, and simulating impact of actionable preventive intervention policies on treatment cost and economic productivity.
- health-ing is powerful. telos proves it.
Core capabilities
Decision support at every level
Telos is a comprehensive decision-support tool that helps policymakers and investors quantify the ROI and social return of prevention. By simulating equity, sustainability, and disease burden, Telos proves the power of health-ing and accelerates the global shift from sickness to proactive health.
Forecasts disease burden & savings
Simulates morbidity, mortality, and the long-term economic cost of inaction — giving you a clear baseline before any intervention is designed or funded.
Quantifies ROI & social return
Goes beyond GDP to model fiscal return on investment, absenteeism savings, QALY gains, and wellbeing metrics like the Doughnut Economics framework and GINI Index.
Simulates equity & sustainability
Runs "what-if" scenarios for policy combinations, modelling their equity impact and long-term sustainability across populations — including combined policies like tobacco tax and marketing restrictions.
built for
Governments
Health economists
Public health agencies
Academics
Corporations
NGOs & foundations
Levels of analysis
From national policy to company strategy
Telos operates at four levels of analysis, using smart proxies where direct data is unavailable — so no context is too data-scarce to model.
country
National health systems, prevention policies, and macroeconomic contexts. Compare across countries using standardised proxies established for data-scarce contexts.
state / region
Sub-national health systems and regional policies. Model the impact of localised interventions within a national framework.
city / municipality
Local interventions, urban health programmes, and municipal policies — from clean air schemes to community nutrition initiatives.
company / industry
Workplace health and industry regulations. Model the ROI of corporate wellness programmes and sector-wide prevention initiatives including industry impact modelling.
Outputs
The metrics that matter to decision-makers
Telos delivers KPIs tailored to your context — from macroeconomic impact to hospital admissions prevented. Every output is mapped to a priority level so stakeholders can focus on what's most critical and drill down as needed.
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High priority KPIs
macroeconomic impact
morbidity rate change
mortality rate change
fertility rate change
healthy years (QALY)
cost per healthy year
beyond GDP KPIs
absenteeism costs averted
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Medium priority KPIs
fiscal return on investment (FROI)
tax revenue gains
productivity gains
jobs created
social protection expenditure averted
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Additional KPIs
GDP per capita increase
hospital admissions prevented
emergency visits averted
bed-days saved
years of life saved
early retirement prevented
ICER
vaccination coverage
How it works
A hybrid modelling framework
Telos doesn't rely on a single model — it combines four complementary approaches to capture the full complexity of health systems.
probabilistic
markov models
Forecasts disease progression and health state transitions probabilistically — modelling how populations move between healthy, sick, and recovered states over time.
population-wide
macro-level simulation
Captures population-wide trends and economic impacts, enabling modelling of GDP effects, workforce productivity, and national health system costs.
complex systems
dynamic systems modelling
Simulates the non-linear feedback loops and complex interactions within health systems — essential for modelling combined policy effects.
adaptive
machine learning & AI
Refines forecasts in real time, identifies patterns across datasets, optimises scenario configurations, and enables AI-driven data sourcing from global publications.
Book a demo
See Telos in action
Fill in your details and our team will arrange a live walkthrough of Telos — tailored to your organisation's context and level of analysis.
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No commitment required
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Tailored to your region and use case
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Usually responds within 2 working days
Ready to make your case?
Book a demo to see Telos in action — or download the brief to share with your team.