How can novel financial solutions be applied to solve the most pressing impact challenges? How have the tensions around scale, speed, and flexibility been tackled in global health, and are these more broadly applicable across sectors? This panel will explore the tradeoffs that are considered when applying the transformative power of strategic grant-making as a catalyst for cutting edge financial innovation in global health. The session will highlight uses collaborative philanthropic efforts as a catalyst for change and the complicated complementarity of market-based interventions to ignite innovation and drive systemic change.
Philanthropy as a Spark: How Financial Innovation Ignites Change in Global Health
Raphael Ferry
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Track
Transforming Health Systems
Format
Panel (3 speakers)
Speakers
- NameMichelle Teo
- TitleChief Investment Officer
- OrganizationMedAccess
- NameMaria - TBC Kozloski - TBC
- TitleSenior Vice President
- OrganizationRockefeller Foundation
- NameNafisa Jiwani
- TitleManaging Director
- OrganizationUS International Development Finance Corporation
Description
How can novel financial solutions be applied to solve the most pressing impact challenges? How have the tensions around scale, speed, and flexibility been tackled in global health, and are these more broadly applicable across sectors? This panel will explore the tradeoffs that are considered when applying the transformative power of strategic grant-making as a catalyst for cutting edge financial innovation in global health. The session will highlight uses collaborative philanthropic efforts as a catalyst for change and the complicated complementarity of market-based interventions to ignite innovation and drive systemic change.
