Health Care Trade Missions
Since 1999, the Nashville Health Care Council and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce have hosted more than 200 senior-level health care leaders, representing nearly 75 companies, on nine international Health Care Trade Missions. During a pivotal time for health care policy in the U.S., these international exchanges provide insights and perspectives that better prepare Nashville executives to contribute to policy discussions and instill best practices in their own companies.
Previous missions have taken place in London & Cologne (1999); Paris & Madrid (2000); Brussels, Milan & Rome (2002); London & Amsterdam (2003); Budapest & Prague (2004); Warsaw & Vienna (2006); Stockholm & Berlin (2008); London & Edinburgh (2010); and Santiago & Buenos Aires (2010).
Trade Mission activities typically include meetings with:
- Top public-sector health care policy officials and elected representatives
- Key economic leaders and health care industry analysts
- United States ambassadors, commercial service and other in-country U.S. officials
- Key industry leaders from major hospital groups, insurance groups and health care trade associations
Trade Mission goals:
- Gain a better understanding of the health care systems in the countries visited
- Meet with key public- and private-sector officials and entrepreneurs to establish ongoing relationships and dialogue on common challenges, sharing knowledge and experience of health-care-related issues
- Seek mutually profitable business relationships
- Showcase Nashville’s health care industry
For more information, please contact Blewett Melton at 615-743-3052 or bmelton@nashvillechamber.com.
International Trade Mission Photo Gallery