Major global health players are gearing up to change where and how they work, with the launch of a new Health Campus, due to open in Geneva in March 2018.

The campus will bring together the Global Fund, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Unitaid and other health organizations already based in the city with the twin goals of fostering synergies and reducing costs.

“The Health Campus embodies our 21st century approach. It is modern, cost effective and designed to foster collaboration, both within the Global Fund and with several of our partners,” the Global Fund’s head of communications, Seth Faison, told Devex.

Through 2018, a total of 1,300 staff will relocate to the "Jardin des Nations" area of the city, a few blocks away from the World Health Organization and nearby development and humanitarian organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Global Fund will move its headquarters to the campus in March, and Gavi is expected to follow in July.

The campus was conceived by the Swiss mission to the United Nations in 2008 to serve as a center for global health in Geneva. Construction began in 2015 on land provided by the canton, or regional authority, with the 28,000 square meter building financed by Credit Suisse, which will lease it to the organizations.

Read the full article about Global Fund and Gavi's partnership by Gloria Pallares at Devex International Development.