Sweden & India - Partners in Health
A commitment has now been made by both the Swedish Socialdepartementet and the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to make 2019 the Year of Health - #SwedenIndiaHealth2019. As we plan for the year ahead, we welcome your input as your engagement is crucial to this partnership. The focus will be on aligning Swedish Triple Helix life science actors in delivering a structured solution to common challenges in India. Concrete deliverables along the care continuum is the ultimate objective of this collaboration. Once this proof of concept yields results - increased efficiency, decreased costs, healthier community - the Indian government has expressed interest in scaling the concept to other parts of the country. The Indian Ministry suggests Jodhpur, and its new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), as the test bed for this collaboration.
This, of course, does not preclude collaborations in other parts of India and many of our partners and members have ongoing projects throughout the country. We foresee increased activities with AIIMS New Delhi, Apollo Hospitals, Public Health Foundation of India, MaxCure Group, India Institute of Technology in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Chennai, to name a few. But these will all be conducted with a view to ensure that Swedish stakeholders, despite having distinct objectives, will be moving in the same direction. Partnerships between Swedish actors is encouraged so that the momentum we have generated results in concrete (measurable) outputs.
Proposed timeline for 10-year celebrations in 2019
- January - pre-feasibility study in Jodhpur to determine scope
- 24-28 February - Swedish Ministerial visit to Delhi (and Jodhpur) in conjunction with the Global Digital Health Partnership
- April/May - heads of Indian hospitals will be invited to Sweden for a study visit and workshop
- 21-23 May - Vitalis 2019 session to focus on AI & Innovation with an incoming health tech delegation which will visit incubators and hubs in Stockholm and Gothenburg
- September - agency and private sector workshop in India
- October/November - Indian Ministerial or Health Secretary visit to Stockholm along with the 11th Joint Working Group meeting
Other dates to keep in mind- 5 December - 2nd Private Sector Steering Committee Meeting
- 25-27 February - BioAsia 2019 in Hyderabad
- April/May - Indian elections
- 11-12 October - InnoHEALTH 2019 in New Delhi
- The Swedish India Business Council will also be organising tech delegations so please keep an eye on their website
Calls out
Focus areas
- Digital Health - non-communicable diseases, elderly care, AI, Health Tech
- Anti-Microbial Resistance - infection control, knowledge transfer, nurse training, medtech
May I please request that if you have upcoming activities, you contact us so that we can provide the necessary support both in Sweden and in India? We will be coordinating closely with the Indian Embassy in Stockholm and the Swedish Embassy in New Delhi and one of the proposed ideas is to create a quarterly newsletter highlighting events within the life science sector between our two countries which could also act as a status report so do write to us!
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