Innovation + Impact E-newsletter June 2019

Join Global Health on Follow CII on JUNE 2019 FEATURE   INNOVATION REALIZED: EXPANDING THE PATH TO HEALTH IMPACT Introducing USAID CII's Innovation Realized: Expanding the Path to Health Impact. This guide builds on successes and lays out practical ways that USAID staff can identify opportunities to apply innovation to solve real problems in the context of how we work, as well as to further innovation across the Agency. Though this guide is primarily intended for USAID staff, it can serve as an adaptable resource for other organizations. Innovation Realized: 1) defines innovation and dispels common myths; 2) presents a case for innovation in global health at USAID; 3) provides common innovation opportunities; and 4) shares examples and resources to start the innovation process. This resource has been co-developed with input from colleagues in the field and across health offices, capturing best practices and examples of innovation in global health.  Read the guide.  INNOVATIVE FINANCING New Partnership: Financing for MOMs CII helped convene a $50 million partnership between Merck for Mothers, OPIC, Credit Suisse and USAID called the Financing for MOMs (Maternal Outcomes Matters) Alliance, which was announced at the Women Deliver conference on Tuesday, June 4th. The Alliance aims to mobilize private capital to improve maternal and child health by strengthening and expanding infrastructure, services, and access to care in Sub-Saharan Africa. USAID will be providing technical assistance as its contribution. The collaboration will help more women receive high quality care to ensure a healthy pregnancy and safe delivery, and lay the foundation for lifelong good health. Read the press release.  EVENTS Unlocking Private Capital to Achieve Impact in Global Health USAID CII and the UBS Optimus Foundation co-hosted an event at UBS Offices in New York City for a conversation with key stakeholders on best practices in innovative financing for global health and development. The panel of experts discussed the role of private capital and impact investing in development, provided examples of how these approaches are being applied currently, and looked to the future to see what new innovative financing approaches are being considered to achieve development goals. Amy Lin and Omer Imtiazuddin from CII highlighted USAID's Private Sector Engagement Strategy as well as the recently launched CII report: Unleashing Private Capital for Global Health Innovation: Innovator and Investor Support Opportunities.     PARTNERSHIPS Project Last Mile 2019 Impact Report Project Last Mile (PLM) just released their 2019 impact report. PLM is a pioneering cross-sector partnership between the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Coca-Cola Company and its Foundation that is improving the availability of life-saving medicines and the uptake of health services in Africa by sharing the expertise of the Coca-Cola system. For example, PLM has optimized delivery routes for over 3,500 health facilities in Tanzania and Mozambique, and developed proactive maintenance and repair systems for over 392 refrigeration units in Lagos, Nigeria. Read the report [PDF, 3.7MB].  EVENTS GES Panel: Efforts to Create Innovation-focused Health Economies This month Amy Lin moderated a panel at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in the Hague that featured HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, Royal Philips CEO Frans van Houten and the Netherlands Minister of Health Erik Gerritsen. The discussion focused on enabling factors and the role of government and the private sector in building innovation-focused health economies.  EVENTS June 20-29, 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado July 21-24, 2019 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science International AIDS Society, Mexico City, Mexico July 10-11, 2019 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference University of Rwanda Regional Centre of Excellence, Kigali, Rwanda  NEWS Million Lives Club Launch of the Million Lives Club June 5, 2019 ELHRA R2HC Annual Funding Call Due: July 16, 2019 NPR WHO Weighs Declaring Global Health Emergency as Ebola Spreads in Africa June 13, 2019 Panorama The Ebola Fund June 12, 2019 The New York Times Depo-Provera, an Injectable Contraceptive, does not Raise HIV Risk June 13, 2019 USAID Integrated Health Program will Help Save Lives of Vulnerable Nigerians June 20, 2019  CII NEWS Devex Technology Alone Won't Launch 'Drones for Good' from Pilots to Progress May 28, 2019 The Economist Drone Deliveries are Advancing in Health Care June 15, 2019  WHAT WE'RE READING Digital Square Global Goods Guidebook Venturewell Venturewell Development Framework for Evaluating Programs for Early-stage Entrepreneurs Harvard Business Review What Sets the Most Effective Innovators Apart NPR Goats & Soda Where Disease-carrying Mosquitos will Go in the Future USAID Acting on the Call Report 2019 WE'RE HIRING Senior Innovation Advisor CII Innovator Spotlight   DANIELA RUBIO and CHRIS WATSON, Premise Data Read the full interview [PDF, 231KB]. 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