Innovation + Impact E-newsletter December 2018

Join Global Health on Follow CII on DECEMBER 2018 FEATURE   Introducing "V"–An Innovative Approach to Increase PrEP Uptake and Adherence USAID's Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA) and the Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) are excited to announce the launch of "V", a human-centered design approach to addressing challenges in uptake and adherence for oral PrEP among adolescent girls and young women. "V" is designed to combine innovations in product packaging — such as a starter kit to spark interest in oral PrEP initiation that includes a pill case designed to look like lip gloss — with private sector advertising and marketing approaches to encourage demand and reinforce adherence. A wide range of resources are available to enable the implementation of "V" including the Launching V website, blog from USAID's OHA, IDEO case study, PrEPWatch's website, and this STAT news article.  INNOVATION Two Global Health Grand Challenge Innovators win 2018 Patents for Humanity Awards Congratulations to our Global Health Grand Challenge innovators Kinnos and Little Sparrows Technologies for being two of nine recipients of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office "Patents for Humanity" awards. Kinnos, a Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge grantee, was recognized for its product Highlight, a colorized, powdered additive that is mixed into bleach at point-of-use to improve visualization and coverage during decontamination. Little Sparrows Technologies, a Saving Lives at Birth grantee, was recognized for its portable and battery-operable phototherapy device to treat jaundice. Read this Share America piece that features each innovation.  MARKET ACCESS ATscale Partnership: Request for Information USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance and Bureau for Global Health's Center for Innovation and Impact—in partnership with the U.K. development agency DFID (Department for International Development)—released a joint request for information (RFI) for ATscale this month. ATscale | the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology is a partnership with the goal of reaching 500 million people with life-changing assistive technology, (AT) such as wheelchairs, hearing aids and glasses, by 2030. The RFI seeks to learn from successful partnership and coordinating body models so that lessons can feed into the formal development of ATscale's coordinating mechanism.  PRIVATE CAPITAL Unlocking Private Capital for Global Health Innovation CII co-hosted a workshop with the Byers Center for Biodesign, Center for Population Health Sciences, and Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University called Unlocking Private Capital for Global Health Innovation–Designing an Innovator and Investor Support Facility. The workshop brought together 25 influential investors and innovators to test findings from a recent needs assessment diagnosing the barriers to unlocking private capital for global health innovation. In the coming months, we will release findings from the workshop to the broader community. Stay tuned.  PRIVATE SECTOR Launch of USAID's Private Sector Engagement Policy USAID is undertaking a major cultural and operational transformation to expand Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Agency-wide. Through its new PSE Policy, USAID has issued an Agency-wide call to action and mandate to work hand-in-hand with the private sector to design and deliver our development and humanitarian programs in all sectors. This policy, influenced by CII's work, signals an intentional shift towards enterprise-driven development as a more sustainable way to empower people, communities and countries on their journey to self-reliance. Learn more.  EVENTS January 22–25, 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting World Economic Forum, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland February 13, 2019 Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference Duke University, Durham, North Carolina April 13–14, 2019 2019 Global Health & Innovation Conference Unite for Sight, New Haven, Connecticut  NEWS Access to Medicine Foundation Access to Medicine Index 2018 December 2018 ICTworks New DHIS2 Community Health Information Systems Guidelines November 28, 2018 Daily Pioneer Buzz in the Sky December 5, 2018 NPR Goats and Soda UNAIDS Report: 9M are Likely HIV Positive and Don't Know It December 7, 2018 CII is Hiring! CII Open Position Innovation Advisor  CII NEWS Results for America featuring Global Health Grand Challenges 2018 Invest in What Works Index December 3, 2018 STAT News A Makeover for Oral PrEP: Designing Real-World HIV Prevention for Women December 11, 2018 Duke Global Health Institute This Petite Pouch Packs a Punch: Saving Lives at Birth Innovator December 1, 2018 Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health) Welcoming Robert Newman, Director of AMP Health November 1, 2018 The Coca-Cola Company highlighting Project Last Mile "The Last Mile" November 19, 2018 USAID and Milken Institute School of Public Health featuring Combating Zika innovators Stronger There, Safer Here December 3, 2018  WHAT WE'RE READING Stanford Social Innovation Review On-Demand Medical Drone Delivery Asian Development Bank Digital Health Impact Framework User Manual Quartz African Languages are Being Left Behind When It Comes to Voice Recognition Innovation Globalization and Health Best Practices in Scaling Digital Health in Low- and Middle-income Countries Digital Impact Alliance Financing Digital Markets [PDF, 3.5MB] SEASONS GREETINGS FROM CII! Download the Seasons Greeting Message [PDF, 462KB]   USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) takes a business-minded approach to fast-tracking the development, introduction and scale-up of health interventions that address the world's most important health challenges. CII invests seed capital in the most promising ideas and novel approaches, using forward-looking business practices to cut the time it takes to transform discoveries in the lab to impact on the ground.   Photo credits: Dave Cooper for USAID, Philips, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine     Stay Connected with USAID Global Health         Unsubscribe | Update Your E-mail Address | USAID.gov | Privacy Policy   If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. The KMS Project is sending these announcements on behalf of USAID's Bureau for Global Health. 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