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6 Innovation in Multi-Sectoral Engagement in Global Health
6 Innovation in Multi-Sectoral Engagement in Global Health
Pages 67-80
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. • There is a need for enabling partnerships that could be institutionalized at the country level and would be capable of identifying partnership opportunities; providing partnership governance and oversight; reviewing conflicts of interest; and bringing people together across sectors (Mistry)
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It would conclude with an opportunity for participants to respond to questions about their own perspectives and experiences. The speakers focused on multi-sector collaborations in Rwanda that delivered medical supplies through drone technology; multi-sector involvement in the elimination of neglected tropical diseases; and innovative investment mechanisms used to transform digital health systems.
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As a result, the government of Rwanda asked Zipline to provide blood delivery because it was a necessary but complex supply chain challenge. A small startup company at the time, Zipline enlisted the help of Gavi and The UPS Foundation.
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EXPANDED SPECIAL PROJECT FOR ELIMINATION OF NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES Donald Bundy, professor of epidemiology and development at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, explained that he would
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By that time, Bundy explained, five principal neglected tropical diseases 2 To learn more about ESPEN, visit https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/expanded special-project-elimination-neglected-tropical-disease (accessed August 8, 2019)
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Within the private sector, significant supply chain challenges resulted from the involvement of 14 pharmaceutical companies: each had different shipping methods and different types and doses of medications. Additionally, ministries within a country's government (e.g., health, revenue, and customs)
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Digital Square focuses on strengthening digital health governance and advocacy at the global, regional, and country levels through co-investment, support to global goods, and digital market readiness.6 BenDor explained that the digital health ecosystem has been facing "pilotitis," which is the proliferation of small, unsustainable pilots and tools that have not been coordinated or scaled. As a result, ministers of health in countries such as Uganda have asked for implementers to more strategically coordinate their initiatives and investments and to implement systems that are tested, scalable, and already supported.
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Digital Square also uses a Global Good Maturity model, which it developed. The maturity model specifies common metrics for understanding a digital health tool's level of advancement and assesses software maturity, global utility, and community support.
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It is also exploring opportunities for in-kind investments, including discussing partnership opportunities with other stakeholders in the digital space to provide resources for digital health global goods. One example of co-investment in the past year was support for a civil registration and statistics platform, OpenCRVS, which was approved through the Digital Square notice process.
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He noted that, in the corporate world, leadership from a company such as UPS would regularly meet with executives from large global health companies to exchange information about vision and challenges and to identify potential ways in which the companies could work together. Coughlan suggested this type of open and frank dialogue needs to occur in the PPP space, as well.
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Bundy reiterated a point made in a prior session by Olusoji Adeyi from the World Bank: the benchmarks of success matter. BenDor responded to Byrkit's question about sustainability and digital health by emphasizing the importance of investing in developing the local capacity in LMICs to develop, use, and implement digital health systems so that technologists and developers from higher-income countries do not have to enter the regions and complete those tasks.
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BenDor agreed that fostering trust and communication is important but so are embracing full collaboration, launching innovative partnerships, and harnessing transparency. SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS After the presentations and main discussion, participants broke into small groups for approximately 10 minutes to cover questions for the small group discussions, which focused on innovative models for multisectoral engagement in global health (see Box 6-2)
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However, this does not happen to the same degree in the tech sector, where intellectual property and competition represent challenges that need to be overcome. Gael O'Sullivan with Georgetown University explained that her group discussed the meaning of the word "multi-sectoral" and noted that the term had typically been used in the workshop to mean the private sector, government, nonprofits, and civil society.
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Highlighting Bundy's example of CEOs from 14 pharmaceutical companies who banded together to address river blindness and other neglected tropical diseases, Valdez concluded that projects or processes will be better when more actors -- or even competitors -- are around the table. Mistry spoke on behalf of the final group, which focused on the second question.
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