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August 2017
FEATURE
USAID Hosts Seventh Annual DevelopmentXChange and Announces Round 7 Award Nominees of the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge
The 2017 Annual Saving Lives at Birth DevelopmentXChange took place the week of July 24th in the Ronald Reagan Building in the nation's capital. This 7th annual, 2-day event brought together problem solvers and innovators from around the world to develop and scale transformational solutions for improving maternal and newborn survival in poor, hard-to-reach communities around the world. See a recap of the event.
After a rigorous review process, 53 of the brightest innovators from around the globe were invited to present their groundbreaking innovations that have the potential to drastically reduce maternal and newborn mortality. These 53 finalists were selected from an extremely competitive pool of more than 550 applications. On July 27th, at the culmination of the event, Acting USAID Administrator Wade Warren delivered the keynote address at the DevelopmentXChange innovation Marketplace. This was followed by the SL@B Donor Partners revealing select award nominees from Round 7, across the seed, validation, and transition-to-scale categories. Read the press release.
VIDEO
Watch CII's Jen Fluder and Vinesh Kapil at the WHO Medical Device Forum as they discuss Global Health Grand Challenges including Fighting Ebola and Saving Lives at Birth and the importance of innovation when developing critical health interventions.
SCALING
CII's work with Kellogg and its report Investing for Impact featured in the Financial Times
CII's work has been featured in the Financial Times twice this last month. On July 27th, CII was featured in an article called It is time to rethink business school case studies for millennials about a case study CII developed in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. On August 4th, CII's Investing for Impact report was highlighted in FT Health, with respect to trends in global health financing and USAID's role.
INNOVATION
Check out USAID's new Global Health Grand Challenges webpage. Global Health Grand Challenges call on the brightest minds around the world to tackle global health problems head on, thinking of innovative, creative, and multi-disciplinary ways to address age-old challenges in health. The webpage features Saving Lives at Birth, Fighting Ebola, Combating Zika & Future Threats, and Ensuring Effective Health Supply Chains.
NOTICE
Malawi's first ever National Community Health Strategy [PDF, 4.9MB] was recently launched. The Ministry of Health led the development of the strategy with support from key partners, including CII, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health), the Malawi Mission, UNICEF, and Save the Children. Implementation has begun with early stages focused on advocacy and resource mobilization.
NOTICE
Sir Andrew Witty, former CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has joined the AMP Health Advisory Board. He joins Tom Daschle, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance and former Botswana Parliament Member. The board will continue to grow as AMP Health expands. Watch a previous discussion with Andrew Witty co-hosted by CII and the Aspen Institute.
EVENTS
August 24 – 25, 2017
Acting on the Call Summit
Acting on the Call, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
September 7, 2017 2017 National Health Research Forum
Research!America, Washington, D.C
September 7 – 10, 2017
U.S. Conference on AIDS
NMAC, Washington, D.C
September 12 – 25, 2017
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations, New York City, New York
WHAT WE'RE READING
World Health Organization
WHO Implementation Tool for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) of HIV Infection
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Annual UNAIDS Report: Ending AIDS – Progress Towards the 90-90-90 Targets [PDF,7.5MB]
Devex
Development Impact Bonds
New York Times
Sending Health to Rural Ghana via Traveling Medics
IDEO
4 Tips for Navigating Ambiguity
NEWS
International Partnership for Microbicides
IPM Receives Multi-year Award from U.K. Government to Advance Technologies for Women's HIV
July 19, 2017
NPR Goats and Soda
There's Great News – and Grim News – in the Fight against HIV/AIDS
July 28, 2017
New York Times
Dr. Raj Panjabi Goes the Last Mile in Liberia
July 31, 2017
Reuters
Senate Confirms New USAID Administrator Mark Green
August 3, 2017
CII NEWS
Huffington Post
Childbirth Is Awe-inspiring. Making It Safe Shouldn't Be
August 10, 2017
Biometric Update
Simprints Wins Funding from Saving Lives at Birth
August 14, 2017
All Africa
Malawi: Ministry of Health Implements US $2.6B Strategic Plan
July 20, 2017
Global Health Technologies Coalition featuring SL@B
A Competition Where the Highest Prize Is Lives Saved
August 2, 2017
USAID featuring CII
USAID Global Health Newsletter on Global Health Financing
July 31, 2017
Newsroom America
Rice News Release: NEST 360 Jaundice Diagnostic Device Wins Grant for Continued Development
August 2, 2017
Lifegate
Saving Lives at Birth, Innovative Ideas to Fight Mortality Meet in a Global Contest
August 2, 2017
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition featuring CII
Market Shaping Analysis of Increasing Same-day Access to Family Planning through Available, Affordable Pregnancy Tests
July 24, 2017
University of California, San Francisco
Star Trek-inspired Virtual Mentor Wins Saving Lives at Birth Seed Grant
August 2, 2017
African Business featuring SL@B grantee
Malawi's Drone Corridor Challenges Skepticism Towards UAVs
August 3, 2017
Business Insider
Gradian Health Systems Wins Saving Lives at Birth Award to Improve Maternal & Newborn Healthcare in Zambia
August 1, 2017
Texas Medical Center News
Rice 360 Neonatal Technology Meets Development Grand Challenge
August 3, 2017
GBC Health
Innovations in Global Health: Augmented Infant Resuscitator Empowers Birth Attendants to Save Newborns
August 1, 2017
STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Rachel Fowler: Program Assistant
"At CII, I'm surrounded by an intelligent, driven, and fun team, who deeply care about their work and constantly look for more innovative, cost-effective ways to bring critical health interventions to market in low- and middle-income countries."
Read the full interview [PDF, 280KB].
USAID's Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) takes a business-minded approach to fast-tracking the development, introduction and scale-up of health interventions that address the world's most important health challenges. CII invests seed capital in the most promising ideas and novel approaches, using forward-looking business practices to cut the time it takes to transform discoveries in the lab to impact on the ground.
Photo credits: USAID, U.S. Mission to Geneva, Morgana Wingard for USAID, Financial Times
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