GE Healthcare demonstrated its leadership by becoming the first organization to sponsor the Pacific Health Summit and has continued to support the Summit each year. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) employing more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. GE Healthcare is an integral part of GE’s “healthymagination” vision to help customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, the program will improve the health and competitiveness of GE’s employees and encourages GE Healthcare to partner with healthcare leaders and governments striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. For more information on healthymagination, please click here.

ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded international oil and natural gas company, uses technology and innovation to help meet the world's growing energy needs. ExxonMobil engages in a range of philanthropic activities that advance education, health and science in the communities where ExxonMobil has significant operations. Globally, ExxonMobil provides funding to improve basic education, promote women as catalysts for development, and combat malaria. Since 2000, ExxonMobil and the ExxonMobil Foundation have contributed more than $110 million to fight malaria, supporting efforts to distribute bed nets, develop anti-malaria medication and provide early treatment and prevention programs.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft's global vision enables its diverse workforce to generate innovative ideas and develop new technology. Through these ideas, Microsoft has developed the deep foundation necessary to support the communities that we work and live in each day.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a publicly-funded organization dedicated to improving human health. MRC supports research across the entire spectrum of medical sciences, in universities and hospitals, in their own units and institutes in the UK, and in their units in Africa.

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. Led by Coca-Cola, the Company's portfolio features 15 billion dollar brands including Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero, vitaminwater, Powerade, Minute Maid, Simply, Georgia and Del Valle. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy these beverages at a rate of 1.7 billion servings a day. Consumers who want to reduce the calories they consume from beverages can choose from the company's expanding portfolio of no- and low-calorie beverages as well as regular beverages in smaller portion sizes. Coca-Cola provides more than 800 no- and low-calorie beverages, nearly 25% of its global portfolio. Nineteen of its top 20 brands have a low- or no-calorie alternative or are low- or no-calorie. People are increasingly making informed choices about what they eat and drink. Coca-Cola thinks that is good news for everyone and is innovating to provide consumers with more choices and information while helping to promote active, healthy living in communities around the world.

The Center for Sustainable Health (CSH) at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute harnesses technology, economics and behavior to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial and human cost of disease. To sustain human health, the center believes that health systems must shift their current focus from expensive and ineffective late-stage disease response toward highly cost-effective or cost-saving prevention and early intervention strategies. To support this effort, CSH seeks the active collaborative engagement of key stakeholders: governments, public and private health insurers, regulatory bodies, basic research institutes, industry, and innovative care delivery systems around the world. The Center for Sustainable Health is among a dozen research centers located within the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU), the New American University. Biodesign conducts use-inspired research, fusing intellectual disciplines and fostering entrepreneurship, for global challenges in human health, environmental sustainability and national security technologies.

Miraca Holdings Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, provides a wide variety of clinical diagnostic products and over 4,000 clinical testing services through its affiliated companies, including Fujirebio Inc. and SRL, Inc. With its primary focus on developing, manufacturing, and marketing of in vitro diagnostics, medical devices, and testing services, Miraca Holdings is and will be committed to global healthcare.

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that conducts advanced research on policy-relevant issues in Asia. It also serves as the global clearinghouse for Asian research conducted by specialists and institutions worldwide. Through these activities NBR is uniquely positioned to promote informed and effective U.S. policy toward the region.

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, we focus on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, we seek to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the Foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-Chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is an independent, nonprofit research institution dedicated to the development of lifesaving therapies through biomedical research. The center is recognized for its pioneering and leading-edge research that is focused on eliminating cancer and many other devastating diseases.

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. It supports the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. The Trust’s breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. It is independent of both political and commercial interests.