In episode 3, we speak with Colm Carroll, Scientific Project Manager at IHI (formerly IMI), to discuss the largest public private partnership (PPP) of its kind in healthcare, in the world, serving the European region. Colm discusses his own role, as well as IMI, running for more than a decade in driving innovation in healthcare, and the new IHI, which is widening scope and scale of the programme. We explore his role with the many, diverse projects he works with across the health data domain, including EHDEN.

Colm provides many insights into the opportunities afforded by IHI with regards to supporting public private collaborations through project consortia, addressing critical public health priorities for Europe, as well as facilitating the access to innovation in healthcare for EU citizens. We focus on impact being a key performance indicator for IMI/IHI, and explore the differences between IMI and IHI, in particular related to scope, processes and the widening of the private contribution from Pharmaceutical to include Diagnostics and MedTech. For anyone wanting to be involved in a project like EHDEN and the myriad of others, this is a very informative episode. 

The views expressed by the participants are personal and not necessarily reflective of their organisations.