AMPATH Principles

AMPATH’s principles are central to guiding our global network as we work to build partnerships based on mutual trust and respect between universities and academic health centers to strengthen health systems, tackle health disparities, train future global health leaders, and foster healthcare research and innovation around the world.

1. Shared belief in health as a fundamental right: Partners share the belief that health is a fundamental right and holistic care is needed.
2. Accountable to community needs: Programming is designed based on needs identified by host partners.
3. Counterpart relationships: Host Partners lead the way in their own countries.
4. Enabling training and research: Fosters a health ecosystem that enables research and training of the health workforce.
5. Long-term engagement and equitable partnership: Partners commit to long-term and equitable partnerships with mutual benefit and are responsive to institutional needs.
6. Leveraging institutions: Leverages power and responsibility of institutions of higher learning and their health system partners.
7. Collective impact: Institutions work together in a deliberately complementary and collaborative way.
8. Self-correction: Ability to make mistakes and self-correct.
9. Reciprocal innovation: Collaborative innovation with mutual benefit