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FEATURE

21 Nominees Awarded Grants in Zika Grand Challenge

On August 10^th, the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) announced 21 potentially game-changing solutions to mitigate the spread and impact of the Zika virus. USAID launched the Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge in April 2016 to invest up to $30 million in groundbreaking innovations from around the world to both address the Zika outbreak and improve our ability to prevent, detect, and respond to future infectious disease outbreaks. CII received almost 900 submissions in just 9 weeks for this grand challenge. Award nominees range from deployment of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, a naturally-occurring bacteria that prevents the spread of the disease to humans; to low-cost, insecticide-treated sandals; to a cell phone app that measures wing-beat frequency to not only distinguish different types of mosquitoes but potentially identify whether they are carrying disease

 PUBLICATIONS

Leveraging Markets for Global Health

We need efficient markets as well as innovation to tackle global health challenges. Read how USAID is using both to roll out new insecticide sprays and optimized HIV treatment in this blog by CII's Amy Lin and Wendy Taylor.

 RESEARCH & TOOLS

Driving Demand for Chlorhexidine: Introducing a Human-centered Design Toolkit

CII's Nikki Tyler discusses our demand generation toolkit supporting the development and adaptation of tools to drive demand for chlorhexidine. The toolkit was created using a human-centered design approach.

 PRESS

The Government Asked Innovators to Combat Zika. Here are their Ideas.

Check out the Washington Post's recap of CII's finalists in the Zika Grand Challenge.

 INNOVATIONS

Saving Lives at Birth Development^XChange

At the annual Development^XChange held July 26–28, Saving Lives at Birth announced $3.4 million in new funding for 12 of the world's most promising submissions. This event brought together 54 current SL@B grantees and 49 finalists vying for Round 6 funding. Read the press release announcing this year's finalists. Twitter: @GCDSavingLives

 EVENTS

September 6, 2016–November 9, 2016
IDEO Human Centered Design Course
+Acumen Courses

September 13, 2016–September 16, 2016
SOCAP 2016
Social Capital Markets

September 26, 2016–September 28, 2016
ANDE Conference
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

 WHAT WE'RE READING

Principles for Digital Development
From Principle to Practice: Implementing the Principles for Digital Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Guaranteed Impact

Harvard Business Review
Why Social Ventures Need Systems Thinking

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Private Capital for Sustainable Development

Health Enabled
HealthE Africa Country Dashboards

World Economic Forum
These Are the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016

 CII NEWS

Washington Post
What Glow-in-the-Dark Mosquitoes Can Teach Us about Human Smell
August 15, 2016

Al-Jazeera
Saving Lives at Birth Round 6 Highlight
August 23, 2016

Voice of America
Innovative Projects to Combat Zika
August 12, 2016

Global Health Technologies Coalition
The Potential, the Pitch, and the Prize: Innovators Compete to Save Maternal and Newborn Lives
August 3, 2016

Huffington Post Live
Innovative Ideas for Preventing the Zika Virus from Spreading
August 15, 2016

Public Spend Forum
Crowdsourcing the Fight Against Zika and Ebola
August 4, 2016

Voice of America
African Innovators Aim to Improve Health Care for Mothers and Newborns
August 2, 2016

Devex
How the Zika Response is Going Beyond Reactive Approaches
August 17, 2016

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
CCP Wins USAID Zika Grand Challenge
August 11, 2016