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Financing Cancer Care: Investing in Prevention, Early Detection, and Diagnosis

Globally, cancer claims nearly 10 million lives each year, inflicting immeasurable pain and loss across families, workplaces, and...
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Caitlyn Barrett, PhD, Yun Fu, and Kara Whelply
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Financing Cancer Care: Investing in Prevention, Early Detection, and Diagnosis

Globally, cancer claims nearly 10 million lives each year, inflicting immeasurable pain and loss across families, workplaces, and...
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Caitlyn Barrett, PhD, Yun Fu, and Kara Whelply

Financial Innovations Labs® (FIL) are the Milken Institute's signature, applied research projects, designed to devise new business models, policy recommendations, capital structures, and financial technologies that can achieve concrete goals. By bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders, FIL encourages collaboration among parties who may not normally interact to address global challenges by examination through a financial lens, leading to outcomes that influence the flow of capital to promote progress and change.

20th Anniversary: The Financial Innovations Lab

The Milken Institute Financial Innovations Lab® designs solutions to address the funding gaps and market failures for some of today’s most pressing global challenges.

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helped design over USD 3 billion in innovative investment funds focused on bridging financing gaps in various sectors, from biotech to agriculture.
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helped design a pooled donor fund with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, which resulted in improved health outcomes for 157 million women and children.
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worked with a coalition of donors to spur agricultural improvement in Africa resulting in a 98% reduction of Aflatoxin contamination of Maize crops.
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Focus Areas

Over the past 19 years, we have convened 70 FILs tackling complex issues in economic development, environmental sustainability, cultural heritage, education, health and medical, housing infrastructure, and nutrition.

Economic Development

FILs targeting market failures have helped design over $3 billion in innovative investment funds focused on bridging financing and...

Environmental Sustainability

FIL work around climate change, conservation, and environmental sustainability has increased the issuance of green bonds, as well...

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Complex global issues cannot be solved by government and philanthropy alone—private investment is also needed to bridge funding gaps and spur innovation. But aligning public, private, and philanthropic models in a way that generates both returns and social impact can be difficult. That’s where the Milken Institute Financial Innovations Lab® (FIL) comes in. We help close the funding gaps by clearing the way for private capital to invest in solutions that solve social, economic, and environmental challenges.

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Ashley Campany

Associate Director, Catalytic Capital, Milken Institute
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Théo Cohan

Director, Catalytic Capital, Milken Institute
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Yun Fu

Associate Director, Catalytic Capital, Milken Institute
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Kanika Singh

Director, Catalytic Capital, Milken Institute
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Caroline Teare

Senior Associate, Catalytic Capital, Milken Institute