Vietnam selected as only Asian pilot country in UK’s new global healthcare partnership
Vietnam has been selected as the only Asian pilot country in a new global healthcare partnership founded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the UK-based London School of Economics (LSE) and British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
British Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth Ward delivers a speech at the launch of the Partnership for Global Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) in Vietnam on November 18. (Photo: British Embassy in Hanoi)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has been selected as the only Asian pilot country in a newglobal healthcare partnership founded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), theUK-based London School of Economics (LSE) and British pharmaceutical giantAstraZeneca.
Launched inVietnam on November 18, the Partnership for Global Health System Sustainabilityand Resilience (PHSSR) aims to initiate a multi-sector effort to help healthsystems foresee, prevent, and adapt to the diverse health challenges the worldfaces.
In the pilotphase, running until January 2021, the project will be implemented in eightcountries including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, and Vietnam, amongst which Vietnam is theonly Asian country because of its unique health system experiences andexpertise, including its effective COVID-19 response.
PHSSR’s Vietnamteam will apply a new Framework developed by the LSE to conduct a rapid reviewof the country’s health system sustainability and resilience, and identifypractical solutions to strengthen them for the benefits of Vietnamese people.
Policyrecommendations from the pilot phase will inform The Great Reset – an initiativeby the WEF – and be announced at its virtual event in January 2021.
BritishAmbassador Gareth Ward expressed his delight that the UK and Vietnam are bothpart of the Partnership’s pilot phase, exchanging knowledge and experience toenhance both countries’ health systems and be better prepared for future healthcrises. He looked forward to further advancing UK-Vietnam health cooperationand bilateral relations.
While theCOVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic, it also presents a brief window ofopportunity to act, said AstraZeneca Vietnam Chairman & General DirectorNitin Kapoor. The pandemic has generated unprecedented public awareness, andthe political will to address global health issues, he said.
Vietnam’sdecisive leadership and swift action in its pandemic response have beeninspirational to the world, he noted, adding that his company expects to workclosely with the Vietnamese Government and the Ministry of Health, among others, tomaximise the project’s impact and increase local patients’ access to qualityhealthcare./.
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Health experts called for collective disease prevention and integrated solutions to achieve zero dengue deaths in the country at an online talk show on June 14.
The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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Leading Vietnamese companies specialising in respiratory and dermatological treatments, traditional medicine, immune support supplements, and functional foods will have an opportunity to connect with international distributors and secure export deals.
The project aimed to enable early detection and reduce the risk of dangerous complications, targeting patients with chronic diabetes, cardiovascular conditions and metabolic disorders.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
British Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth Ward delivers a speech at the launch of the Partnership for Global Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) in Vietnam on November 18. (Photo: British Embassy in Hanoi)
