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The global academic healthcare community is becoming increasingly interconnected as patients, students, professionals, and diseases cross international borders with greater ease and frequency.Play Welcome Video Due to the global nature of health, economic, and population concerns, there is now a critical junction of need and opportunity for academic health centers to work in partnership worldwide, and, in doing so, be among the critical forces shaping the 21st century. As an organized group, academic health centers can address pressing needs in public health, patient care, health professions education, and biomedical and clinical research with the ideal of improving the public good.

AAHC International™ Vision

AAHC International™ seeks to mobilize and represent academic health centers worldwide, with the goal of advancing and applying knowledge to improve health. The Association works with members to facilitate international collaboration and the development of organizational and management expertise to enhance the performance of academic health centers worldwide.
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Call for Presentations: AAHCI Inaugural Eastern European Regional Meeting


Click here to submit a presentation proposal for AAHCI's inaugural Eastern European Regional Meeting, held in Budapest, Hungary on November 7-8, 2013.  The meeting is being held in collaboration with Semmelweis University under the theme Collaborative Health Care: Changing Paradigms in Education, Clinical Care, and Research.  


AAHCI Middle East & North Africa Regional Meeting

AAHCI held its first Middle East & North Africa Regional Meeting on March 18 and 19, 2013.  The meeting was hosted by the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and attended by more than 100 academic health leaders from the region and abroad.  It drew attention to the extraordinary emphasis being placed on health care in Qatar, which is in the midst of building an academic health system -- a first in the region.  The meeting, highlighted in the local press, showcased growing interest in the Middle East region in the role of academic health centers and the integrated approach to clinical practice, education, and research.  A regional panel highlighted a proposal to construct an academic health science center at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman; described the relationship between health, education, and research at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia; and detailed a noteworthy expansion plan for the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Lebanon. The meeting also offered new perspectives on the necessity for global partnerships between academic health centers, and provided a crucial platform for new relationships to be developed and best practices to be shared.
Resources from AAHCI

The International Resource Center is a resource for colleges and universities engaged in international activities, and provides a framework for the key areas that institutions need to be aware of when conducting activities abroad. Examples include: collaborating with a foreign institution, establishing an office in another country, how to pay independent contractors in a foreign country, or sending students to a foreign location to name a few. The content on the site is also organized by functional areas of a university, such as Cash Management, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Reporting & Compliance, Research Compliance and Risk Management.

The Compelling Value Proposition of Academic Health Centers


Academic health centers represent a unique combination of teaching, research, and patient care. This blend of academe and clinical care creates a perspective in which these multiple roles are not disparate, but rather contribute to a whole that is truly greater than the sum of its parts. Read the full article by Steven A. Wartman, MD, PhD, MACP