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CII partnered with DICE and Digital Square to co-author the Primer on Digital Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccination Service Delivery. This innovative report aims to guide digital investments in support of the COVID-19 vaccination response by highlighting use cases and case studies that illustrate how data and digital health tools can support immunization service delivery. The Primer also focuses on approaches to ensure that digital investments made to address emergency needs outlast the current crisis. It is designed for a general audience, but with an eye towards planners, funders, and implementers looking to utilize digital health tools for pandemic and post-pandemic response.
While the Primer was created in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is designed to support thinking around how digital systems and the data they enable can provide support in future health emergencies, in routine immunization programs, and in health system strengthening. To learn more about the Primer, visit this microsite and download the report directly.
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Launch of Contraceptive Innovation Index tool |
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CII and the USAID-funded Expanding Effective Contraceptive Options (EECO) project have rolled out the Contraceptive Innovation Index, a tool to help facilitate decision-making around the introduction and scale-up of contraceptive technologies. The Index helps bring attention to where additional data and/or investment would be most useful prior to launching or scaling an innovation. To illustrate how to apply the Contraceptive Innovation Index, two case studies are included within the report: the hormonal IUD in Nigeria and the Caya diaphragm in Niger. The Contraceptive Innovation Index builds upon CII’s Global Health Innovation Index, with adaptations to reflect the complexities and specifics of contraceptive markets.
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Contraceptive Innovation Index
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CII's Amarynth Sichel joins Negev Forum's Inaugural Meeting |
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CII Digital Health Advisor Amarynth Sichel joined a US delegation to the inaugural meeting of the Negev Forum’s working groups in Abu Dhabi. The Negev Forum brought together senior government officials from Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco and the UAE to collaborate on specific areas of shared interest, and was the largest gathering of Arab and Israeli government representatives in approximately 30 years. Amarynth provided technical input related to digital health and telemedicine, in support of the inter-agency US Health Working Group delegation headed by CDC’s Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Dr. Jay Butler, and staffed by representatives from CDC, State and USAID. See Secretary Blinken’s statement on the forum and learn more here.
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  Negev Forum attendees
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CII rolls out new websites |
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USAID's Market Access and Innovative Finance (MAIF) Mechanism, managed by CII, has a new website. The mechanism offers technical expertise to help USAID answer key market access and innovative financing questions to improve health outcomes. MAIF is led by Rios Partners with a consortium that includes Boston Consulting Group, Global Development Incubator, Jhpiego, Open Capital Advisors, Sagaci Research, AMP Health and Social Finance.
CII also revealed our new team website redesign this month. The site features our latest report on climate change, AI/AA, and health, our 2022 Impact Brief, and much more to come in 2023!
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AMP Health welcomes Chioma Ogozobor as their newest Management Partner. She’ll be working to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in Ghana as an embed with the Ghana Health Service
USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health Atul Gawande’s Global Digital Health Forum keynote speech now live on USAID Youtube
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Tori Fessenden: CII Alum, Innovation Policy Associate at Breakthrough Energy
Tori currently serves as an Innovation Policy Associate at Breakthrough Energy, a Gates company that aims to inspire the world to develop and scale the critical solutions we need to reach net-zero emissions. In her work she manages and implements BE’s policy and advocacy efforts to expand federal clean energy innovation efforts. During her time at CII, Tori worked as a Program Analyst with our innovation team.
Some of her favorite memories of CII include outdoor happy hours and any time spent with the team.
Read Tori’s full interview here.
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USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) takes strategic risks to incubate new ideas, put them into practice, and scale effective approaches for critical health issues. We apply our expertise in innovation, market-based solutions, and digital health to work in partnership and through institutional change.
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