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The Fund continues to seek and nurture partnerships with international foundations in order to expand and enrich its programs. In addition to the recent expansion of the Harkness Fellowships, the Fund's partnership with The Health Foundation includes other areas of collaboration. Beginning with the 2004 International Health Policy Survey, The Health Foundation supports an expanded U.K. survey sample, making possible statistically significant comparisons between England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The foundation will also host a U.K. health policy symposium, modeled after the Fund's own International Symposium, to bring together health ministers and senior government officials from the four countries and to release the U.K. survey findings.
In the fall of 2002, the Fund joined the Bertelsmann International Network for Health Policy and Reform in a collaboration among 15 countries to share information on policy reforms, innovations, and best practices. Composed of independent experts from foundations and research institutions based in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, the network analyzes health sector reforms and trends in industrialized nations on a "real-time" basis. Reports are produced twice a year and disseminated to policymakers and, through the Internet, to a worldwide policy audience. The third meeting of the collaboration was held in Berlin in July 2004. In December 2004, the Bertelsmann Foundation partnered with the Fund and AcademyHealth to convene a meeting of senior U.S. and German government officials and leading policy experts to share innovative health care delivery and financing models for the coordination of care for people with chronic illnesses.
An ongoing collaboration between the Fund and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation enables two Canadian Harkness Associates to participate in the fellowships program each year. In addition, the Fund continues to build on its longest-standing international partnership with the Nuffield Trust, with which the Fund has cosponsored the annual U.S.-U.K. Meeting on Health Care Quality since 1999.
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