Industry Analysis
Many targeted communities around the world still have a wide range of public health issues to overcome, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and other infectious diseases; the emergence of chronic disease epidemics; and child and maternal mortality. The primary contributing factors for the continued public health crisis in LMICs are health inequalities, inaccessibility to healthcare, and lapses inadequate healthcare infrastructure and treatment.
MHS is convinced that the most sustainable, culturally appropriate solutions to health problems are best developed and carried out by the people that routinely experience these problems. This has been evidenced by the global response to HIV/AIDS, where local entities affected the most significant impact in addressing and mitigating the pandemic. Research shows that local-led healthcare solutions can benefit community participants, healthcare providers, researchers and policymakers alike. Local-led healthcare solutions have the potential to bridge scientists with communities through the use of shared knowledge and valuable experiences. Such collaborations may foster culturally-appropriate initiatives and measures and, thus making projects more effective, efficient scalable and sustainable because local communities are empowered, own these projects and take up needed measures for results. The utmost benefit desired from such collaborations is a greater understanding of a local community’s unique circumstances, and more accurate health practices being tested and adapted to the community’s needs.
Value Proposition
There is a significant need to assist local game-changing individuals and organizations around the world to develop and deliver relevant and sustainable public health programs for the populations they serve. MHS will work with governmental bodies, civil societies, healthcare professionals, and external donors, to respond to priority public health problems. We offer the capacity building expertise needed to enable local entities attain the proper governance and management structures to adequately roll out and sustain their public health programming. Components of the capacity building will include, but not be limited to, helping develop strategic plans, improving fundraising and proposal development capabilities, assist with optimizing business management and administration processes, and guide design and implementation of impactful public health programs.
Competitive Advantage
Public health organizations performing activities similar to the ones we propose have been known to incur overhead costs of up to 35% of project direct costs, which means that only 65% of the budget is available for programming. MHS offers a comparative advantage with an estimated overhead cost percentage not to exceed 20% of any overall project direct costs. MHS will manage this by maintaining a cost effective approach to resource management and allocation, and lower overall administrative and operating expenses. Furthermore, MHS’ core staff is well equipped to address a vast array of consultancy needs from various remote locations around the world using the latest, most affordable technology. A small office suite will serve as corporate/ administrative headquarters, with the majority of the work conducted virtually and on site, locally. MHS’ promise of a lower overhead estimate and cost efficient corporate infrastructure comes with ensuring organizational effectiveness and a guarantee to effectively deliver outstanding services, second to none.
