Stronger Together
IFPMA is a partner of Business at OECD's Stronger Together campaign which aims to emphasize the central role of health in achieving economic security.
Overview
This campaign calls on governments and the OECD to:
- Empower populations, adopting a hands-on approach to health and making citizens champions of prevention.
- Involve Economic, Research and Employment ministers in all aspects of health policymaking as part of a whole-of-government strategy to make health systems both sustainable and resilient.
- Incentivize scientific progress and acceptance to build a better future.
- Deepen dialogue and partnerships with the business community to achieve resilience that will stand the test of time through a whole of-society paradigm shift.
Business recommendations
The Campaign puts forward a set of Business Recommendations on how governments and the OECD can make a difference:
Scale up public-private partnerships to help accelerate progress in achieving improvements in the health sector and to shape the approach from a corrective to a preventive one.
Adopt a long-term approach on investment in healthcare by engaging the business community to outline what scientific innovations are needed in the next ten years and the required funding to accelerate their discovery and access.
BIAC stands ready to contribute to a regular platform addressing long-term opportunities, including leveraging the OECD Joint Network on the Financial Sustainability of Healthcare Systems to make it a trailblazing hub for international and regional collaboration to align countries’ investment priorities.
Protect and incentivize the innovation ecosystem as a fundamental pillar for resilience, and together with OECD facts and guidance, outline how continuity of supply chains are fundamental elements to deliver new technologies for populations—both for infectious diseases and chronic illnesses, including cancer.
Provide evidence on the returns on investment and the economic and societal footprint that innovations and public-private partnerships in the life sciences sector bring and quantify their contributions to improving health outcomes.
Develop an economic case for the implementation of novel pull incentives for antibiotics that reward innovation and can help revitalize the pipeline.
Business at OECD Health Forum
Business at OECD Health Forum unites business leaders, OECD delegates, civil society, and global stakeholders to shape the future of health.
The next edition of the Health Forum will take place in Paris on 3 December 2025, under the theme Healthcare’s Competitive Future: From Reactive Systems to Economic Catalysts, and will explore how health can drive prosperity, resilience, and well-being in a time of rapid change.
Business at OECD (BIAC)
Business at OECD (BIAC) speaks for business at the OECD. Established in 1962, BIAC stands for policies that enable businesses of all sizes to contribute to growth, economic development, and prosperity.
Through Business at OECD, national business and employers federations and their members provide expertise to the OECD and governments for competitive economies, better business, and better lives.