About us
French Healthcare is an innovative public-private initiative aimed at bringing together under a single banner all the players in the French healthcare ecosystem (businesses, researchers, healthcare professionals, key public stakeholders, etc.) to jointly promote their activities, expertise, technologies and innovations internationally.
It contributes to trigger a collective approach dynamic that stimulates international cooperation in the healthcare field and to promote the vision that health, a vector of social progress, must be improved for everyone everywhere in the world.
French Healthcare is supported by:
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
which promotes and relays French Healthcare both diplomatically and institutionally.
French Healthcare Association
The association brings together stakeholders from the French healthcare ecosystem to promote French expertise and know-how internationally.
By showcasing French healthcare excellence around the world and enhancing France’s global attractiveness, French Healthcare Association helps its members expand their networks, access new business opportunities, and strengthen their international presence.
Business France
the national agency supporting the internationalization of the French economy, responsible for fostering export growth by French businesses, as well as promoting and facilitating international investment in France. It promotes France’s companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location.
The initiative also benefits from international mobilization on the part of the Ministry for the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, the Ministry for Solidarity and Health, the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation; of French regions, and of key public and private entities involved in the healthcare sector, development and trade such as professional associations, business organizations, hospitals, research institutes, innovation clusters and universities.
In 2017, French Healthcare’s launch was supported by numerous businesses and other entities:
France, a key player in global healthcare
LFrance is a leading player in healthcare worldwide and boasts considerable advantages:
- a reference healthcare system that is recognized among OECD nations for access to healthcare ;
- excellent training for healthcare professionals, recognized for their high level of expertise ;
- cutting-edge research in numerous fields that enjoys international renown ;
- one of the highest-performing pharmaceutical industries in the world ;
- a renowned capacity for innovation in all healthcare fields, including medical devices, oncology, chronic and infectious diseases, digital health, the silver economy and more ;
- a dynamic and innovative ecosystem that includes startups, SMEs and large corporations.
French Healthcare is a collective commitment to that ecosystem. French healthcare players are mobilized every day to improve the quality of healthcare management for patients of all ages, at home or in the hospital, and to provide solutions adapted to major contemporary public-health challenges around the world: new infectious risks, the globalization of care, demographic growth and transition, the growing impact of non-communicable diseases, digitalization and other technological revolutions, and more.
French Healthcare showcases all of those dimensions internationally.
Who does French Healthcare reach out to?
French Healthcare reaches out to foreign partners, including businesses in the medical or pharmaceutical sectors, distributors, hospitals and nursing homes, doctors and the medical profession in the broadest sense, investors, public purchasers, financial backers, patients and their families, journalists and influencers, etc.
Its goals are to:
- introduce and promote the French healthcare ecosystem internationally through communication and influence campaigns, promotional events and its presence at major international trade shows, as well as by welcoming international delegations interested in the French healthcare model and France’s expertise and technological solutions ;
- develop commercial, medical and scientific partnerships between French and international players in the healthcare field ;
- coproduce innovative solutions adapted to each country’s context via partnerships with foreign players ;
- promote training for healthcare professionals and the reception of foreign patients in France.
Vision
French Healthcare contributes to promoting France’s vision in terms of global healthcare, which is founded on a humanist approach to care and on fair and equitable access to healthcare products and services.
French Healthcare defends the idea that as a vector of social progress, healthcare must be improved for everyone, all over the world.
Improving healthcare for all
Values
French healthcare players’ humanist, grassroots, scientific and collective approach is guided by key values:
Excellence
Universalism
Efficiency
Science-based progress
Mission
French Healthcare is a collective brand that promotes France’s attractiveness in terms of healthcare and stimulates growth for French exports and international investments in France in the healthcare field, thanks to integrated, adapted solutions to healthcare challenges in countries around the world.
Network
The French Healthcare network is made up of French healthcare players who are all contributing to showcasing French expertise abroad: businesses, institutions, municipalities, public-service providers, learned societies, Chambers of Commerce in France and abroad, and overseas trade advisors. They include:
French Healthcare Association and its members
Whether they are French healthcare businesses of all sizes, professional federations, research centers, or hospitals and clinics, members of the French Healthcare Association are all committed to promoting French players and to a collective mobilization of French healthcare expertise abroad.
They are the ambassadors and representatives of French Healthcare’s values and missions abroad.
French Healthcare Clubs
The French Healthcare Club is a French governmental initiative intended to unite important players on the international healthcare market with French businesses whose activities involve healthcare concepts and/or services and products. Under the supervision of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Club is co-run in France by Business France, the national agency supporting the internationalization of the French economy, and by a French private-sector entity.
Currently, there are 13 French Healthcare Clubs around the world, in China, Russia, Brazil, Algeria, Italy, Turkey, South Korea, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Vietnam, Morocco and Thailand.
French Healthcare Clubs’ mission is to communicate about French businesses in their region and to promote high-level public relations with foreign healthcare authorities in order to collaborate on common issues and to establish partnerships with local players.
Business France offices around the world
The Business France network counts 750 staff members across 71 offices in 53 countries. It supports French companies in expanding into new export markets, assists foreign businesses with investment and establishment projects in France, and promotes the strengths and attractiveness of France internationally.
By opening new markets to French companies and enhancing France’s appeal to foreign investors, Business France pursues a single objective: driving business activity and creating jobs.
The French diplomatic network
ith more than 160 embassies and consulates worldwide, France has one of the most extensive diplomatic networks in the world. Within the framework of the French Healthcare brand, this network acts as a strategic lever for influence, visibility, and international deployment of the French health sector.
In close coordination with the economic departments, embassies actively support the international development of French healthcare actors by:
- Promoting France’s health diplomacy in partner countries,
- Facilitating high-level institutional and business connections,
- Showcasing French expertise during official visits, sector missions, and international events,
- And relaying French Healthcare initiatives to key foreign decision-makers.
Backed by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the owner of the French Healthcare brand, this network ensures a coherent and impactful mobilization in support of the international expansion of French healthcare companies and institutions.With over 160 embassies and consulates worldwide, France’s diplomatic network actively supports the international development of its healthcare sector.