NISU is an inter-agency, horizontal, technical cooperation initiative. Its purpose is to exchange experiences and practical knowledge with other countries, both inside and outside the region, inspired by principles of fraternity and solidarity. It's especially based on Sustainable Development Goal 17 "partnerships for the goals" and support better societies for the future. The Expo is a good opportunity to reinforce our international commitment to collaborate in solving global challenges.

NISU considers three complementing areas of action: i) the need to generate health intelligence to support decision-making processes; ii) the importance of making the tacit knowledge of organizations explicit; and iii) the regional mandate to strengthen horizontal cooperation between countries.

Likewise, NISU was created to support health decision-making by centralizing and analyzing health data to improve the efficiency of health systems, and making tacit knowledge more explicit. Collaborate with the international community to facilitate access to the accumulated knowledge about the progress made by the Uruguayan health system and to strengthen the Latin American community as a global leader. Also, the impact on society is to improve public health by being able to analyze and systematize data that can identify patterns of diseases or outbreaks and risk factors, facilitating access to health information for citizens, and improving education and prevention.

NISU also contributes to improving the long-term sustainability of the health system, enabling a faster and more coordinated response to epidemics, minimizing their impact on society and the environment.

Challenges like climate change, migration, vulnerable populations, and diverse diseases, , among others, are circumstances that cannot be addressed at the national level alone, and collaboration between countries must be rethought. There is a need to build more resilient societies, systems, and work under the concept of ̈One Health ̈ in which the human, animal, and environmental ecosystems are articulated.

Cooperation with Uruguay can optimize the institutional capacities of the recipient country and foster the exchange of knowledge and lessons learned between the parties, facilitate the transfer of technologies or innovations, contribute to the national dialogue on health policies and promote reforms in the recipient country.

Collaboration between countries can support sub-regional and regional integration processes, as well as contribute to global health policy debates. In addition, it can stimulate the development of strategic alliances around common problems to achieve joint solutions.

We work with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through South-South and triangular cooperation mechanisms, technical assistance or research but we would like to expand to several continents and we are open to collaborate with the public sector, private sector, civil society, academia (with emphasis on world-class research centers), foundations, philanthropy, etc. We currently collaborate with cooperation agencies, Ministries and other institutions in LAC, USA, Spain and UK but would like to expand our links to other regions such as Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania.

We are open to collaborate and receive requests from diverse actors that nurture our experience, such as the private sector (health care providers, centers, industries, business chambers), public sector (cooperation agencies, ministries and other institutions of this origin), academia (universities, research centers, think tanks, etc.), foundations and philanthropies, international organizations and development banks (e.g. United Nations agencies, CAF, IDB, WB, EU, among others), and civil society (ej. NGOs). If there are other institutions of a different nature, we are willing to evaluate the request for cooperation.

NISU through its team of experts in different disciplines from various national and international organizations, the contribution of its research network in health policies and systems that integrates case studies and comparative studies between countries, scientific evidence for decision making, information repository in health, as well as contributing to the transfer of best practices to third countries and reach regional and global health debates, supports the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2030 Agenda and PABA + 40 principles.
The initiative is aligned to the human-centered society concept and PAHO One Health which integrate, unify and optimize the health of people to better understand the co-benefits, risks, trade-offs and opportunities to advance equitable and holistic solutions focus on the community, subnational, national, regional and global levels, and relies on shared and effective governance, communication, collaboration and coordination.

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