New research initiative to support the sustainability and resilience of Morocco’s healthcare system launches today

Monday 4 December – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Today the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR), in collaboration with African Global Health (AGH) has initiated a research initiative to review the sustainability and resilience of the health system in Morocco.

Globally, health systems are struggling with comparable challenges, including in Morocco. Issues related to workforce shortages and staff burn out, increased service demand due to ageing and growing populations and increases in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), alongside economic pressures and climate disasters, have overstretched systems, leaving them vulnerable and ill-equipped to respond to future needs. While it is impossible to prevent all issues, maximum efforts should be taken to ensure that health systems are able to continually function effectively over the long-term, whilst also being able to better prepare for, adapt to, learn, transform and recover from shocks and accumulated stresses.

This new research project is grounded in a robust methodology, using a framework developed by the London School of Economics. It aims to identify the strengths, potential weaknesses, opportunities, and risks of a country’s healthcare system. The framework will assess the country’s health system across seven core domains; health system governance, financing, workforce, medicines and technology, service delivery, population health, and environmental sustainability.

Dr. Imene Kendili, President of African Global Health, said “We hope this research will help us better understand Morocco challenges and thereby develop tailored recommendations on how we can build a truly sustainable and resilient health system in alignment with the current plans to reform the Kingdom’s healthcare led by His Majesty’s vision to extend medical coverage to the whole population.”

Established in 2020 by the London School of Economics, the World Economic Forum, and AstraZeneca, the PHSSR is a non-profit, global collaboration between academic, non-governmental, life sciences, healthcare and business organisations with a unified goal to improve global health by building more sustainable and resilient health systems for the future. Each organisation brings unique capabilities and networks to the partnership and contributes in a way that leverages its strengths.

Rami Scandar, Country President, Near East and Maghreb, AstraZeneca, said, “Multi-sector and public-private partnerships can provide effective and speedy solutions to strengthen health system sustainability and resilience. The PHSSR research is the starting point to facilitate this change but how the research is used is critical to making a difference.”

Active in more than 30 countries worldwide, the PHSSR and its member organisations seek to build knowledge through robust research, guide action through evidence-informed policy recommendations, and facilitate global, multi-sector collaboration and partnership to collectively facilitate policy implementation to future proof health systems.

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About the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience

The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) is a non-profit, global collaboration between academic, non-governmental, life sciences, healthcare, and business organisations with a unified goal to improve global health by building more sustainable and resilient health systems for the future.

The PHSSR seeks to facilitate cross-border and cross-sectoral collaboration to accelerate the strengthening of health systems by enabling international knowledge exchange and collaboration with health system stakeholders.

To learn more about the PHSSR, its findings and recommendations please visit www.phssr.org and follow us on LinkedIn to receive regular updates.

The PHSSR defines health system sustainability and resilience as follows:

Health system sustainability: A sustainable health system improves population health by continually delivering the key functions of providing services, generating resources, financing and stewardship, incorporating principles of financial fairness, equity in access, responsiveness and efficiency of care, and does so in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Health system resilience: A resilient health system is able to prevent, respond to, manage the health system impact of, and recover and learn from, acute and chronic crises (including, but not limited to, pandemic threats, climate change and economic and technological shocks), minimising their short- and long-term impacts on health, social and economic wellbeing.

Media contact: Maria Nauss, Communications Lead, Near East and Maghreb, AstraZeneca
maria.nauss@astrazeneca.com