Global Partnerships
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.
Our research and teaching hospitals
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Mass Eye and Ear
- McLean Hospital
- Spaulding Rehabilitation
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
Clinical collaborations
Targeted clinical partnerships to elevate care delivery and build clinical excellence.
We collaborate with healthcare organizations to enhance clinical capabilities in targeted areas of care. These focused partnerships are designed to strengthen specific service lines or centers of excellence through direct clinical engagement, knowledge transfer, and care delivery support. Clinical collaboration engagements are flexible in scope and duration, allowing organizations to accelerate capability building while maintaining operational independence.
Transformational partnerships
A long-term partnership to design, develop, and operate integrated health systems—driving measurable impact at scale.
We partner with healthcare organizations to co-create and deliver system-level transformation through deep, long-term collaboration.
Working side-by-side with our partners, we develop and operationalize high-performing clinical programs, centers of excellence, and system capabilities aligned to local priorities and grounded in Mass General Brigham’s world-class standards of care and clinical excellence.
We embed Mass General Brigham’s clinical, operational, and leadership practices—bringing our model of care delivery, governance, and performance management into real-world settings.
Through sustained operational involvement, we support the launch, scale, and ongoing delivery of services while building local capabilities and enabling long-term sustainability.
These partnerships are designed to evolve over many years, enabling organizations to expand capabilities, strengthen key services, and achieve measurable improvements in patient outcomes.
Advisory services
Insight-driven, evidence-based advisory to assess, optimize, and enable high-performing healthcare systems.
We provide advisory services grounded in analytical rigor, real-world experience, and the depth of expertise across Mass General Brigham’s integrated health system.
Our teams combine clinical, operational, and strategic perspectives to develop insights that are data-driven and aligned with shared priorities defined with our partners.
Drawing on the breadth of Mass General Brigham’s capabilities—from care delivery to research, education, and innovation—we bring proven models and practical experience to address complex healthcare challenges.
Our approach goes beyond recommendations. We work closely with leadership teams to translate analysis into actionable plans that support implementation—ensuring strategies are both practical and sustainable.
As a mission-driven organization, we focus on strengthening local capabilities, advancing quality of care, and enabling long-term impact across healthcare systems.