The Healthcare PPP Guide is a primer in the motivations and incentives that underpin successful public-private partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare. It covers the foundational tenets of public-private partnerships: what they are, how they work, and whom they can benefit. It will also provide you with useful tools for engaging in PPPs: how they behave in different circumstances, how to think about them analytically, and how we can make them work better. The Guide is designed to be used by both public-sector and private-sector professionals.
But on a more basic level, the Healthcare PPP Guide is a toolkit designed to help you make sense of the notoriously complex and nuanced structures known as public-private partnerships. Although the Guide was prepared with a special emphasis on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the principles and frameworks outlined within are highly adaptable, and could be used to address many different kinds of healthcare challenges, including aging populations, infectious diseases, and even the Covid-19 pandemic.
Public-private partnerships are complex, flexible structures. Each must be adapted to the particular issues it attempts to solve, and for that reason, PPPs can prove challenging for a first-time learner. They can be confusing, and at times, counter-intuitive. The Healthcare PPP Guide is designed to help you make sense of these complex structures, and has emerged from fifteen years of investment in developing PPP methodologies and frameworks by the PPP Initiative and its predecessors at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Kennedy School.
The Guide will help you to clarify your thinking around PPPs, but truly understanding them will require hard work-critical thinking, keen engagement, and significant investments of time and energy.