To overcome funding challenges, global health organizations and their donors have developed financing tools, such as the advance market commitment (AMC), debt buy-downs, and pooled funds from tax revenue, that blend capital from the public and private sectors. The result has been great momentum toward models that can maximize impact and potentially generate returns for investors. Yet the creation and implementation of such models has been slow and labor-intensive. There has been measurable success, but also an urgent need to design the next generation of innovative financing products.
To this end, the Milken Institute, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, convened a Financial Innovations Lab® to map current and potential models with the goal of leveraging traditional sources of aid to attract private-sector investment and increase sustainable funding for R&D. With the global health funding landscape broad and diverse, the Lab focused on models that would engage a new tier of investor in terms of both financial capacity and risk appetite for financial products across asset classes. The group of market leaders and experts discussed the barriers to implementation, as well as potential solutions.
Countries undergoing population aging today are facing a much different experience than their historical counterparts. One only needs to look at the countries in Asia to see how these trends are unfolding. Demographic aging is happening...
The 26th annual Milken Institute Global Conference convened the best minds in the world to tackle its most urgent challenges and realize its most exciting opportunities. Throughout the four-day event, our health teams curated nearly three...
Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was confronted with a number of significant policy concerns. Today, working together to solve those challenges is more imperative than ever. The Milken Institute is committed...
The Financial Innovations Labs® and FasterCures teams have collaborated on a project to identify new models for financing the antimicrobial resistant antibiotic pipeline. These past 18 months have demonstrated how consequential public...
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In this collection of essays from the Center for the Future of Aging, experts identify challenges and opportunities in realizing the potential of healthy, productive and purposeful aging.
Technical Update Dementia presents a pernicious gender-based health disparity in the United States, inflicting a disproportionate burden on women as both patients and caregivers. Given the rapid increase in the population of older Americans...
Nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 sparked many of the largest US corporations to pledge more than $200 billion to advance racial equity and confront the nation’s history of systemic racism. Nonprofits, government agencies, and...
This year’s report, Building a Resilient America: The New Consensus for Action, is part of The Milken Institute-Harris Poll Listening Project, now in its fifth year, which surveys socioeconomic, institutional, and political barriers to...