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Sent: 04 October 2010 17:50
To: Oliver,AJ
Subject: Call for Bids: Become the Host and Sponsor of the Health Policy Monitor from 2011 on!
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Adam,

Can you pls help me disseminate the Health Policy Monitor announcement via your EHPG / AAHPG lists?

With the attached RfP Bertelsmann is inviting proposals to assume the institutional and sponsoring leadership of our International Network Health Policy and Reform and the HPM.org Website from 2011 on.

Thanks a lot!

Sophia

- Apologies for cross-posting - 

HPM Announcement

Your chance: Become the Host and Sponsor of the Health Policy Monitor from 2011 on!
- Call for Bids -

The Bertelsmann Stiftung is now inviting offers from independent, well respected organizations to host, sponsor and develop the Health Policy Monitor and its global expert network, the International Network Health Policy & Reform from 2011 on. This is an exciting opportunity in times when many nations are addressing pressing health system challenges from service delivery, quality improvement and access through sustainable financing, remuneration and organization!

Bidding process

1)      Submission deadline: Monday, October 18, 2010
2)      Proposals to be addressed to Sophia.Schlette(@)bertelsmann-stiftung.de, cc. Uwe.Schwenk(@)bertelsmann-stiftung.de.
3)      For further inquiries please contact Sophia Schlette via email, skype (sophia.schlette) or phone at her current base in the U.S.: +1.510.593.9205
4)      Interviews with short-listed organizations will be conducted either in person or via VC from Oct 19-31, 2010.
5)      Successful applicants will be notified in November.

As health systems grow closer, looking beyond one's border is becoming increasingly popular and meaningful. Decision-makers and stakeholders search for and try out health policy tools, improvement and innovation strategies, or evaluation findings from other countries. Tipping points, a sense of urgency or a window of opportunity - the health policy monitor captures ongoing developments and allows for analyses of what work's and what doesn't at a particular point in time and in the longer run.

The project's scope and findings are best presented at our freely accessible website, the Health Policy Monitor, (HPM) www.hpm.org. For your convenience, I also attach a link to two short videos where the HPM network and related activities of individual members are introduced: www.hpm.org/en/About_Us/About_the_project/Network_partners/Video_about_the_Health_Policy_Network.html
and on our half yearly publication -
www.hpm.org/en/Downloads/Health_Policy_Developments/Health_Policy_Developments_12/Health_Policy_Developments_Issue_12/Watch_video_ad_for_HPD_12.html

We're looking for offers from organizations that can relate to the exciting interface between research, practice, and the politics of policy in health care at  an international level, and have the capacity to finance, manage and develop this project further.

The work we do centers around half-yearly reports and analyses of health policy innovations in 20 industrialized countries - partly European, partly from North America, Asia and the Western Pacific region -, with contributions from select expert teams from these countries. After nine years of continuing support to the Health Policy Monitor - the product - and the International Network Health Policy and Reform - the people who bring it to life -, the foundation has officially commissioned me to search a new home and sponsor for both, the Monitor and its supporting expert network. It is the philosophy of the Bertelsmann Stiftung as a project organization to initiate and test innovative projects for some time, to then "outsource" the successful ones in organizational settings elsewhere.

Attached is a Call for Proposals - you can also find it online at www.hpm.org. Please submit your offer by or before October 18, 2010, via e-mail to Sophia.Schlette(at)bertelsmann-stiftung.de, and cc. Uwe.Schwenk(at)bertelsmann-stiftung.de

We'd be delighted to see the HPM network thrive at a well respected, independent institution with expertise in networking, with an affinity for international comparative and translational work, and a keen interest in social welfare policies, or health care policy in particular. European collaborations - the network is associated with the European Observatory - or a transatlantic consortium are also an option.

For further inquiries on the Call for Bids, please do not hesitate to contact Sophia Schlette at

Sophia Schlette, MPH

Senior Expert Health Policy
Bertelsmann Stiftung

Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße 256 | 33311 Gütersloh | Germany

Phone: +49 5241 81-81216 | Fax: +49 5241 81-681216 |
In the U.S. (till end of 2010) Cell: +1.510.593.9205

E-Mail: sophia.schlette(at)bertelsmann-stiftung.de | www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de | www.healthpolicymonitor.org
E-Mail in the U.S. sophia.schlette(at)yahoo.de

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