This document discusses how public-private partnerships (PPPs) could help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides examples of PPP projects in different countries, including Australia partnering with the private sector to secure hospital beds and nurses, India launching a contact tracing mobile app developed through PPPs, and the EU funding vaccine research through a partnership between the public and pharmaceutical sectors. The document also describes an American consortium of government, academia and industry working together on COVID-19 research through shared high-performance computing resources.

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How PPPs and non-public actors
could contribute to combating
COVID-19?
CASE STUDIES

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COVID-19 Pandemic is not an isolated event
How to respond to COVID-19 pandemic and ....prepare for the next
epidemic too (Bill Gates)
Last decades several incidences of the spread of new, deadly viruses
occurred, e.g. SARS, MERS, Ebola, MERS-CoV, Nipah virus, avian
influenza, cholera, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus.
More than 1 mln people infected
COVID-19 pandemic started off as a public health crisis but is quickly
morphing into a major economic and social crisis.
More than 60 000 deaths

3. Problem “We Are Building An Airplane While Flying It“
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Governments and policy-makers scramble to react and respond to
COVID-19 and are urgently in search for immediate innovative
solutions and alternatives to close the gap in delivery of healthcare
services and healthcare infrastructure, inter alia:
• tracking and understanding the spread of the virus;
• ensuring patients get the care they need, and frontline workers
get essential supplies and information;
• accelerating efforts to develop vaccines, tests and treatments.
It creates new opportunities for the private sector, civil society
groups, community groups, the media, and academia to work alongside
and share their expertise and resources.

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CASE STUDIES

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Australia announced a healthcare sector public-
private partnership to fight the deadly
coronavirus pandemic. The Australian
government will partner with the private sector
to secure 30,000 hospital beds and 105,000
nurses and staff.
The federal government will offer agreements to
657 private and not-for-profit hospitals to ensure
their viability, in return for maintenance and
capacity during the COVID-19 response.
International Examples of PPP Projects for COVID-19

6. International Examples of PPP projects for COVID-19
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New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and IT
launched a mobile app on Thursday called
AarogyaSetu which will help people in
identifying the risk of getting affected by the
Corona Virus.
The app is built through public - private
partnership and assesses themselves the risk for
their catching the Corona virus infection. It will
calculate using cutting edge Bluetooth
technology, algorithms and artificial
intelligence.
Photo by Prashanth Pinha on Unsplash

7. Examples of Research Partnership Projects for COVID-19
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The EU is backing a new €90 million public
private partnership to develop a vaccine against
the COVID-19 coronavirus, as the epidemic
spreads further in Europe.
The €90 million will be channelled through the
Innovative Medicines Initiative, a partnership
between the EU and the pharmaceutical
industry. “This includes €45 million of
contribution from pharma companies,” said
Janez Lenarčič, EU commissioner for crisis
management and European emergency response
coordinator.

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The US government, academia and industry
struck a public-private partnership Called the
COVID-19 High Performance Computing
Consortium to allow researchers tackling COVID-
19 and to access to high performance
computing resources. Researchers can submit
proposals to gain access to the high-end
computing resources.
Members of the consortium include IBM, Amazon
Web Services and Google Cloud, and the
Department of Energy national labs, which host
some of the world's most powerful
supercomputers. The consortium represents 16
systems accounting for more than 330 petaflops,
775,000 CPU cores and 34,000 GPUs, Dario Gil,
director of IBM Research.
International Examples of PPP Projects for COVID-19

9. Natalia Korchakova-Heeb
Managing Director
SDG.17 Consulting GmbH
Staufenstraße 33, 60323
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Email: info@sdg17consulting.de
Linkedin
Eng. Natalia Korchakova-Heeb is an internationally recognised expert in
sustainable infrastructure, public procurement, public-private
partnerships and international technical assistance with experience in
the public, private and non-governmental sectors.
• PPP-Speaker for the German Health Alliance
• Coordinator of working groups on partnerships and digital solutions
for global health within the Global Health Hub Germany
• Member of the Strategic Committee of the World Association of PPP
Units an PPP professionals
• Certified expert of IFC EDGE ”Green Buildings”
• Twice fellow of the International Policy Fellowship (Hungary), a
fellow of the Freedom Support Act Fellowship in Contemporary Issues
(USA).
Our Leadership
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10. Who We Are?
We operate at the crossroads between various sectors to promote SDG Agenda
and, in particular, SDG.3.
We design new sustainable delivery models for public-private partnerships in the
healthcare sector.
We work to embed social impact in every business making and and advocate
policies and practices that encourage the development of low-carbon, climate-
resilient infrastructure delivered through sustainable and people-first public-
private partnerships.
SDG.17 Consulting GmbH
SDG.17 Consulting GmbH is a member of German Health Alliance, Global Health
Hub Germany, German PPP Association (BPPP e.V.), UN Women National
Committee Germany e.V., German Federal Association for Sustainability, Society
for International Development (Frankfurt Chapter) and Informal Interagency Task
Team of the United Nations on Sustainable Sourcing in the Health Sector (SPHS).
SDG.17 Consulting GmbH
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11. We are the Winners of Several Competitions
• Winnining Team of „New Ideas for Global Health
“Competition of Global Health Hub -Germany“,
Initiative of the Ministiry of Health of Germany
(13 January 2020)
• SDG.17 Consulting GmbH - Top-3 Innovative Startups,
Diplomatic Council (7 February 2020)
• Finalist of G20 InfraChallenge organised by the Global
Infrastructure Hub (6 April 2020)
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Team members with the Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn.
13 January 2020, Berlin, Germany

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Eng. Natalia Korchakova-Heeb
PPP-Speaker, German Health Alliance
Coordinator of WG on Partnerships
Global Health Hub Germany
Leader, PPPHealth4All
Managing Director
SDG.17 Consulting GmbH, HRB N.112900
Staufenstraße 33, 60323, Frankfurt am Main
e-mail: info@sdg17consulting.de
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