India Health Fund – Accelerating Innovation to Combat Infectious Diseases

Описание: Pasteur Network Monthly seminar (April 10th, 2025)

Abtract:
India Health Fund (IHF) is a catalytic fund set up by Tata Trusts and the Global Fund, incorporated as a non-profit company in 2017. IHF funds the development and de-risking of frontier science and technology-based innovations addressing infectious diseases, anti-microbial resistance and the impact of climate change on health (climate adaptation), with a particular focus on improving access and equity. IHF works to strengthen health systems and improve health equity by catalysing the lab to market the journey of affordable new tools for infectious diseases and fostering collaborations to increase impact. So far, IHF has supported 16 innovations across infectious disease surveillance, screening and diagnosis with digital health as a crosscutting theme.
In line with Tata Trusts’ objective of establishing a platform for collaborative funding in healthcare, IHF develops partnerships for collaborative financing to fund product development, evidence generation, knowledge sharing and scale-up of these solutions in India & other developing countries. Today's webinar is structured to inform the audience in detail about IHF, its activities and pave the road for exploring potential collaborations for accelerating innovations towards the end user and helping curb preventable deaths, especially in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) where the burden of infectious diseases is high, and healthcare system faces many a lacuna.

The speaker
Raghav is Director, Portfolio at India Health Fund where he leads investment support to innovative health technology startups working within infectious diseases. He leads a team of public health experts who understand the key need gaps within infectious diseases, human AMR, and the impact of climate change on health to identify potential solutions based in technology. His team supports the innovators to navigate the product development/validation landscape through funding and technical support, project management and enabling partnerships within the public health ecosystem for forward linkages. He has an experience of around 17 years, starting with business consulting, deep science healthcare startups and the non-profit sectors. He previously worked in consumer products strategic advisory at firms like Capgemini Consulting and Datamonitor. He has experience with deep science startups from the US and UK across critical care, acoustic cardiography and cancer diagnostics, leading India market entry strategy development, user research and product development.