Purpose

The GHS Fund is a Geneva-based nonprofit that supports impact investment in health security innovations.

We bring together traditional philanthropy with entrepreneurship and venture capital investment principles to enable both private and public sector support for scaling equitable, financially sustainable solutions to our most pressing health security challenges.
“Local innovators are best equipped to create solutions for their own communities but often lack resources outside of mature innovation ecosystems, most notably access to early stage capital. The private sector can’t just sit back and watch. We need to support these innovators by actually investing while building confidence for other impact investors to do the same.”

-Andrew Nerlinger, MD, Executive Director, Global Health Security Fund

What is Global Health Security?

“Global health security is a state of freedom from the scourge of infectious disease, irrespective of origin or source. It is achieved through the policies, programmes, and activities taken to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from biological threats… These threats know no borders and have global consequences requiring more effective collective action.”

– From the Sydney Statement on Global Health Security, Global Health Security Network, 2019

What is Impact Investing?

We define Impact Investment as investing – either grant or equity funding – in sustainable, scalable companies or organizations that prioritize making a measurable impact on achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs).

COVID-19 has taught us that innovative solutions to fighting pandemics are both essential and investible. Local innovators are best equipped to create these solutions for their own communities but often lack resources outside of mature innovation ecosystems, most notably access to early stage capital. The private sector can’t just sit back and watch.

We need to support these innovators by actually investing while building confidence for other impact investors to do the same.

Focus Areas

We support activities across the scope of GHS:

HEALTH EQUITY AND ACCESS
MENTAL HEALTH
COMMUNITY RESILIENCY
PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS
INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE
PUBLIC POLICY AND COMMUNICATION

ONE HEALTH: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND ANIMAL HEALTH
VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
DIAGNOSTICS, THERAPEUTICS
FUTURE HEALTH SECURITY THREATS