HEALTH

Ramallah Workshop

In June, Palestine Emerging hosted the first local gathering of the Palestine Healthcare Partnership in Ramallah. The workshop focused on defining concrete next steps and collaborative ways of working to drive the recovery and transformation of Palestinian healthcare across Gaza and the West Bank. 

Palestine Healthcare Partnership Launch

In May 2025, the Istanbul “Step Up and Help Gaza/Palestine” Conference, launched the Palestine Healthcare Partnership, a multi-agency initiative led by Palestine Emerging in collaboration with the Palestinian Hospital Union, the Palestinian National Institute of Public Health, the Union of Palestinian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (UPPM), Palestine Insurance Federation, NatHealth, Jhpiego and Anera. 

This unique cross-sector partnership, which includes over 40 member organisations, is committed to driving coordinated, system-wide reform aligned with Ministry of Health’s strategic priorities and the Palestine Emerging Healthcare Transformation and Partnership blueprint.

The partnership is focused on expanding access to healthcare and improving care quality care, while strengthening the resilience of the health system as part of broader economic recovery. Key areas of work include:

• Community health through the piloting and scaling of high-impact initiatives such as telemedicine and deployment of mobile health units
• Insurance reform 
• Palestinian pharmaceutical sector development

A signed copy of the Letter of Intent by the partnership can be found here.

Strategic Partnership with Anera

In May 2025, Palestine Emerging and Anera launched a strategic partnership to to identify key priorities and investments for expanding community health delivery through Anera. The press release can be accessed here.

Healthcare Partnership & Transformation Blueprint Launch

In December 2024, the Healthcare Partnership & Transformation blueprint was launched at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

Healthcare is an essential foundation for a healthy workforce and a thriving society. In health, Palestine Emerging has developed a partnership strategy between public and private healthcare players to increase the quality and accessibility of care.

Incorporating inputs from the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organisation and other local health players, Palestine Emerging, in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School, Rand and Palestinian experts, has set out a comprehensive healthcare transformation and partnership plan. 

As part of this, eight health catalysts were identified with humanitarian, insurance, digitisation, training, and export workstreams.

A health delivery unit is being set up to implement the plans across coordinated stakeholders. Decentralised units, comprised of local members and international experts, are also being established to deliver individual catalytic projects. 

The Healthcare Transformation and Partnership plan can now be read in full.