Seed Global Health

Overview

Vision

A just, equitable, and healthy world.

Mission

Expand access to quality care and improve health outcomes for all.

Seed Global Health (Seed) advances its mission through deep partnerships deeply to strengthen the health systems in the countries where they work, with a special focus on strengthening the professional health workforce.

Founded in 2012, Seed Global Health (Seed) has helped train more than 45,000 health workers who provide care in facilities that reach over 76 million people.

Seed believes that strong, resilient health systems must have sufficient well-trained, well-equipped, and well-supported health workers to deliver high quality care to their communities. When these critical needs are met, Seed believes improved health outcomes can be achieved. 

To address these needs, Seed works closely with governments to create long-term partnerships with health professional schools, health facilities, regulatory bodies, and professional associations. Their context-driven, country-led approach is grounded in deep partnership with the institutions with whom they work. They take into account the specific challenges and priorities of each setting, ensuring that their inputs, strategies, and activities are responsive, relevant, and aligned with collective goals of the partnership

Seed’s Strategy 

Seed employs a coordinated, multi-pronged strategy across the three interdependent pathways. Their program strategies aim to: 

• Build self-sustaining, high-quality health professional education programs and schools
• Strengthen healthcare delivery at supported facilities 
• Advocate for critical investments in the health workforce

Seed’s work is guided by core implementation strategies that form the foundation of all their partnerships and pathways. In addition, they use tailored, customized approaches that enable their partners to address specific health challenges or expand into new specialties. Across all pathways, their program strategies are carefully designed to deliver meaningful results, add value, and create lasting impact.

Their Inputs: Supporting Partnerships and Pathways

Seed invests in the following resources to support their partners across all three pathways, tailoring their inputs based on context to maximize impact.

• Human Resources. They recruit and hire professionals with the right skills to accompany their partners as they strengthen the health workforce, including educators, clinical instructors, clinical advisors, policy advisors, and specialists embedded in health ministries.
• Technical Resources. They connect their partners with the tailored academic, clinical, and health systems resources they require. This includes evidence-based quality improvement practices, development of curricula, teaching resources, proven policy tools, and more. 
• Material Resources. They provide supplies and equipment to support the pre-service education environment, in-service healthcare delivery, and national emergency response efforts. Where critical to foster an enabling environment to sustain and implement programming, Seed may support refurbishment and renovation of infrastructure.
• Financial Resources. They provide targeted financial resources to support their partners’ efforts to deliver quality education, health, and other services. This funding is designed to enhance capacity, foster innovation, and address critical needs identified by their partners.