What’s Up Health: Why public-private partnerships are key to the future of healthcare

LLYC’s global Healthcare team recently launched their latest post, “Public-Private Partnerships.” A new “What’s Up Health” update focused on the importance of joining forces between the public and private sectors to tackle future healthcare challenges.

During the pandemic, public-private collaboration led to fast vaccine development and saved countless lives. Looking forward, many healthcare challenges still need to be addressed. According to Carlos Parry, Senior Director of EU Public Affairs at AstraZeneca, we must keep in mind critical issues such as the rise in chronic diseases due to longer lifespans and the fight against cancer, often called the “chronic disease pandemic.”

From this perspective, collaboration between public entities and private sectors is essential. Juan Luis Carpio, Crisis and Risk Manager at LLYC Peru, illustrates this idea with the case of Auna and the Peruvian and Colombian authorities during the COVID-19 crisis, which brought substantial advances that benefited the community.

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are a promising solution, as Ana Lluch, Healthcare Coordinator at LLYC Americas, shares in this latest issue. She explains how PPPs can unlock resources and expertise that might otherwise be out of reach by leveraging the strengths and capabilities of both the public and private sectors. In this way, PPPs can also address one of the greatest challenges of today’s healthcare systems: fair access to healthcare.

Read these and other stories in the latest What’s Up Health update!