Be it controlling NCDs, precision medicine for cancer or eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), health progress has been made possible by a network of actors.

This includes researchers in academia and in industry understanding diseases and developing vaccines and medicines, regulators incentivizing bringing of drugs to market, NGOs and foundations developing programs to deliver medicines, financial institutions defining innovative funding mechanisms, and healthcare providers training health workers.

The research-based biopharmaceutical industry has played its part by bringing life-saving and life-prolonging medicines and vaccines to individuals, improving both personal and public health outcomes. Together, industry and others have reimagined how medicines make the journey from lab to patient.

International multilateral
institutions
Research-based biopharmaceutical
manufacturers
Community health workers Insurers Regulators Healthcare providers
Patients
Health technology providers Hospitals Investors Public health departments National healthcare system Pharmacists Generic medicines companies NGOs Foundations Diagnostics companies Biotech Academia and universities Development banks
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