| Join Global Health on | |  | Follow CII on | |  | | | Despite funding for new health products, uptake continues to fall short. Why is it so challenging to understand demand for new health products? CII partnered with leading institutions to critically examine this challenge through an analytical process that culminated in this publication including detailed retrospectives of 4 products: internal condom, non-pneumatic anti-shock garment, pulse oximeter, rectal artesunate. The paper advocates for four behaviors that all global health actors supporting new products can adopt to steward investments aligned with clear demand signals, and five ideas for collective investment that center local market intelligence. These ideas will help USAID and other funders be better equipped as stewards of product innovations, channel investments and minimize ill-timed or missed opportunities. Doing so can improve how funders, investors, advocates, innovators, countries, and communities invest limited resources to accelerate the availability of new life-saving interventions. Check out the main publication and supplemental with additional tools, resources and expanded product retrospectives. CII welcomes joint opportunities for action. Please reach out to Senior Advisor Mila Nepomnyashchiy at cii@usaid.gov with any questions or feedback. | |  | | CII Partners to Advance Thinking at the Climate-Health Nexus | | | The Climate and Health intersection is obtaining increasing recognition from funders and other actors in these and related fields. As such, Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome Trust hosted various stakeholders, including USAID, World Health Organization, Belmont Forum, Gates Ventures, etc. CII's Amy Lin and Sylvia Boulos, with their USAID colleagues Barbara Goldoftas and Samuel Sellers, joined the other participants in New York City to discuss the climate and health nexus. The meeting's goals were to allow for stakeholders to share information about their funding strategies and priorities, hear from implementation partners, develop an understanding of evidence gaps in the field, and to build a shared vision for supporting climate and health through influence and funding. | |  | | CII Advisors Present at the Global Digital Development Forum | | | CII's Sylvia Bolous and Adele Waugaman spoke at a panel titled "Climate-Sensitive Health Risks: Where Do Funders See Tech Having the Biggest Impact?" at the Global Digital Development Forum. The virtual panel was broadcast live and recorded. Sylvia presented on CII's recent report looking at the intersection of machine learning, climate change, and global health, entitled Finding the Signal: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics at the Intersection of Climate and Global Health. Adele presented on supporting strategic investments in digital infrastructure to build resilience to future global health threats, including those exacerbated by climate change. | |  | |
CII Director Speaks at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
| | | CII's Amy Lin spoke on the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) panel Market Access and Global Health with representatives from the Gates Medical Research Institute, Unitaid, Merck for Mothers, Access to Medicine Foundation, and the Rwanda Ministry of Health. The panel shared market shaping examples on increasing access to important health commodities like optimized HIV treatment regimens and the HPV vaccine from the perspective of a government, donor, private sector, and nonprofit actor. The discussion highlighted the need for partnership to address the complexity of market access (and patient access!) issues, for using a portfolio approach instead of searching for a single panacea, and to probe for root causes that can be addressed to drive impact. | | CII Collaborator: Joy Kamunyori Senior Health Information Systems Advisor (Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID Bureau for Global Health) Joy is a Senior Health Information Systems Advisor in the USAID Office of HIV/AIDS backstopping Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. She is also providing part-time support to the COVID-19 Response Team. In her free time, Joy loves to be active and outdoors, and to connect with friends over good food and wine. Read the full interview with Joy here! | | USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) takes strategic risks to incubate new ideas, put them into practice, and scale effective approaches for critical health issues. We apply our expertise in innovation, market-based solutions, and digital health to work in partnership and through institutional change. | | | | |
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