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Follow CII on  | |  | | October 2022 | | FEATURE | | | Finding the Signal: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics at the Intersection of Climate and Global Health | | Curious about how climate and health intersect, and how AI might be able to help us understand that relationship? So were we! CII partnered with teams across USAID, and with BCG and other external partners to create Finding the Signal: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics (AI/AA) at the Intersection of Climate and Global Health. AI/AA can improve our ability to describe complex, evolving relationships between climate and health factors; predict scenarios over vastly different time horizons; and recommend interventions with trade-offs to optimize resulting health outcomes. For example, the USAID-supported Epidemic Prognosis Incorporating Disease and Environmental Monitoring for Integrated Assessment (EPIDEMIA) system uses climate variables and disease surveillance data to support malaria forecasting in epidemic-prone regions of Ethiopia. Despite the promise of AI/AA, however, its usage in this space is nascent-- particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As global attention turns to climate factors with the upcoming COP27 Climate Change conference, CII is pleased to release this report and looks forward to working with partners on the recommended action pathways that encourage investing in enablers for data, capabilities, and ecosystem conditions as well as acting on specific climate-sensitive health risks. | 
|  | MARKET ACCESS | | | | CII's Amy Lin Speaks at Yale Institute for Global Health | As part of the Yale Institute for Global Health's Sustainable Health Initiative Innovation Exchange series, CII Acting Director Amy Lin presented CII's innovative, cross-cutting global health work to Yale students, faculty, and community members. The conversation focused on CII's guiding conceptual framework (incubate, practice, scale as noted in CII's Impact Brief), with examples of CII work across those stages, such as incubating a human-centered design (HCD) approach to HIV prevention, putting it into practice in Zimbabwe, and supporting scale with HCD lessons learned. The talk also centered on the importance of collaboration and partnership across USAID and with external partners, the importance of localization, and the value of interdisciplinary approaches. | 
| INNOVATION | | | | AMP Health Wins 2022 Future United Collaborator Award | Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health) has received the 2022 Future United Collaborator Award from GBCHealth. The Future United awards are a new GBCHealth initiative to celebrate "the provocateurs, lodestars, futurists, collaborators & multipliers changing global health." Winners were announced during the inaugural awards ceremony on the sidelines of this year's U.N. General Assembly. CII is a founding member and Partnerships Board Member of AMP Health, which collaborates with Ministries of Health to strengthen their leadership and management capabilities, and now works in 14 countries across Africa. | 
| DIGITAL HEALTH | | | | CII's Amarnyth Sichel Delivers Keynote at RECAINSA's Digital Health Forum | On October 11th, CII's Digital Health Advisor Amarynth Sichel delivered the keynote address for the Central American Health Informatics Network's (RECAINSA's) Digital Health Forum 2022. The keynote focused on the critical digital health investment priorities outlined in USAID's Digital Health Vision, including supporting countries' digital health capacity, advancing national digital health strategies, strengthening national digital health architectures, and leveraging global goods. Amarynth highlighted the value of these priorities in action through several case studies illustrating what it actually means to harmonize USAID's investments with countries' own digital health goals. The session was streamed live to viewers around the world, and the recorded presentation can be viewed here. |  | | |   EVENTS USAID's Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain - Africa
Working With Industry on Supply Chain Sustainability Issues
October 20, 2022 Convergence
State of Blended Finance Report Launch
October 26, 2022 Transform Health
2022 Digital Health Week
October 10-16, 2022 |  CII NEWS CII congratulates USAID/India and the SAMRIDH Blended Finance Facility team on SAMRIDH winning the P3 Impact Award at the Concordia Summit. The annual award recognizes exemplary cross-sector collaborations that feature public, private, nonprofit, or non-governmental organizations addressing societal challenges. Congratulations to the SAMRIDH team! Dimagi, one of CII's Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge innovators, announced a $25 million program-related investment (PRI) from the Steele Foundation for Hope to develop a next generation mobile platform to equip frontline health workers in over 85 countries. | |
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|  NEWS The New York Times
Uganda Races to Contain a Deadly Ebola Outbreak
October 1, 2022 Africa.com
Institut Pasteur de Dakar to manufacture affordable Measles and Rubella vaccine
October 24, 2022 Nature
Why scientists fear monkeypox spreading in wild animals
September 30, 2022 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Africa Calls for a New Public Health Order
September 29, 2022 |  WHAT WE'RE READING (AND LISTENING TO) UNITAID
Next generation pulse oximeters INSEAD
Are Our Supply Chains Ready for the Next Global Health Crisis? The New Times
Digital innovation can help achieve universal health coverage in a post-pandemic world Devex
Q&A: Harnessing AI's potential to transform the delivery of health care |
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| | | | STAFF SPOTLIGHT | Eli Kahn-Woods, Innovation Advisor
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| Eli is an Innovation Advisor in the Center for Innovation and Impact (CII). His work includes scoping innovation opportunities for CII, with a focus on local manufacturing and antimicrobial resistance. Prior to joining CII, Eli spent 8 years specializing in HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases at the Clinton Health Access Initiative and health-focused start-ups. In his free time, Eli enjoys spending time with friends and family, playing music, doing DIYs around the house, and crafting his own homemade hot sauces! Read Eli's full interview here. | | | USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) incubates new ideas, puts them into practice, and scales effective approaches through partnership and institutional change. Our expertise in innovation, market-based solutions, and digital health helps us accelerate impact against critical health issues. |
| Ogilvy is sending these announcements on behalf of USAID's Bureau for Global Health. Ogilvy is located at 1111 19th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036 • (202) 729-4000 |  | |
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