Doha: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) presented its evidence-based research to nearly 200 health policy experts at a global forum hosted by Health Affairs in Washington, DC on June 14.
Health Affairs is one of the world’s leading peer-reviewed journals in the field of health policy research. Its mission is to serve as a high-level, non-partisan platform to encourage analysis and discussion to improve health and healthcare and address issues including cost, quality and access.
The forum, ‘Global Health: Patient Safety, Cancer Care, Universal Health Coverage and Innovation’, explored issues facing the global health community and coincided with the journal’s publication and distribution of a compendium of articles that originated from the WISH Summit in 2015.
The papers, also been published in Health Affairs over the past year, addressed four major issues confronting the global health community: How to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases; How to improve access to vaccines in low and middle-income countries; How to achieve universal health coverage; and How to accelerate the diffusion of healthcare innovation’.
WISH leadership and WISH research forum chairs played key roles in briefing, moderating discussions and speaking about their areas of expertise. They included Sir David Nicholson, former chief executive, National Health Service, UK, and Chair, WISH Universal Health Coverage Forum 2014; Dr. Victor Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine, and Chair of WISH Precision Medicine Forum 2016; Peter Pronovost, Senior Vice-President for Patient Safety and Quality, and Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Chair of WISH Patient Safety Forum 2015; and Mark McClellan, Director, Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University, and Chair, WISH Accountable Care Forum 2013 and 2016.
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