WS 27 - Healthy Exchange: Hospital Partnerships for Global Health

Partnerships between universities and hospitals of Southern and Northern countries are a perfect example of the new generation of alliances between governments, business and civil society for a joint response to global health challenges including antimicrobial resistence, infectious and non-communicable diseases.

Institutional health partnerships are collaborative platforms for professional exchanges between peer clinicians and offer a new business model for private companies from the health sector. The benefits of these twinning arrangements are felt all round: institutional North-South and South-South collaboration between healthcare providers strenghten knowledge, access and networks on all sides and improve health systems and services alike.

This session offers the opportunity to members of the public sector both in Northern and Southern countries, to representatives of the private industry and to the civil society to get to know each other, understand diverse motivations and explore how institutional health partnerships may be the tool to make innovation accessible in resource-poor settings and a mean to work jointly for mutual benefit.