AMARA is an umbrella organization of institutions, organizations and businesses of related strategic interests, to create a model that will prototype universal health care for rural China and all emerging and developing populations. To present these models as a viable, sustainable and adaptable entitlement by the Chinese Government.

In partnership with Surmang Foundation, Soong Ching Ling Foundation, Wu Jie Ping Foundation, Beijing University Medical School of Public Health.

Hon. Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor

Aims

• To create sustainable viable models health care system for health promotion rural areas
• To increase access to health among the rural poor of China
• enable earlier intervention with pro-active preventative strategies
• create energetic outreach, maintain high standards of provider capacity
• create a greater sense of community participation and ownership
• Models will be based around indigenous philosophies, aspirations and social networks and economic realities
• To create long lasting beneficial outputs that will be scalable in all developing nations

Beneficiaries

• 28 million living under ¥1/day to the widest:
• 130 million living on under $1/day

Specific Goals

Membership Organization among Chinese Government, medical schools, public health schools, non-government organizations, international foundations, multinational corporations:

• Chinese Institutions
  • MOH
  • Beijing Medical University Public Health
• Foreign Governments, Aid Organizations
  • SIDA
  • USAID
  • Norwegian Ministry of Health
• China Foundations
  • Wu Jie Ping Foundation
  • Soong Ching Ling Foundation
• Foreign Foundations
  • Gates Fnd
  • Gordon
• Seek membership support from member MNC’s (multinational corporations in the IT, drug, health and education fields)
  • Intel
  • Apple
  • Pfizer
  • Bayer
  • Daimler Chysler
  • Shaklee
  • MedChina
  • Siemens China
  • Steris Corporation
  • Chindex
  • ChinaCast
  • Foreign HMO’s

Activities

A high visibility conference on rural poor health care with:

• high level government, MNC, GONGO, NGO participation
• input and benefit from ground-level health providers from village, township, county, provincial levels

Projects

• Create a network of 30 or more rural clinics connected to eachother via IT as described in the IHP outline
• Increase the capacity among the providers of medical care, and the infrastructure to deliver this care and capacity
  • support curriculum development for rural family medicine
  • creative support for other systemic solutions such as dme (distance medical education; website), as meds delivery and inventory, related to creating access among the rural poor, improving in the poor rural region defined by the narrowest

Legal

• registered entity in China
• registered entity in US, EU

Management

• Board of Directors consisting of representatives from leading Government Agencies, Institutions of Higher Education, Professional Organizations, MNC’s, GONGO’s NGO’s
• Management provided by Surmang Foundation
• Financial audits provided by Chinese

Research Papers

The World's Most Deprived: Characteristics and Causes of Extreme Poverty and Hunger