About HAPI

Health Action Partnership International (HAPI) brings together leading professionals and organisations with skills and experience from across a broad spectrum of action to promote and maintain health.

Organisation structure

 HAPI is made up of the following:

• Global Council
• Regional Representatives
• Partners
• Secretariat
• A wider network of stakeholders

Expertise

We are able to draw on expertise from:

• policy makers
• practitioners and professionals
• representatives of international organisations and networks
• national experts
• leading academics and researchers
• representatives of non-governmental organisations
• business leaders.

Experts are from across the world including high, middle and low-income countries in Asia, Africa, Australasia, the Americas and Europe.

Interests

Interests of partners include:

• the social determinants of health

  • early child development and education

  • globalization

  • health systems

  • measurement and evidence

  • urbanization and living conditions

  • employment conditions

  • social exclusion

  • priority public health conditions

  • women and gender equity

• health in all policies
• health inequality and inequity
• health improvement
• health promotion
• public health
• social marketing
• primary health care
• national and regional policy
• health and social care systems
• research and evaluation
• organisational development and management systems
• capacity building
• course development and distance learning
• community development
• health economics and cost effectiveness
• evaluation

Experience

We draw on extensive international experience developed through a national technical assistance programme, facilitated in liaison with WHO since 1995.