The Bay Area Global Health Alliance Supports a Proposal to Drive Inclusive Innovation at USAID

In April 2022, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance joined more than  100 organizations in endorsing the Global Health Technologies Coalition’s (GHTC) SIGHT Fund letter. This letter is in support of the inclusion of $250 million in the fiscal year 2023 (FY23) State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs bill to establish the Supporting Innovative Global Health Technologies (SIGHT) Fund at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The SIGHT Fund is a proposal for a new flexible, catalytic fund to be housed at USAID that would infuse new funding into R&D efforts to close the biggest gaps in our global health toolkit and save more lives more quickly. The Fund would support investments toward R&D of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and medical devices to address a range of global health challenges.

As advancing global health innovation and equity are core values of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, we are proud to support this initiative to catalyze the development of tools that accelerate progress against emerging and enduring global health challenges.

Learn more about the SIGHT Fund and the GHTC, a PATH initiative