The Public and Private Sector Co Creation Hub and Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) co-hosted the third Young Professionals’ Roundtable for Public-Private Opinion Exchange on Social Security and Healthcare Policy, titled “Towards Comprehensive Measures for Prompt and Stable Supply of Pharmaceuticals.”

To begin the roundtable, Mr Go Yamamoto (Director, Venture Support Strategy Office, Policy Planning Division for Pharmaceutical Industry Promotion and Medical Information Management, Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) and Mr. Daichi Mitani (Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) explained the background to the establishment of the “Expert Panel on Comprehensive Measures for Prompt and Stable Supply of Pharmaceuticals” and the process of its discussion, the challenges it’s faced and the future direction for better measures. After sharing the private sector’s awareness of the issues, the participants exchanged views and deepened discussions on how to better evaluate innovation and to achieve its goal.

Introducing the Public and Private Sector Co Creation Hub

The Public and Private Sector Co Creation Hub engages in projects related to environmental improvement, facility operations, and supporting and encouraging collaboration and engagement among alliance organizations to generate new value to provide society through public-private co-creation. To achieve this, the Hub provides opportunities for conversations to be held among representatives of both the public and private sectors (including those from Government and municipal offices, local governments, administrative bodies, corporations, universities, NPOs, and civil society) spanning a variety of fields. The Public and Private Sector Co Creation Hub has been commissioned by Chuo-Nittochi Co., Ltd. to conduct a trial project for the Toranomon Innovation Center concept in which it is responsible for supporting initiatives for public-private co-creation at the Public and Private Sector Co Creation Studio.

Introducing Health and Global Policy Institute

Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) is a Tokyo-based independent and non-profit health policy think tank established in 2004. In its capacity as a neutral think-tank, HGPI involves stakeholders from wide-ranging fields of expertise to provide policy options to the public to successfully create citizen-focused healthcare policies. While holding fast to its independence to avoid being bound to the specific interests of political parties and other organizations, HGPI generates policy options that will be effective in Japan and around the world and actively pursues solutions to global health and health policy challenges.