The #1 Association for Health Care Policy,
Education, and Professional Development and Support for
Medical Tourism and Medical Travel Professionals
CGIH’s members play a crucial role on the forefront of globally integrated health delivery and medical tourism every day. The Advisory Board and Members represent a cross-section of industry, private business, labor, government and academia.
Our Purpose
To create a sustainable organization made up of diverse individuals empowered to make decisions that will continuously build the medical travel and globally integrated health care industry.
We will build the organization as a collaborative project dedicated to providing and building the largest and most comprehensive knowledge base for medical tourism and globally integrated healthcare.
Organization
The CGIH is a non-profit, tax-exempt global NGO that is incorporated exclusively for the development and advancement of global health policy, scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes.
The Council on the Global Integration of Healthcare
Mission Statement
To develop and support our members and thought leaders and establish and influence global policy that will help the medical travel and global healthcare travel community address critical health care, patient safety, quality, and health policy challenges in an increasingly complex, multi-disciplinary, interconnected and interdependent world.
Core Values
Practice and pursue excellence in all that we do.
Operate as an interdisciplinary, interdependent team.
Believe in the importance of individuals.
Support and encourage innovation and creativity.
With strict fiscal responsibility, we adopt prudent business approaches.
We aim to continuously create and contribute value for the industry.
Our Vision
Transform medical tourism from a novelty to a globally-integrated continuum of quality and accessible health care.
Create globally-accepted quality metrics and standards of professional practice to promote patient and traveler safety.
Promote and facilitate accessible and affordable quality health services in a coordinated care continuum.
Support mutually beneficial, collaborative, interrelated and interdependent domains of medicine, travel and health care informatics needed to connect the global care continuum.
Contribute to the organized, controlled and quality development of health policy and health care standards and statistical reporting that respects the character, diversity, and scale of globally-integrated health care.
Lead an organized effort to improve the quality of community life at home and abroad as one cohesive global community.
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