Center for Innovation and Impact
New guidance for how USAID invests in country-based digital systems
Learn moreUSAID's Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) drives innovative approaches to advance USAID’s three strategic health priorities: preventing child and maternal deaths, controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and combating infectious disease. CII catalyzes the work of USAID Missions and the Bureau for Global Health by applying expertise in innovation, market access, innovative finance, and digital health and driving new approaches to overcoming global health challenges.
What We Do
CII's innovation programs employ out-of-the-box practices, including human-centered design, to meet the needs of end users.
CII's market access programs co-design market shaping, launch planning, and other scale-up strategies to accelerate availability of health products.
CII's innovative financing programs explore non-traditional approaches to catalyze financing for health priorities.
CII's digital health programs leverage our digital health expertise, network, and resources to build stronger digital health systems and enabling environments.
Resources and Publications by Technical Area
Projects and Partnerships
Project Last Mile
If you can find an ice-cold Coca-Cola product almost anywhere in Africa, why not life-saving medicines? Project Last Mile is a leading public-private partnership for health, translating supply chain and marketing innovations and best practices from the Coca-Cola ecosystem to strengthen public health systems down to the last mile.
MAIF
MAIF -- Market Access and Innovative Financing -- applies market-led approaches to accelerate global health goals. Market access projects include introducing or expanding access to a new product or service. Innovative financing projects harness different financial tools and structures to expand capital and manage costs.
Digital Square
Strong digital health systems provide governments and decision-makers with the information they need, when they need it to ensure better health outcomes for all. Digital Square aims to strengthen the country's efforts to develop national digital health infrastructure. We ensure these efforts are supported by coordinated investments and a selection of high-quality digital health tools.
Subscribe to our e-Newsletter & follow us on LinkedIn for regular updates: