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The Commonwealth Fund continues to seek and nurture partnerships with international foundations in order to expand and enrich its programs. In November 2006, the Fund announced a new partnership with the Stuttgart-based Robert Bosch Foundation, which has agreed to collaborate with the Fund to provide support for an additional Harkness Fellow from Germany, starting with the 2007–08 class. In addition, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care provided support for the inclusion of Germany in the Fund's 2005 and 2006 international health policy surveys, expanding the survey to six countries and helping to establish Germany as a core country in the Fund's international program.
Since 2004, the Fund's partnership with the U.K.-based Health Foundation has included annual support for two U.K. Harkness/Health Foundation Fellows. Collaboration between the two foundations has enabled the inclusion of an expanded U.K. sample in the Fund's international health policy surveys and comparisons among England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In addition, the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute at the Australian National University and the Dutch Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK) at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre partnered with the Fund in the 2006 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians.
Each year since 2001, two Canadian Harkness Associates have participated in the fellowships program as part of a collaboration between the Fund and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. The Canadian Harkness Associates participate in the fellowship seminars, including Washington and Canadian briefings, adding a valuable perspective to the program. The Fund continues to build on its longest-standing international partnership with the Nuffield Trust, with which the Fund has cosponsored the International Meeting on Health Care Quality since 1999.
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