M8 Alliance

M8 Alliance Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies


M8 Alliance website

The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies is a prestigious grouping of organisations committed to improving global health through research collaboration, evaluation of best practice in medical education, exchange of ideas and providing an academic foundation to the annual World Health Summit in Berlin - the pre-eminent global gathering for academia, industry, government and non-government organisations - influencing the agenda for global health policy.

Monash University is a significant contributor to the M8 Alliance and the only member from Australia.

The M8 Alliance is a growing network and currently consists of 28 members in 19 countries, including the InterAcademy Partnership, which represents the national academies of medicine and science in 130 countries.

The 2009 foundation members of the M8 Alliance are:

  • Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
  • Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
  • Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences / Peking Union Medical College, China
  • Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
  • Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)
  • International Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC)

Through expansion, the M8 Alliance membership now includes:

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
  • Makerere University, Uganda
  • University of Montreal, Canada
  • University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • National University of Singapore
  • University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Montreal Clinical Research Institute, Canada
  • Istanbul University, Turkey
  • Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
  • Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
  • Coimbra Health, Portugal
  • National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
  • World Federation of Academic Institutions for Global Health (WFAIGH)
  • Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), USA
  • Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Milken Institute School of Public Health, USA