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Innovation and Impact Newsletter - November 2016

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NOVEMBER 2016

FEATURE

USAID Funds New Innovations to Fight Future Disease Outbreaks

On October 12th, The Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge announced five additional awardees, bringing the total investment to $30 million. Amy Pope, Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy Assistant to the President at the National Security Council, announced the new awards in Rotterdam where participants gathered to advance the 55-country Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (see more in the White House Fact Sheet). The new innovations were selected for their potential to support the GHSA goals of preventing, detecting and responding to future disease outbreaks. Solutions range from using unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver critical medical supplies in remote areas to leveraging big data and machine learning to prevent future outbreaks.

For more information on each of the award nominees, click here. This announcement was featured by multiple news outlets including NBC News, CBS and the Miami Herald.

PUBLICATIONS

How Nigerian Businesses Can Help Save Newborn Lives

Saving newborn lives in Nigeria hinges on private sector involvement and collaboration. Read more from CII’s Nikki Tyler and Dave Milestone, as well as colleagues from USAID/Nigeria, CHAI and Dalberg, about the importance of engaging the private sector to advance gains in maternal and child health outcomes.

RESEARCH & TOOLS

Five Models for Scaling Up a Global Health Venture

Venturewell features CII’s Pathways to Scale guide, part of the Idea to Impact Series, to guide innovators through a series of business model and partnership choices they must make to scale up their global health innovations. There are a variety of approaches to scaling up that global health innovators can consider. The guide summarizes a few of the most commonly found models.

PRESS

Colombia, Brazil Launch Large-Scale Wolbachia Programs to Fight Zika

On October 26th, USAID, the U.K. Government, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Wellcome Trust, along with the governments of Brazil and Colombia, announced an $18 million initiative to conduct large-scale deployments of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in Colombia and Brazil. The introduction of Wolbachia bacteria to Aedes aegypti mosquitoes is a revolutionary approach that is a sustainable and natural way to prevent the transmission of Zika, Dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to humans.

INNOVATIONS

PopSci’s Top Health Innovations of the Year Include Ebola Innovator

On October 18th, Popular Science named DripAssist from ShiftLabs one of the twelve most important health innovations of the year. DripAssist, which received funding from Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development, is a low-cost, battery-powered infusion monitor that delivers fluids with precision to patients, eliminating the risk of fluid overload and enhancing survival.