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Background: The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) has been a model academic
partnership in global health for nearly three decades, leveraging the power of a public-sector academic medical
center and the tripartite academic mission –service, education, and research –to the challenges of delivering
health care in a low-income setting. Drawing our mandate from the health needs of the population, we have
scaled up service delivery for HIV care, and over the last decade, expanded our focus on non-communicable chronic
diseases, health system strengthening, and population health more broadly. Success of such a transformative endeavor
requires new partnerships, as well as a unification of vision and alignment of strategy among all partners involved.
Leveraging the Power of Partnerships and Spreading the Vision for Population Health.
We describe how AMPATH built on its collective experience as an academic partnership to support the public-sector
health care system, with a major focus on scaling up HIV care in western Kenya, to a system poised to take responsibility
for the health of an entire population. We highlight global trends and local contextual factors that led to the genesis of
this new vision, and then describe the key tenets of AMPATH’s population health care delivery model: comprehensive,
integrated, community-centered, and financially sustainable with a path to universal health coverage. Finally, we share
how AMPATH partnered with strategic planning and change management experts from the private sector to use a novel
approach called a ‘Learning Map®’to collaboratively develop and share a vision of population health, and achieve
strategic alignment with key stakeholders at all levels of the public-sector health system in western Kenya.
Conclusion: We describe how AMPATH has leveraged the power of partnerships to move beyond the traditional
disease-specific silos in global health to a model focused on health systems strengthening and population health.
Furthermore, we highlight a novel, collaborative tool to communicate our vision and achieve strategic alignment
among stakeholders at all levels of the health system. We hope this paper can serve as a roadmap for other global
health partners to develop and share transformative visions for improving population health globally. |
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