Manama: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), will present its Global Diffusion of Healthcare Innovation (GDHI) research to leading health care stakeholders at the Global Forum 2015 on Research and Innovation for Health.

Organised by the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), in partnership with the Philippine’s Department of Science and Technology, Department of Health, and the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, the Forum 2015 will provide a platform for low- and middle-income countries to play an active role in defining the global health research agenda, while presenting solutions and creating effective partnerships for action.

The meeting will bring together all stakeholders who play a role in making research and innovation benefit health, equity, and development, including high-level representatives from government, business, non-profits, international organisations, academic and research institutions, and social entrepreneurs. Over the course of three days, the Forum 2015 will use informative and interactive discussions, workshops, networking sessions, and activities to allow participants to interact, inspire, learn, and partner to increase their own impact.

Through its participation in the Forum 2015 taking place on August 24-27 in Manila, WISH aims to inspire and diffuse health care innovation and best practice.

“WISH is delighted to be a content partner for the Forum 2015, a key gathering that will highlight the need for research and innovation in health care,” Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, WISH Executive Chair and Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, said. “By sharing our content and expertise in global health innovation, we hope to inspire policymakers and health care leaders around the world to adopt and diffuse innovations more rapidly to help them overcome the most pressing health care challenges.”

WISH will present its GDHI research in a session titled “From evidence to policy — thinking outside the box” to highlight the need for innovation and research to improve economies and population health.

GDHI is an assessment of how health care systems around the world adopt innovations and spread them successfully, with the aim of inspiring other countries to implement the best methods and ideas.

Through interviews and surveys with a range of experts in each country, including policymakers and health care professionals, the GDHI research focuses on the factors and key enablers that allow the selected countries and systems to take up new health innovations, including funding for research and their relationships with other sectors.

This year’s report, published at the second WISH summit that took place in the Qatari capital Doha in February, identifies the critical factors needed to ensure that new health innovations, including new technology, policies, and practices, are quickly and effectively adopted across a country’s health system.

Through in-depth case studies, the report offers guidance for other health care systems that are looking to diffuse innovation, by examining how innovators harnessed the factors and behaviours that ensured success. The report’s key findings and recommendations will be presented at the Forum 2015.