Global Health Partnerships
Lord Nigel Crisp, Independent crossbench member of the House of Lords, UK
Former Chief Executive of the National Health Service, UK
Consultant to HLM Architects
Chair, Sightsavers International
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA
Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Global Health Partnerships
Lord Nigel Crisp will set the scene for greater collaboration between developed and developing countries with reference to the report he did for Prime Minister Blair on this subject and which now helps inform UK policy. He will draw out the ways in which knowledge can be shared and emphasise the mutual benefits of partnership.
We are now much more interdependent in health terms than we have ever been. Increasing globalisation has allowed for the greater sharing of knowledge and experience but has also allowed diseases to travel, whilst the health impacts of climate change will be damaging for us all. He will argue that there are also far greater opportunities for learning together how to tackle these difficulties and operate efficiently and effectively within an environment where resources of all sorts, carbon based and financial, will be in increasingly short supply.
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