Saudi Arabia’s 35 million population and Vision 2030 offer a significant opportunity to expand modern healthcare, driven by a large market, supportive policies, and a young, health-focused population.
Welcome to Abdul Latif Jameel Health Saudi Arabia
Abdul Latif Jameel Health Accelerating Access to unmet Medical Needs
We are committed to adding real, tangible value, not only to all our business partner relationships but also to communities within Saudi Arabia. As a solutions partner, we strongly believe in success through service – working together with stakeholders; taking a structured, systemic, focus to delivering on our promises.
With this approach, we are accelerating access to modern medical care for more people in more places and for those that need it most.
Who We Are
Abdul Latif Jameel Health Saudi Arabia, established in 2020, addresses healthcare disparities in Saudi Arabia, aligning with the Kingdom’s 2030 vision. Supported by Abdul Latif Jameel Enterprises, a respected family business with a global presence, it is well-positioned to seize future opportunities.
What We Do
At Abdul Latif Jameel Health Saudi Arabia, we are dedicated to bridging healthcare innovation. We actively foster collaborations with leading manufacturers of cutting-edge medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. Leveraging our extensive network and robust distribution infrastructure, we connect these innovators with the healthcare ecosystem. Our commitment extends beyond mere distribution; we provide comprehensive value-added services, including regulatory guidance, strategic marketing, and seamless logistics and storage solutions, ensuring that our stakeholders thrive in a dynamic healthcare landscape.
Digital technologies are revolutionizing healthcare, connecting us like never before. This presents a unique opportunity to address global health inequities through innovation.
Digital health encompasses mHealth, EMR, wearables, telemedicine, and IoMT, empowering individuals to monitor their health and make informed decisions.
These technologies offer the potential to improve access, quality, and affordability of care, while reducing inefficiencies.
Data, AI, and open platforms are crucial for a consumer-centric, inclusive future.
Addressing challenges like aging population, epidemics, and limited access requires leveraging the power of digital health solutions, aligning with our vision of improving lives.
A study found that 13.9% of adult Saudis had some degree of visual impairment1. Major causes include uncorrected refractive errors, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. The burden of vision impairment is disproportionately high in low- and middle-income countries. With an aging population, the number of people with vision impairment is expected to rise. Abdul Latif Jameel Health is collaborating with partners to increase access to affordable solutions for this critical unmet need.
Technology is revolutionizing diagnostics, shaping the future of healthcare. Emerging trends include at-home testing, personalized genetic testing, and real-time monitoring with wearables. On the clinical side, ‘decision support’ tools and AI-powered imaging are transforming lab diagnostics. Abdul Latif Jameel Health seeks partners offering smart solutions to improve health access, in Saudi Arabia
The Lancet Commission reports that 5 billion people lack access to essential surgery. This disparity is acute in low- and middle-income countries. Untreated surgical conditions cause millions of deaths annually. While advancements in surgical technology offer hope, limited access to affordable equipment and a shortage of skilled surgeons hinder progress, particularly in resource-limited settings.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), sometimes known as physiatry or rehabilitative medicine, seeks to enhance, or ultimately, restore functional ability and the associated quality of life to those patients with physical impairments or disabilities affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons, whether impaired through injury, disease, or other disorder.
The Jameel Family’s involvement in this field dates to 2007, when, what is today the Abdul Latif Jameel Rehabilitation Hospital, began as a center to provide these services to the population in and around Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Our partnership with Japanese biomechanical innovator, Cyberdyne Inc., brought a new dimension to this in 2017, when we were the first to introduce their treatment for spinal injury into the country.
Harnessing Key Trends as Drivers of Success
Technology adoption
The rapid innovation cycle in health technology, including AI, robotics, therapeutics, medical devices, regenerative medicine and more, presents significant opportunities.
This is impacting drug and device filing, registration and market authorization as well as licensing arrangements.
We seek to both invest in emerging ideas and connecting businesses to new growth opportunities within Saudi Arabia.
National Health security
Increasing resilience in our society’s healthcare systems and processes to increase public and private health security has become a pressing need.
With our international and local network, we are uniquely positioned to be a key player in this emerging environment helping our partners to deliver and realizing our overarching goal of expanding access and enhancing resilience and business continuity to modern health care.
Patient centricity
Increasing patient centricity continues to drive the importance of patient education and support programs.
We are ready to play our role in enabling individuals to take an active interest in their own health management.
Expansion of healthcare coverage
There is a growing commitment of the government to drive health coverage policies.
In parallel, growing demand for health insurance coverage continues to demand innovative funding models.
In turn this requires the expansion of the role of Public-Private Partnership models in healthcare to enable access, where we are ready and able to play an enabling role.