CII's Work at a Glance

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.

What we do:

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Incubate New Ideas:
We anticipate needs, design cutting edge initiatives, and publish thought pieces and global goods that draw on experiences from the private sector and domains beyond health to explore how transformative ideas can be applied to global health goals.

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Put Ideas Into Practice
We move from theory to action, piloting projects, launching initiatives, and demonstrating use cases. Learning with intention, we collect and share our insights with the global health community to inform program planning and investments.

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Scale Effective Approaches
We embed proven approaches into health programs, shape policy guidance, invest in systems change, and train stakeholders so they can integrate these practices into their work.

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INTRODUCING FINDING THE SIGNAL: HARNESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADVANCED ANALYTICS AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLIMATE AND GLOBAL HEALTH

CII partnered with teams across USAID and with external partners to better understand the complex relationship between climate and health and the potential role of artificial intelligence/advanced analytics (AI/AA). AI/AA can improve our understanding to describe complex, evolving, and often non-obvious relationships between climate and health factors; predict scenarios over different time horizons; and recommend interventions with trade-offs to optimize resulting health outcomes. As global attention increasingly focuses on data, climate, and health topics, CII is identifying potential action pathways that encourage investing in enablers for data, capabilities, and ecosystem conditions as well as acting on specific climate-sensitive health risks.

 

Innovation

Partnerships

Market Shaping and Innovative Financing

 
 
 

Introduction and Scale (IDEA to IMPACT Series)