About us

 PHSSR is a non-profit, global collaboration between academic, non-governmental, life sciences, healthcare, and business organisations with a unified goal to improve global health by building more sustainable and resilient health systems for the future.

PHSSR member organisations include the London School of Economics, the WHO Foundation, the World Economic Forum, AstraZeneca, Philips, the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI) and additional organisations at the regional and national levels. IQVIA has joined PHSSR for the Policy Roadmaps project on acting early on non-communicable diseases. Each organisation brings unique capabilities and networks to this partnership and contributes in a way that leverages its strengths.

Our mission

The PHSSR is committed to collaborating across sectors and borders to build more resilient and more sustainable health systems for the future. Our mission is to support this goal, by providing tools and resources for research, a focal point for collaboration and knowledge exchange within and between countries, and a platform to disseminate and catalyse the adoption of breakthrough insights.

The PHSSR and its member organisations seek to work with local academics, governments, policymakers and other stakeholders to:

Build knowledge

Build knowledge and understanding of the dimensions of, and the relationship between, health system sustainability and resilience, so that these concepts can be understood in different country contexts, enabling identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. 

Guide action

Guide action by generating independent evidence-informed solutions and policy recommendations to improve sustainability and resilience, promoting their uptake and supporting pilot implementations. 

Facilitate collaboration

Facilitate global, multi-sector collaboration and partnership to collectively facilitate policy implementation that accelerates improvement and strengthening of health systems, by enabling international knowledge exchange and collaboration with health system stakeholders.

Our leadership 


A global steering committee representing the global level member organisations from the PHSSR convenes regularly to help oversee the direction for the partnership. The steering committee is accountable for the governance of the project. Its role is to provide advice, ensure delivery of the project outputs and the achievement of project outcomes, including policy recommendations and solutions; communications and engagement; publications and other outputs; and evaluation for each project phase.

If you have a media enquiry or need comment or insight on areas of specialty addressed by the work of the PHSSR, we can connect you with members of the Steering Committee. Find out more here.

Alistair McGuire 

Professor of Health Economics
London School of Economics           Read more 

Shyam Bishen 

Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee                                         World Economic Forum
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Moz Siddiqui,

Director of Partnerships                         WHO Foundation 
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Iskra Reic 

Executive Vice President Vaccines & Immune Therapies
AstraZeneca
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Jan-Willem Scheijgrond 

Vice-President; Government and Public Affairs                                              Philips
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Syaru Shirley Lin 

Chair of the Board
Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI)
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Tim Wintermantel

Senior Principal, Global Public Health

IQVIA 

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(IQVIA is represented on the Steering Committee in observer capacity)

Explore regions

The PHSSR partners with regional hubs and networks to expand collaborations, conduct regional policy research, and draw upon the knowledge of local experts with in-depth understanding of the specific challenges and opportunities presented by their locale - bringing these voices to a global platform.

Ethics

The PHSSR is a co-creation to support the strengthening of the global public health ecosystem. The member organisations are fully committed to complying with regulatory guidelines in the focus countries and to conducting project activities in an ethical, transparent and open manner, underpinned by principles of academic rigour and global good citizenship.

Guiding principles


  • The Partnership will strive to obtain the right balance of rigour, detail and comprehensiveness with urgency in order to maximise its impact.
  • The project methodology will be guided by principles of iteration, responsiveness, situational awareness and continued refinement based on evaluations throughout the project.
  • The success of the Partnership will ultimately be measured by the nature, extent and distribution of its impacts in improving the resilience and sustainability of health systems worldwide.
  • The Partnership’s success will be underpinned by the validity, legitimacy and acceptance of its methodology by stakeholders in global health and international health systems.
  • The Partnership will take a critical and progressive stance with regards to the development of the framework, policy recommendations, practical solutions, ‘spin-off’ projects and partnerships to promote change, but will not be dismissive of existing and established approaches.
  • The Partnership will not recommend a one-fits-all approach. All project outputs will aim to take account of the differences in circumstances faced by health systems around the world.
Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience
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