About The Foundation
The Global Medical Forum Foundation is a private non-profit global network of selected innovators and decision-makers in healthcare who are dedicated to understanding and supporting the complex interrelationship between biomedical innovation and the many different healthcare systems of the world.
It is a place for these selected leaders in healthcare to discuss rational solutions to the healthcare debate. It is a provider of unbiased information to the public as a whole on the value and role of medical innovation and technology, the financing of healthcare, and other related issues of public policy. The Foundation has been accepted as unbiased by the many different constituencies of the healthcare debate. It is an active participant in nurturing and promoting new public private partnerships which encourage biomedical innovation, especially in emerging markets.
The annual meetings of the Foundation provide a venue where leaders in the global medical businesses (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, insurance, biotechnology), government health policy (ministries of health, WHO), financing (venture capital, banks), and medicine (academe, research) can come together to better understand their interrelationship in a global economy and a world where disease knows no borders.
Every nation – every health care business leader, health minister, and scientist – faces virtually the same challenges in discovering and advancing new treatments, cures and technologies through an efficient and rational system of healthcare financing. The issues that these leaders face are more similar than different. The decisions they make ultimately have an effect on systems and markets in other countries. The pharmaceutical marketing decisions made in Zürich can quickly impact a health plan in Los Angeles and the ability of a local government to deal with the most basic health needs in Lagos.