Innovation + Impact E-newsletter May 2019

Join Global Health on Follow CII on MAY 2019 FEATURE   INTRODUCING CII's 2019 IMPACT BRIEF USAID's Bureau for Global Health's Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) introduces our 2019 Impact Brief [PDF, 12.4MB], which features an overview of our work and progress this past year. At CII, we take 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. We blend public health expertise with experience in med-tech and pharmaceutical strategy, finance, business management, and management consulting to work hand-in-hand with our technical colleagues across the Bureau for Global Health. To learn more about CII, please visit www.usaid.gov/cii or follow @CIIimpact.  INNOVATIVE FINANCING Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation We need significantly more innovation – and funding to support that innovation – if we are to successfully achieve our global health aspirations. CII released a new report Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation, which aims to understand both innovator challenges in successfully attracting private capital to scale their solutions, and investor challenges to deploying more private capital in the global health sector. Read the report.  DESIGN Design for Health: Nio Far Dakar Last month, alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we co-hosted the 2019 DesignforHealth convening Nio Far Dakar in Dakar, Senegal at the Le Musée des Civilisations Noires (Museum of Black Civilisations). The DesignforHealth partnership seeks to advance the more intentional and appropriate use of design in global health, while democratizing design so that it is more accessible to global health practitioners at large. At this convening, nearly 100 attendees made up of designers, implementing partners, and funders tackled the question: as global health evolves over the next 25 years, how can design be best positioned to be integrated within the field while accelerating human-centered innovation to improve the health of populations? Learn more and watch this video for highlights of the event. As the Senegalese say, Nio Far! We are on, we are together!  INNOVATION Saving Lives at Birth Xcelerator Workshop The 2019 Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) Xcelerator Workshop, led by the Accelerating SL@B program consortium of partners, was held in Durham, NC May 13-17th. The Xcelerator is an interactive 4.5-day workshop that is designed to amplify the impact of the SL@B grant program by providing targeted, tailored assistance to its innovations to reach scale and sustainability with evidence of impact. In attendance were over 40 innovators representing 12 countries. Each day focused on one of four key domain challenges critical to growth, adoption, and sustainable scale of an innovation: team, market, business model, and product/service/approach.  INNOVATION Global Health Grand Challenge Innovators in the News Last month, the World Bank announced the first place winner of the 'Mission Billion Challenge': Simprints, a Saving Lives at Birth innovator. Simprints won for its open source toolkit that uses audio messages during registration to help people provide meaningful informed consent and to understand how their data is going to be used. Over 170 solutions were submitted from 54 countries from academics, entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologists. Simprints was featured in an NPR Planet Money podcast for their recent win. In addition, Global Health Grand Challenge innovators University of Melbourne, supported by Saving Lives at Birth, and Monash University, supported by the Combating Zika Grand Challenge, are two of the twelve finalists out of a pool of nearly 1K applications for the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award. This award will select 5 of the 12 finalists to receive $10M in funding to deliver projects that seek to initiate or build on a bold idea that addresses an area of social need.  EVENTS June 18-20, 2019 Global Health Security 2019 ICMS, Sydney, Australia June 17, 2019 Unlocking Private Capital to Achieve Impact in Global Health USAID and UBS, New York City, New York June 20-29, 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado July 10-11, 2019 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference Georgia Tech, Kigali, Rwanda  NEWS USAID Call for Applications: Inclusive Health Access Prize Due: June 28, 2019 CNN Google has Opened its First Africa Artificial Intelligence Lab in Ghana April 16, 2019 WCAX Arizona Researchers Create Self-sufficient Movable Health Care Clinic May 6, 2019 European Commission Call for applicants: EIC Horizon Prize for Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid Due: January 15, 2020 Zayed Sustainability Prize Call for Submissions Due: May 30, 2019 Fast Company These 20 Social Enterprises and Nonprofits just Won Google's AI Impact Challenge May 7, 2019 Nature Vaccination Lags Behind in Middle-income Countries May 14, 2019 USAID Call for Proposals: Humanitarian Grand Challenge Due: July 16, 2019 ELRHA Humanitarian Innovation Fund Now Open Due: June 23, 2019  CII NEWS D-Rev featuring some CII tools Introducing Medical Devices into New Markets May 1, 2019 DocWire How AI has Impacted Global Healthcare April 16, 2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame Saving Lives at Birth innovator Rebecca Richards-Kortum Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame May 2, 2019 PRWeb featuring Saving Lives at Birth and Fighting Ebola Innovator Shift Labs Announces Expansion of Patent Portfolio Covering Data Capture for a Next-Gen Infusion Product May 8, 2019 Global Health Technologies Coalition Gamifying Global Health Innovation May 7, 2019 YourStory highlighting DesignforHealth What it Takes to Become a 'Social Designer' May 6, 2019 Last Mile Health Community Health Academy Course highlighting AMP Health May 9, 2019 Devex highlighting CII UAV report and coordination What Role Should Donors Play in Helping Drones for Delivery Take Flight? May 20, 2019 Devex highlighting CII's Blended Finance Roadmap A Fresh Take on Global Health Financing Gap May 22, 2019  WHAT WE'RE READING Digital Health Index State of Digital Health 2019 The Lancet Past, Present, and Future of Global Health Financing Access to Medicine Foundation New Study from the Foundation Analyzes 10 Years of Data on Pharma Companies and Access to Medicine CII Transition   A note from CII's outgoing Acting Director, David Milestone. "It's been a privilege to help grow, and then lead, CII." Read the full note [PDF, 92KB].  A thank you to Dave… Read the letter [PDF, 228KB]. 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.     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