Impact
Measuring Success: SDG Impact x Innovations Scaled
We focus on achieving sustainable development goal (SDG) impact in parallel with economic growth by combining traditional philanthropy with principles of entrepreneurship and venture capital investment. We develop and validate new common impact assessment frameworks for health security innovations that help lower the barriers to impact investing.
Featured Programs
BioPrevail
Biological Preparedness and Resilience through Evolution and Innovation of Laboratories (BioPrevail) is a health security innovation initiative for sustainable laboratories convened by the G7 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (Global Partnership) and hosted by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). The GHS Fund serves as program secretariat and is leading the development of the BioPrevail Innovation Ecosystem to identify, develop, and scale innovations that improve diagnostic laboratories sustainability in all environments as a means of strengthening global health security.
World Health Organization Innovation Hub
The World Health Organization (WHO) Innovation Hub works with policymakers, the private sector, and the investor community to build the foundations of life-saving digital innovations for all. The WHO Innovation Hub provides normative guidance, supports the scale-up of innovation, and facilitates collaborative learning and capabilities strengthening to help sustainably disseminate innovation. The GHS Fund supports the WHO Innovation Hub as a WHO Donor Partner.”
GHS Fund Access Awards
The GHS Fund Access Awards recognize leadership and innovation in improving access to healthcare with a focus on impact in the Global South. The GHS Fund annually selects an Access Award theme and brings together an award community to design, promote, and select an honoree leading the push for access in the selected field. The GHS Fund announced the “Katherine McDonald Urological Oncology Access Award” as the inaugural Access Award program during the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
GHS Fund Senior Fellowship
The GHS Fund Senior Fellowship program enables experienced health security professionals to explore new opportunities for engagement with the innovation community while contributing to the GHS Fund’s mission and growth. Senior Fellows receive funding and programmatic support for a time period of up to three months, during which they work alongside the GHS Fund team on a specific project aligned with their own experience and tailored to their professional development goals. The Senior Fellows program is particularly well suited to officials of international organizations during gaps or changes of assignment and to mid-to-late career professionals exploring career transitions. Senior Fellows are competitively selected on a rolling basis.
UNODA Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship (Y4B) provides a unique learning and networking experience into multilateral discussions taking place in the framework of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva. The GHS Fund sponsored the 2023 Y4B Fellowship and organized a one-day seminar on innovation for the 20 selected participants from the Global South during their in-person programming in Geneva at the Palais des Nations, including a communications workshop presented by Geneva-based Infinity Communications and a human-centered design workshop presented by All Systems Go!
Action Accelerator Vehicle
Presented in collaboration with South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the Action Accelerator Vehicle introduces technical experts from the Africa CDC-designated Regional Center for Excellence in Biosafety and Biosecurity to concepts of innovation, human-centered design, and effective communications through a year-long program sponsored and co-organized by the GHS Fund.
No One is Coming, It’s Up to Us: Building a Health Innovation Ecosystem
The Global Health Security Fund (GHSF) and Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx) presented a systems design workshop to coincide with the 2023 World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The invitation-only session brought together a hand-selected group of changemakers who have the perspective, influence, and courage to enable a real systemic shift. During the workshop, experienced facilitators provoked attendees to identify the unaddressed gaps and challenges in the existing global health innovation ecosystem, pinpoint opportunities for change, and develop action plans to address them. This unique cohort of innovators, investors, leaders, and experts helped to shape creative design-led strategy for a new collaborative effort in global health innovation.
Biosafety Journal Club
The GHS Fund Biosafety Journal Club takes a community-driven approach towards health security capacity building by providing locally-relevant training for biosafety and biosecurity professionals in diverse languages. Launched in 2022 as the PandemicTech Journal Club and initially providing Spanish-language virtual training sessions tailored for Latin America-based experts, the Biosafety Journal Club attracts hundreds of professionals from 40+ countries across the globe to its bimonthly virtual sessions.
Innovation for Change
Innovation for Change (I4C), was born in 2016 from a joint collaboration between Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) and Collège des Ingénieurs (CDI), together with other partners, for enabling corporates, institutions and multidisciplinary postgraduate talents to work together to develop disruptive solutions for ESG related global challenges. GHS Fund was a nonprofit sponsor organization in 2023.