Global Health Connector & GSMA Foundry are delighted to announce a Strategic Partnership to promote and implement digital health across the globe.
For the last 12 years Global Health Connector has organised the Digital Health & Wellness Summit at MWC, Barcelona, helping GSMA raise the profile of digital health with telecommunications providers and related supply chain providers especially cyber security and privacy providers.
Since the pandemic Global Health Connector has expanded its work around the globe in partnership with leaders in Africa, India, South America and Asia Pac and a particular focus has been digital health. GSMA and its members have the ability to provide deployment capabilities for digital health through connectivity (5G/6G and satellite), mobile data, innovation (D2D – Direct 2 Device, AI, M4D-Mobile 4 Development to reduce inequalities and digital therapeutics) and interoperability know how.
On the new partnership, Brian O’Connor, Chair of the Global Health Connector, said:
“We are natural partners, with 1,000 telecoms companies as members, the best delivery system for digital health solutions around the world, with us supplying innovative solutions, connecting these dots will transform lives.
Richard Cockle, Head of GSMA Innovation Foundry at GSMA, added:
“This partnership brings together two organisations with a shared vision: harnessing the power of mobile connectivity and digital innovation to improve global health outcomes. By combining GSMA’s expertise in mobile technology and ecosystem convening with Global Health Connector’s leadership in health innovation, we can accelerate the delivery of impactful digital health solutions worldwide.”
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Global Health Connector is the world’s leading community connecting health innovators, policymakers, healthcare providers, investors and researchers across 78 countries.
Our mission is to ‘connect the dots’ to accelerate health transformation through collaboration, knowledge exchange, and groundbreaking connections. By fostering ecosystems of innovation and providing a global platform for dialogue and growth, we empower stakeholders to tackle the most pressing health, wellbeing and longevity challenges of our time.
Together we’re building a healthier, more connected world.
The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry, and society thrive. Representing mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries, the GSMA delivers for its members across three broad pillars: Connectivity for Good, Industry Services and Solutions, and Outreach. This activity includes advancing policy, tackling today’s biggest societal challenges, underpinning the technology and interoperability that make mobile work, and providing the world’s largest platform to convene the mobile ecosystem at the MWC and M360 series of events.
We invite you to find out more at gsma.com
