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The Commonwealth Fund continues to seek and nurture partnerships with international foundations in order to expand and enrich its current programs. In addition to expanding the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy program to include two U.K. Harkness/Health Foundation Fellows, The Commonwealth Fund's partnership with the Health Foundation features other areas of collaboration. Beginning with the 2004 International Health Policy Survey, The Health Foundation has supported an expanded U.K. sample, making possible statistically significant comparisons among England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Beginning with the 2005 International Health Policy Survey of Sicker Adults, Germany's Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care provided support for the survey in Germany, expanding the survey to six countries.
Each year since 2001, two Canadian Harkness Associates have participated in the fellowships program as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Fund and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. The Fund continues to build on its longest-standing international partnership—that with the Nuffield Trust, with which the Fund has cosponsored an annual International Meeting on Health Care Quality since 1999.
In the fall of 2002, the Fund joined the Bertelsmann International Network for Health Policy and Reform in a 15-nation collaboration for sharing information on policy reforms, innovations, and best practices. The network—which includes independent experts from foundations and research institutions in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S.—provides "real-time" reports twice each year on health sector reforms and trends in industrialized nations.
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