Village Health Works’ mission is to provide quality, compassionate health care in a dignified environment while also addressing the root causes of illness, poverty, violence, and neglect.

Village Health Works

Health Equity International
Health Equity International is dedicated to providing essential health services to the people of Southern Haiti, especially the most vulnerable. We are committed to building a comprehensive, efficient, and resilient health system that provides high quality care. We believe that ensuring access to life-saving and life-changing health services is a critical component to building strong and productive communities.

Partners in Health
Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in healthcare. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners in Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.

Deerfield Announces Strategic Collaboration with Peking Union School of Public Health to Advance Healthcare in China
New York, New York –October 17, 2016 – Deerfield announced today a strategic collaboration with the Peking Union School of Public Health (PUSPH) to advance healthcare in China. Deerfield and PUSPH will collaborate to address healthcare needs in China using PUSPH’s local expertise and Deerfield’s US and European experience. The collaboration aims at sharing its findings through peer-reviewed joint publications.
The collaboration will focus on areas such as medicine procurement, supply chain management, antibiotics misuse, and hospital service quality assessment.
Deerfield will work closely with the PUSPH Dean Dr. Yuanli Liu and Food and Drug Safety and Policy Research Director Dr. Jing Sun. Dr. Yuanli Liu founded the US-China Health Summit during his tenure at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health prior to joining PUSPH. Over the years, he has been committed to creating direct discussion among policy makers, academic experts and business leaders to transform global healthcare.
Peking Union Medical College’s emphasis on preventive medicine and public health dates back to the 1920s, when John B. Grant chaired the Department of Public Health. The new Peking Union School of Public Health(PUSPH) was established in 2014, with a mission to improve the public health by conducting inter-disciplinary, innovative and translational research, informing policy, serving communities, and educating future public health leaders.
“It is our privilege to partner with Dr. Liu and the PUSPH to develop findings that can benefit the Chinese population and can also be shared globally to advance healthcare,” said Jim Flynn, Deerfield’s Managing Partner.“We look forward to a productive and innovative partnership.”
“We are excited to work with a health care expert like Deerfield that has the skills, broad based understanding and technical knowledge to help develop findings that can advance healthcare.” said Professor Yuanli Liu.
About PUSPH
PUSPH offers master and doctoral degrees in public health,epidemiology, social medicine and health management etc.
For more information, please visit http://www.cams.cn/sph/.
About Deerfield
Deerfield is an investment management firm committed to advancing healthcare through investment, information and philanthropy.
For more information, please visit www.deerfield.com
Contacts
Deerfield Management Company
Karen Heidelberger, 212-692-7140
[email protected]

Possible Health
Possible Health’s mission is to provide high-quality, low-cost care to the world’s poor. Possible is intent on making a model for patients to realize the right to health by delivering transparent, data-driven healthcare, which it is currently doing for Nepal’s rural poor.
The organizations is pioneering a new approach, called durable healthcare, that brings together the best of private, public, and philanthropic models. Since 2008, Possible has served over 350,000 patients in rural Nepal through hospitals, clinics, and a network of female community health workers.