Accelerating Innovation in Global Health Crises The Fighting Ebola and Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge

“What will we do with what we’ve learned?

This was a test of the world’s ability to respond to potential pandemics, and it did not go well.” TimeMagazine,namedtheEbolaFighterasits

2014PersonoftheYear

“What will we do with what

we’ve learned?

This was a test of the world’s

ability to respond to potential

pandemics, and it did not go

well.”

Time Magazine, named the Ebola fighter

as its 2014 Person of the Year

reimagined care

setting

changing

behavior ICT

reimagined

suits

healthcare

worker tools

decontaminants

Rapidly sourced 14 innovations under Ebola Grand Challenge

1500 ideas

14 awards

($8.9M)

Providing critical support to test and scale

• Gaining access

to testing sites

Testing “smart band-aid” in IMC ETU in Sierra Leone

• Gaining access

to testing sites

• Helping get

critical user

feedback

(HCD)

Baylor’s rapidly deployable ETU – major design pivot after user feedback

Providing critical support to test and scale

Helping get critical user feedback (Human Centered Design) Putting the End User at the Center of the Innovation Design

• Gaining access

to testing sites

• Helping get

critical user

feedback (HCD)

• Building

partnerships

Providing critical support to test and scale

• Gaining access

to testing sites

• Helping get

critical user

feedback (HCD)

• Building

partnerships

• Planning for

market access

and scale

WHO hosted two meetings for innovators

MSF hosted innovators at mock ETU in Brussels to review with staff

Providing critical support to test and scale

Understanding the Market Unstable Market Makes Innovation Procurement Challenging

West Africa Product Procurement during the Ebola Outbreak

Understanding the Market “Business as Usual” Procurement Makes Innovation Procurement Possible

Standardized Path to Procurement

SUMMARY: CII Support for Scale and Sustainability

Business Model/ Market

Sustainability - Innovator- Specific Support. Guidance

in defining business model and sustainability strategies.

- Portfolio Level Support. Broader landscape assessments of emergency epidemic procurement + tangential

markets with routine procurement cycles and more predictable markets.

Human Centered Design

- On the Ground Assessments. Gaining honest context + feedback engaging with health care workers in West Africa

- Understanding the Local and Global Context. Acknowledging limitations of the environment and the user,

- HCD support helps to refine innovation design, product training + use cases

Policymakers/KOLs

- Developed Strong Relationships with Key Partners including: WHO, MSF, IMC, IFRC, Guinea MOH, and others.

- Adapted to the Changing Context.

- Continuing to Play a Role in the Conversation. CII has continued to facilitate and support ongoing conversations with global partners.

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- Secured access to testing sites

- Lined up external testing facilities

- Developed new safety standards (DOD/CDC)

R&D

Combating Zika and Future Threats supports a diverse portfolio of innovations

Vector Surveillance

Disease Surveillance Community Engagement

Vector Control Personal & Household Protection

Diagnostics

850 ideas

26 awards

($30M) Unmanned Aerial

Vehicles

Using UAV technology to accelerate our ability to deploy vector control and respond to outbreaks in far-flung communities

Vector surveillance to quickly identify emerging dangers

Vector control to eliminate the threat from key

vectors

Community engagement & household protection

to slow the spread of disease

We are helping innovators build the tools to respond to this Zika outbreak and the capacity to stop future vector-borne outbreaks before they spread

Pre-empt epidemics before they start Respond quickly to an emerging epidemic

Diagnostics & disease surveillance to support rapid identification of

disease spread and coordination of treatment

Apply cutting-edge tech to health crises

Zika and Future Threats is building capacity to respond to vector-borne epidemics

Thank you!