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The Second ECAM Council Summit offered delegates the opportunity to focus on health developments in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The theme of 2021’s summit was ‘Finding New Ways to Care’ with particular focus on the urgency of supporting and encouraging public-private approaches to healthcare provision and investment. Many speeches centered on the question of how healthcare systems can be changed and improved post pandemic and in preparation for future pandemics as well as multilateral cooperation, financial burden and debt incurred by poorer nations as a result of the pandemic.

Key Issues

 * Instability, changing strategic alliances caused by the pandemic and the role of multilateralism to guarantee long-lasting peace and cooperation.
 * How to tackle the lack of a global vaccination plan—that leads to discrepancies in vaccination campaigns across the continents—through multilateralism and international dialog.
 * New models of international cooperation to secure the world against future pandemics and organize concrete and effective responses to safeguard weaker and developing countries.

Key Issues

 * Framing the healthcare investment landscape: needs, constraints and opportunities for stakeholders in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
 * Discussing the effects of the Covid-19 crisis: lessons learned, investment priorities and the impact on the healthcare sector at a global and regional level.
 * Identifying best practices, tools and prospects for cooperation to mobilize the investments required in the healthcare sector in the EU and in Africa.

Key Issues

 * The public sector's role, putting the needs of citizens and patients at the core, stimulating research and effectively complementing the private sector to enhance the quality and capillarity of services.
 * The role and experience of Gruppo San Donato in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: success cases, models and opportunities to further develop corporate activities.
 * New and innovative PPP schemes in the healthcare sector capable of mobilizing adequate resources in areas with insufficient investment in healthcare.

Key Issues

 * The prospects and successes of the medical and life sciences sector over the next few years and the trends that will emerge in the medicine of the future.
 * How to enable these developments and make the benefits accessible to developing countries: proposals for the public sector, individuals and investors.
 * The main changes expected in the sector's R&D, the implications of this transformation and the risks to be avoided.
 * The role of education in enabling the innovations and achievements of future medicine: proposals and areas of cooperation between countries to make the most of the human capital available to the sector.

Key Issues

 * The MENA region and Sub-Saharan Africa after Covid-19: development perspectives, challenges and key megatrends affecting regional growth.
 * Building stronger cooperation between Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: a new beginning in the post-Covid scenario, with the Mediterranean at the center.
 * The promotion of peace, stability and prosperity in the greater Mediterranean area thanks to a renewed multilateral commitment.

Key Messages

 * Covid-19 affected all countries and regions showing the global interconnectedness and reviving the need for multilateral approaches.
 * Speed and pervasiveness of the response has been unbalanced among regions.
 * Pre-existent differences in healthcare systems contribute to this heterogeneity, with Sub-Saharan Africa particularly disadvantaged in terms of per capita spending and availability of infrastructures.
 * $26 billion investment gap in healthcare infrastructures in Africa must be overcome to effectively address the specific needs of the continent.
 * Collaboration between the public and private sectors (PPPs) and international cooperation at all levels are key to achieve this goal.

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Covid-19 had a global impact affecting all geographical areas around the world causing a divergence from the previous economic growth path in all regions; at the same time, the Covid-19 crisis has revived the need for cooperation and multilateralism.

Multilateralism means solidarity, cooperation and coordination. As a non profit association, the ECAM Council needs to search for shared solutions with a renewed attention to people, the planet and its prosperity. Multilateralism is the key to resilient and sustainable recovery in line with the 2023 G20 agenda.

Trade and environmental policies must support each other, in fact the steps that have been taken in the battle against the Covid pandemic must be assimilated and not dispersed.

Key Messages

 * Italy consistently ranks second globally for the level of its healthcare sector, thanks to an efficient allocation of resources in terms of inputs and outputs.
 * Despite lower expenditure per capita compared to its peers, the Italian result is achieved thanks to an integrated model of public-private cooperation that relies on four pillars: high quality and universality, public-private competition, DRG payment systems and decentralization.
 * A stronger private sector engagement can complement the public sector to enhance the quality and capillarity of service, delivering high-quality and universal access to care.
 * In Africa, the private sector is already pervasive in the healthcare sector but requires an improvement in health system governance to adhere to shared standards of practice.

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Italy is the second healthiest country in the world, after Spain thanks to its efficiency in terms of expenditure and life expectancy. Italy’s excellent healthcare sector is achieved with lower healthcare expenditure than its peers relying on a regional mixed public-private healthcare system. The system integrates elements of accountability and competition, without compromising the social mission of healthcare facilities.

Regionalization of the system ensures comprehensive territorial coverage, with centers of medical research excellence in major cities serving the rest of the country. Under this model, the contribution of the private health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa constitutes an important component of the region’s health care systems, covering the entire health value chain, including provision, financing, manufacturing, distribution, and retail.

Key Messages

 * R&D and knowledge are growing at global level in terms of inputs (R&D investments), outputs and outcomes.
 * Innovation is crucial for economic growth and is driving performance of both countries and companies.
 * The Life Sciences industry is a leader in R&D and innovation capacity providing major benefits for patients and societies and enabling what is called the Medicine of the Future.
 * Cooperation and education will be even more important in allowing countries to benefit from Life Sciences innovations and Medicine of the Future developments.

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The Covid-19 emergency stressed the strategic importance of investing in R&D to drive economic growth. At the same time, it is strategic for companies to invest in innovation to augment their overall performance because without science, research and development, there is no future ahead of us.