Bridging Innovation and System Reform

South-South Collaboration for Health Equity

Overview

Developed as part of Global Health Strategies’ (GHS) work on documenting good practices for South-South Cooperation, supported by the Gates Foundation, India’s Health Blueprint for the Global South is a five-part series of papers focusing on distinct themes: pharmacy, digital health, health systems strengthening, nutrition, and maternal health. Through policies, programmes, and partnerships, India has made significant progress in these areas over the last few decades, improving the health and well-being of its people. These papers draw on desk research and interviews with key stakeholders to examine how these gains were made and how they can offer blueprints other states could adapt.

In partnership with GHS, BMJ Group will host a roundtable inspired by these papers that brings together leading health and policy experts to examine how innovations from India’s healthcare system can be adapted globally. The discussion will focus on the role of technology, public-private collaboration, and targeted innovation in driving health-system reform, particularly in resource-constrained settings. It will also explore the systemic barriers that can shape the adoption and implementation of new approaches.

India’s Health Blueprint for the Global South

Digital Health Leadership: India’s Blueprint for the Global South examines flagship initiatives and innovations that have been part of India’s digital health transformation and how they can serve as a scalable model for low- and middle- income countries.

India: The World’s Pharmacy Sustaining Leadership in Global Health details India’s position in global pharmaceutical supply chains and outlines what has enabled this success, the challenges that must be faced and strategic recommendations that will reinforce India’s position in the pharmaceutical industry.

Health systems strengthening: A compendium of India’s good practices for the Global South outlines health system innovations that enabled large-scale reform by relying on combining digital public infrastructure, decentralized governance, and community-anchored workforce models.

Improving nutrition outcomes: Drawing on India’s Experience for the Global South examines how India has transitioned to an integrated, systems-based approach that treats malnutrition as a broad development priority linked to food security, gender equity, and climate resilience. By analysing field-level interventions and women-led initiatives, this paper offers actionable, replicable lessons.

Saving Every Mother: Innovative Approaches Transforming Maternal Health Outcomes in India and the Global South spotlights cutting-edge innovations – products, technologies, practices, and protocols – addressing the leading causes of maternal mortality: postpartum haemorrhage, sepsis, hypertensive disorders, and anaemia.  Adopting an ‘India and the World’ lens, it draws out scalable, actionable lessons for countries across the Global South.

Please note that these papers have been produced by Global Health Strategies and not been editorial reviewed by BMJ.

About the roundtable

This roundtable is being organised with Global Health Strategies, with support from the Gates Foundation.