By Joseph Varghese/Staff Reporter
World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) will present its Global Diffusion of Healthcare Innovation (GDHI) research at the Global Forum 2015 on Research and Innovation for Health, taking place in Manila this month.
Held from August 24 to 27, the forum is attended by leading healthcare stakeholders representing governments, NGOs and the private sector.
The GDHI research is an assessment of how healthcare systems around the world adopt new innovations and spread them successfully, with the aim of inspiring other countries to adopt the best methods and ideas. It will address the need for innovation and research to improve economies and population health.
WISH, a global initiative of Qatar Foundation, collected the key information for the GDHI through a series of interviews and surveys with a range of experts in each country, including policymakers and healthcare professionals.
The GDHI research focuses on the factors and key enablers that allow the selected countries to take up new health innovations, including funding for research and their relationships with other sectors.
The GDHI also examines the cultural behaviour that influences the spread of new ideas, such as the way each country engages with healthcare professionals, patients and the wider public, and highlights particular areas where countries are creating these conditions. By sharing this learning and dialogue, WISH hopes that other countries can translate these ideas for their own systems.
The Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health 2015 aims to identify solutions to the world’s unmet health needs through research and innovation. The forum builds on and expands the scope and impact of the previous Global Forum for Health Research in support of a new world in which development is global and in which research and innovation capacity is increasingly a domain where everyone participates.
Organised by the Council on Health Research for Development in partnership with the Philippine’s Department of Science and Technology, Department of Health and the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, Forum 2015 will provide a platform for low- and middle-income countries to play an active role in defining the global health research agenda, while presenting solutions and creating effective partnerships for action.
