Krishna Udayakumar

Krishna Udayakumar is the founding Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, focused on generating deeper evidence and support for the study, scaling, and adaptation of health innovations and policy reforms globally. He is also Executive Director of Innovations in Healthcare, a non-profit co-founded by Duke, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum, leading the organization’s work to curate and scale the impact of transformative health solutions globally.

https://www.innovationsinhealthcare.org/

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Articles by Krishna Udayakumar

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Tuesday
July 21
2020

Pratik Doshi / Sowmya Rajan / Andrea Taylor / Blen Biru / Joy Noel Baumgartner / Krishna Udayakumar

The Ripple Effects of Funding Global Health Innovations: How Philanthropic Capital and Impact Investing are Shaping Markets

The Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge for Development has leveraged nearly $80 million dollars in investment capital over the last decade to fund over 110 innovations targeting the maternal and neonatal health sector in emerging markets. Analysts at Duke University explore the program's impact in India and Kenya, two of the fastest-growing hubs of innovation in their respective regions.

Categories
Health Care, Impact Assessment

Tags
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, emerging markets, funding, global health, health care, impact investing, innovation, LMICs, maternal health, SDGs

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Krishna Udayakumar

Articles by Krishna Udayakumar

The Ripple Effects of Funding Global Health Innovations: How Philanthropic Capital and Impact Investing are Shaping Markets