Innovation + Impact E-newsletter April 2019

Join Global Health on Follow CII on APRIL 2019 FEATURE   NEW REPORT: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GLOBAL HEALTH Recognizing the huge potential of AI in global health, The Rockefeller Foundation and United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) have partnered, in close coordination with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop AI in Global Health: Defining a Collective Path Forward. This report identifies opportunities for donors, governments, investors, the private sector, and other stakeholders to explore and accelerate the appropriate development and cost-effective use of AI at scale in global health. Read the report.  INNOVATION 8 Inspiring Women Changing the Landscape in Global Health As part of Women's History Month, CII published a blog on USAID Medium, 8 Inspiring Women Changing the Landscape in Global Health, in celebration of female innovators supported by our Global Health Grand Challenges. These 8 women push the boundaries to solve the world's toughest challenges, while paving the way for the next generation of scientists, policy makers, change agents and entrepreneurs. They come from organizations including Bempu Health, Shift Labs, Kisumu Medical and Education Trust, D-Rev, Dalberg Data Insights, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, D-tree International, and the World Mosquito Program.  INNOVATION The City Where Children are Learning to Love Mosquitoes Zika Grand Challenge project partner, World Mosquito Program, was featured on BBC's People Fixing the World podcast series. This story, called The City Where Children are Learning to Love Mosquitoes, describes the task of introducing mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria into the city of Medellin, Colombia in order to prevent the spread of viruses such as Zika and dengue. Listen to the story.  INNOVATION Portable Kit to Treat Babies with Jaundice Goes on Trial in Peru The Guardian published an article featuring Saving Lives at Birth innovator INMED for their package of 3 SL@B-supported innovations, called the Bilikit, to address jaundice in newborns. The package includes the Jaundice Ruler (for screening), the Bilistick® (for quantitative diagnosis), and the Bili-Hut™ (for phototherapy treatment) to address each touchpoint in jaundice management. The article describes INMED's work in Peru, where they are launching a two-year project with the backing of Peru's Ministry of Health to screen, diagnose, and treat jaundice in 12K newborns.  EVENTS Launch of AI Report at Aspen Institute and featured in the Lancet and VOA   On April 1st, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and USAID/CII, alongside the Aspen Global Innovators Group, hosted an event at the Aspen Institute for the launch of their new report Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Global Health: Defining a Collective Path Forward. The event featured a panel conversation with public and private sector experts exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI in global health. Watch a video of the launch event. The report was also featured in a Lancet editorial and a VOA article.  EVENTS May 20-28, 2019 World Health Assembly WHO, Geneva, Switzerland June 18-20, 2019 Global Health Security 2019 ICMS, Sydney, Australia June 20-29, 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado  WHAT WE'RE READING FSG Financing the Future of Asia Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) Access Barriers to Antibiotics New York Times In African Villages, these Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners WHO Delivered by Women, Led by Men: A Gender Equity Analysis of the Global Health and Social Workforce Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health What can Design Do for Public Health? PLOS One Machine Learning Models for Early Sepsis Recognition in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Using Readily Available Electronic Health Record Data  CII NEWS Geekwire: featuring Saving Lives at Birth grantee Virtual Reality is Helping Babies Breathe Thanks to a Project from Seattle Children's and Oxford April 8, 2019 Coca-Cola featuring Project Last Mile Health Ministries Leverage Coca-Cola's Distribution and Marketing Expertise April 12, 2019 USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program Request for Information: Supplier Capacity to Supply V for PrEP Kits April 18, 2019 WHO WHO Releases First Guideline on Digital Health Interventions April 17, 2019 Technology Salon Evaluation Criteria for Using Artificial Intelligence in development Programs April 18, 2019 ICTworks 4 Artificial Intelligence Use Cases for Global Health April 27, 2019 FastCompany The World's Largest Drone Delivery Network is Launching in Ghana April 24, 2019  NEWS NPR World's First Malaria Vaccine Launches in Sub-Saharan Africa April 23, 2019 USAID An Open Call for Health Care Innovators April 9, 2019 CII Staff Spotlight   ANN MARIE BROUILLETTE, Innovation Advisor "I am passionate about finding better ways to measure, and therefore manage, progress towards goals and about supporting the best ideas in global health to come to scale." Read the full interview [PDF, 152KB]. 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: USAID, Johnson & Johnson, Monash University, The New Yorker, Sirius XM, AMP Health   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. The KMS Project is located at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 440, Washington DC 20004  • (202) 660-1860