February 2018

Call for Innovative Direct-to-consumer Approaches for Adolescents

USAID’s office of Population and Reproductive Health, along with CII, is seeking innovative solutions to provide health information and support for healthy behaviors in a way that is accessible to adolescents. We are particularly interested in solutions that directly reach adolescents in multiple country settings and/or adolescents’ support networks (such as families and communities) in partnership with the private sector. Apply!

UBS and USAID/CII Event Innovative Financing to Achieve Impact in Global Health

On February 8, 2018, the UBS Optimus Foundation and CII co-hosted an event on innovative financing in global health in the UBS Offices in New York, featuring expert panelists from JustActions, the Financing Alliance for Health, PSI, the Rockefeller Foundation and Instiglio. The event highlighted our recently launched Utkrisht Impact Bond. To learn more about the event, read this LinkedIn piece Private Wealth for Public Purpose and this PLOS piece Global Health Finance: Adapting to a New Reality.

Innovator Insights Series featuring Saving Lives at Birth

VentureWell’s Innovator Insights Series shares valuable findings and best practices drawn from USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge Xcelerator program. The series explores how early stage science and technology innovators can be adequately prepared and supported throughout their adventure. The fourth installment of the series on the importance of understanding in-country context was just released.

UAVs in Global Health Workshop

On February 13, 2018, CII hosted a workshop on how donors can better coordinate investments in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in global health. This is the first step of the investment roadmap laid out in CII’s report UAVs in Global Health: Defining a Collective Path Forward. This donor session included attendees from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, UNICEF, the U.K. Department for International Development and the World Bank.

SL@B; Development of a Retrospective Theory of Change, Impact Framework and Prioritized Metrics

Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) partners recently published an article [PDF, 2.4MB] in Globalization and Health discussing the partnership's theory of change and impact framework with prioritized metrics to map SL@B’s contribution toward overall goals and to measure progress toward improved outcomes around the time of birth.