Abstract
Abstract: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed many national healthcare systems around the world. In attempts to meet their emergency needs and mitigate escalating challenges, governments are increasingly reaching out to the private sector to form sustainable, public-private partnerships (PPPs). Unfortunately, many of these ad hoc efforts have been reactive and uncoordinated to date. This perspective article thus offers a proactive, collaborative, and strategic vision for healthcare PPPs, focusing on short-, medium-, and long-term proposals that will harmonize strategic objectives and mobilize both public and private resources to combat and build resilience against global pandemics like COVID-19.
Highlights
Back in 2011, Laurence Carter, former Director of Private Partnerships (PPPs) Transaction Advisory at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), gave us an ominous warning about the state of global healthcare provision
As we unwillingly enter into the coronavirus (COVID-19) epoch—which will undeniably be around for the foreseeable future—his words take on new meaning and public-private partnerships (PPPs) are again being globally bandied by political, economic, and healthcare leaders as one of the foremost solutions to mitigating this enduring pandemic—a disease which has crippled economies, infected ~8.5 million people across 188 countries, and caused over 450,000 deaths worldwide [2]
Given today’s pressing need for global collaboration in the increasingly fragmented field of public administration, this perspective article intends to offer a proactive, collaborative, Sustainability 2020, 12, 5097 proactive, collaborative, and strategic vision for healthcare PPPs aimed at combatting global pandemics like COVID-19 by synthesizing “problems of relevance and rigour” through ahnydbsritdraizteagtiiocnv—isii.oen., cfoo-rphroedaultchtcioanreoPf PkPnsowailmedegde abtetcwoemebnastctihnoglagrsloabnadl ppraancdtietmionicesrsli[k4e] (CpO. 4V0I0D).-1W9e bbyesgyinntbhyesbirziienflgy“cplarroibfyleinmgswohf artelweveamnceeananbdy hriegaoltuhrc”artherPoPuPgsh
Summary
Formal partnerships between the public and private sectors that harmonize the efforts of multiple stakeholders (at international, national, and subnational levels) are needed at this critical juncture. We are reminded daily of the multifarious nature of healthcare and the multiple facets that must be addressed to immediately improve its resilience and sustainability. This includes strained supply chains (i.e., protective clothing, medical instruments, pharmaceuticals, etc.), lack of facility capacity (i.e., labs/testing, hospital beds, emergency vehicles, etc.), and shortages in healthcare practitioners (i.e., doctors, nurses, clinicians, support staff, etc.), among others [18]. What is critically needed are partnerships between the public and private sectors that address short-, medium-, and long-term challenges.
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