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>Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health
>Edited by Michael R. Reich
>
>Published by Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies,
>2002
>Harvard Series on Population and International Health
>
>Online book available as PDF file [218p.] at:
>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcpds/partnerbook/Partnershipsbook.PDF
>
>".......Global health problems require global solutions, and
>public-private
>partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions.
>Such
>partnerships involve private corporations in collaboration with
>governments,
>international agencies, and non-governmental organizations. They can
>be very
>productive, but they also bring their own problems. This volume
>examines the
>organizational and ethical challenges of partnerships and suggests
>ways to
>address them.
>
>How do organizations with different values, interests, and worldviews
>come
>together to resolve critical public health issues? How are shared
>objectives
>and shared values created within a partnership? How are relationships
>of
>trust fostered and sustained in the face of the inevitable conflicts,
>uncertainties, and risks of partnership? This book focuses on
>public-private
>partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to
>improve
>health conditions in poor countries. The volume includes case studies
>of
>partnerships involving specific diseases such as trachoma and river
>blindness, international organizations such as the World Health
>Organization, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and products
>such as medicines and vaccines. Individual chapters draw lessons from
>successful
>partnerships as well as troubled ones in order to help guide efforts
>to
>reduce global health disparities......."
>