01 Mar Innovative financing and global health

Posted at 17:07h in News by WPD Staff

Brooke Riley, ONE Blog

The UN Foundation, in partnership with the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) and the Standard Bank recently hosted a panel on the role of innovative financing and the global health funding gap.

Innovative financing plays a critical role in promoting efficiencies in investments and addressing funding gaps for foreign assistance, which is more important than ever given the challenging fiscal climate. Keynote speaker Amie Batson, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID, said “innovative finance, alongside advances in research, clinical practice and social marketing, is crucial in our efforts to reach ambitious global health goals in a resource-constrained environment.”