WS 07 - International Life Sciences Location and Infrastructure Management

In the context of the World Health Summit 2018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, will host a workshop on the topic of "International Life Sciences Location and Infrastructure Management: Best Practices from Around the World".

The fact that a Ministry of Economic Affairs puts this health policy issue at the center of attention is an important strategy of the Canton of Bern. We believe that the conventional, more or less strictly differentiation of responsibilities by department (economy, science, health, finance, etc.) is in some fields not enough result-oriented and must be overcome, if the overall goal is to provide medicine and medical research as a central driver of social change and as a backbone of health-oriented developed societies. The location strategy for medicine and medical research, which the Canton of Bern and the Swiss capital region advances nationally and internationally, therefore follows the guiding principle "Health in All Policies", surely also in regional economic policy. The new medical and health Campus in Bern is of national importance. All political forces are brought together to raise successfully an open-oscillating functional system of research, translational medicine and care.