United Arab Emirates
Improving Health Care Delivery in the Middle East
Our former Dubai Healthcare City entity supported Harvard Medical School's health care research, education, trainings, publications, and more.
Advancing Medical Research and Education in the Middle East
Our former local entity, HG Gulf FZ-LLC, was registered as a for-profit free zone company in Dubai Healthcare City on January 18, 2015 and deregistered as of May 1, 2020. Previously, this registration enabled us to support activities related to medical education and research within that zone. Activities included hiring local staff, holding conferences, workshops, and courses; conducting research and fellowship programs, scholarship programs, and internship programs; and the publication and dissemination of research reports.
Harvard Global Services in the UAE
Although we do not currently have a presence in the UAE, we have experience operating locally. Our regional expertise enables us to advise other programs.
Our previous registration was specific to Dubai Healthcare City and allowed us to support research and training activities related to health care. In support of those activities, we provided our standard suite of services for employment and office administration & operations.
Past Project We Supported
Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery-Dubai
From 2015-19, Harvard Medical School's (HMS) Center in Dubai served as a collaborative research, training, and policy hub to address some of the most pressing health care challenges in the UAE, the region, and the world.
The activities of the Center’s UAE hub transitioned to HMS' campus in Boston at the end of November 2019. Subsequently, our entity supporting the Center, HG Gulf FZ LLC, was deregistered on May 1, 2020.
Improving Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes
Working in tandem with faculty, staff, and students in Boston, the HMS Center in Dubai was a pivotal extension of the School's commitment to alleviating human suffering caused by diseases worldwide. The hub in Dubai enabled the HMS Center to focus on a critical step in health care delivery—using known technologies and approaches to implement high-quality health care delivery in capacity- and resource-limited settings. Dubai Healthcare City provided an important operational base to embark on such complex health interventions.
The Center’s hub enabled Harvard faculty, fellows, and staff teams in Dubai Healthcare City and Boston to collaborate with local and regional partners on research, education, and training programs.
The Center’s activities in Dubai served as a regional hub to:
- Focus on diabetes, obesity, infectious diseases, mental health, and access to surgical care.
- Educate and train a next generation of scholars and practitioners through fellowship programs, scholarships, research awards, internships, and coursework.
- Conduct and publish research on innovative approaches to addressing critical health issues and improving global health delivery.
- Formulate, discuss, and analyze policies through workshops, conferences, and events that provide practitioners with the systems and tools to alleviate human suffering.
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