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Leveraging the power of partnerships

Spreading the vision for a population health care delivery model in western Kenya

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ID19534610
AuthorsTim Mercer (0000-0002-8831-0569, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Adrian Gardner (0000-0002-7768-1161, Moi University), Benjamin Andama (AMPATH), Cleophas Chesoli (AMPATH), Astrid Christoffersen‐deb (0000-0002-3897-8907, Moi University), Astrid Christoffersen-Deb, Jonathan Dick (0000-0002-4875-6574, Moi University), Robert M Einterz (Indiana University School of Medicine), Robert Einterz, Nick Gray (0009-0002-0237-2409), Sylvester Kimaiyo (0000-0003-4957-1253, Moi University), Jemima Kamano (0000-0003-2179-8202, Moi University), Beryl Maritim (0000-0002-3754-0735, AMPATH), Kirk Morehead, Sonak Pastakia (0000-0003-4259-695X, Moi University), Laura J Ruhl (0000-0001-6646-9977, Moi University), Laura Ruhl, Julia Songok (0000-0002-6431-0505, Moi University), Jeremiah Laktabai (0000-0003-2198-6414, Moi University)
Year2018
Volume14
Issue1
Pages44-44
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalization and Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-8603 • E-ISSN: 1744-8603
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s12992-018-0366-5
PMID29739421
OpenAlexW2806865926
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited58

BACKGROUND: The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) has been a model academic partnership in global health for nearly three decades, leveraging the power of a public-sector academic medical center and the tripartite academic mission - service, education, and research - to the challenges of delivering health care in a low-income setting. Drawing our mandate from the health needs of the population, we have scaled up service delivery for HIV care, and over the last decade, expanded our focus on non-communicable chronic diseases, health system strengthening, and population health more broadly. Success of such a transformative endeavor requires new partnerships, as well as a unification of vision and alignment of strategy among all partners involved. Leveraging the Power of Partnerships and Spreading the Vision for Population Health. We describe how AMPATH built on its collective experience as an academic partnership to support the public-sector health care system, with a major focus on scaling up HIV care in western Kenya, to a system poised to take responsibility for the health of an entire population. We highlight global trends and local contextual factors that led to the genesis of this new vision, and then describe the key tenets of AMPATH's population health care delivery model: comprehensive, integrated, community-centered, and financially sustainable with a path to universal health coverage. Finally, we share how AMPATH partnered with strategic planning and change management experts from the private sector to use a novel approach called a 'Learning Map®' to collaboratively develop and share a vision of population health, and achieve strategic alignment with key stakeholders at all levels of the public-sector health system in western Kenya. CONCLUSION: We describe how AMPATH has leveraged the power of partnerships to move beyond the traditional disease-specific silos in global health to a model focused on health systems strengthening and population health. Furthermore, we highlight a novel, collaborative tool to communicate our vision and achieve strategic alignment among stakeholders at all levels of the health system. We hope this paper can serve as a roadmap for other global health partners to develop and share transformative visions for improving population health globally

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