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Mass General Brigham Global Advisory

Transforming healthcare globally. Together.

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Embrace Global Collaboration to Catalyze Healthcare Transformation

Mass General Brigham Global Advisory partners with organizations worldwide to solve uniquely local healthcare challenges from the development of new clinical services to improving patient experience and outcomes.

Improving healthcare beyond borders

Across our system, Mass General Brigham shares a mission to improve health care globally with the brightest minds, leading-edge research and innovation, and the most advanced medical knowledge and experience.

Our hospitals provide medical treatment and care for patients from more than 120 countries each year. In addition, we have been a trusted collaborator to organizations in over 40 countries for the past 25 years to support and build local healthcare capacity and drive transformative, sustainable improvements.

A world-leading health care system

Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care system founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital—two of America's leading academic medical centers and Harvard Medical School's largest teaching hospitals. It consists of 16 institutions that include world-renowned medical centers, top-ranked specialty hospitals, and one of the United States’ best and largest rehabilitation systems. We have 7,500 physicians and 80,000 employees.  

Mass General Brigham's vision is to build the integrated academic healthcare system of the future with patients at the center, transforming care, improving outcomes, and expanding our impact locally, nationally, and globally.

Anne Klibanski, MD

President and CEO
Mass General Brigham

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World-renowned healthcare expertise

Mass General Brigham Global Advisory is designed to extend our hospitals’ capabilities and knowledge globally and aims to drive the innovative future of clinical, research, and educational collaborations worldwide.

By leveraging the expertise of clinical and administrative thought leaders from our healthcare system, Mass General Brigham Global Advisory is uniquely positioned to provide you with access to our broader health care and innovation system, including:

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 Harvard-affiliated physicians

 Access to Harvard-affiliated physicians and renowned professors at Harvard Medical School. Train and work alongside top clinical experts and professors.

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 Biopharma hub and industry collaborations

 Our unique location in Boston, USA, has allowed us to collaborate with leaders across the life sciences industry.

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 Best in nursing

 Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are two of only 9% of hospitals in the United States to earn Magnet Recognition for nursing excellence. Our nursing leaders have created curriculum worldwide to train the next generation of nursing leaders.

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 Clinical excellence

 World-renowned clinical expertise and dedication to developing new and improved methods of care delivery and treatments. Our Mass General Brigham hospitals are consistently ranked among the best in the U.S.

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 International experience

 With 25 years of experience, we provide consulting and advisory services across the globe. Our physician, nurse, allied health, and administrative leaders know how to create solutions and adapt strategies to international healthcare environments.

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 Top in research

 We are a leader in medical research and discovery. With more than $2 billion dollars in research activity, Mass General Brigham has the largest hospital-based research program in the U.S.  There are over 3,700 ongoing clinical trials, including nearly 100 for COVID-19.

Advisory services

We recognize that increasing value and continuously improving quality are essential to maintaining excellence in the ever-changing healthcare environment. As such, we look for new ways to work together with organizations throughout the world to raise standards of care and improve the health of local communities, optimize operational performance, and deliver better value for patients, all the while helping you achieve your vision and creating and enhancing your own leading brands.

Our Harvard-affiliated physicians and subject matter experts work with new and established hospitals, healthcare systems, and health-oriented projects worldwide.  

Our premier services and deepest, long-term partnerships occur through our Advisory Services team. These strategic collaborations offer the highest level of clinical engagement and business alignment between your organization and Mass General Brigham. Multi-year partnerships with our renowned subject-matter experts build long-term, collaborative bonds between your organization and our medical and leadership teams. Together, we develop and deliver custom solutions for your local and regional needs, challenges, and growth goals. 

Most importantly, we don’t provide an assessment or recommendations alone—we are your partners in execution, guiding, and working alongside you in the challenges of bringing complex healthcare projects and services to life. Through hundreds of trips and hundreds of hours of communication between our organizations’ clinical providers and leaders, we integrate Mass General Brigham’s world-class best practices into your organization at the strategic, tactical, cultural, and infrastructure levels. 

This broad and in-depth type of collaboration can be provided to your organization in all areas of healthcare operations, including:

The Mass General Brigham system includes small- to medium-sized community and specialty hospitals, outpatient, and large, general hospitals. Our strategists and operations and design experts can translate ideation into a new hospital of integrated healthcare system offering or refine health delivery and processes already in operation.

Whether enhancing an existing service line to provide subspecialty expertise or developing an entirely new Center of Excellence, we offer the clinical depth and breadth of skilled physicians and administrators across our system. Our expertise spans virtually all specialties and subspecialties of medicine across virtual, outpatient, home health, rehabilitation, and inpatient settings.

As teaching hospitals for Harvard Medical School, we have a very strong orientation toward teaching and learning, placing the utmost value on education to best serve patients and one another. Our experts deliver virtual and in-person symposia, receive observers from your organizations at our facilities in Boston, and offer mentoring programs, as well as leadership development training.

For deep and enduring clinical and operational collaborations, we provide brand and marketing support throughout the relationship. Long-term, substantial advisory engagements with Mass General Brigham could be eligible for brand licensure.

Other areas of advisory services include clinical and organizational simulation facility design, research management, equipment assessment, quality and safety consultation, information systems, analytics and data security, digital health, and workforce development.

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Mass General Brigham Global Alliance

The Mass General Brigham Global Alliance is an affiliation membership designed for culturally aligned organizations that are well-established in their local communities and share our deep commitment to clinical excellence.

How can we help you? 

To begin exploring your collaboration with Mass General Brigham and learn how we can help your organization achieve your goals, contact us today.