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Ready, Set, Launch:  A Country-Level Launch Planning Guide for Global Health Innovations

David Milestone  

Deputy Director, USAID Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact

David Milestone from USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) will introduce the newest addition to CII’s IDEA TO IMPACT series - READY, SET, LAUNCH: A Country-Level Launch Planning Guide for Global Health Innovations. This publication brings a sharp focus to the critical pivot from global product development to targeted country selection and launch planning. With input from a diverse set of practitioners and lessons gathered from successful and not-so-successful launches, this work brings together guidance, tools, and case studies to support the development of a country scale-up strategy and operational launch plan.

David will also share the latest tools from CII which applies business-minded approaches to the development, introduction and scale-up of health interventions to accelerate impact against the world's most important health challenges.  CII – which resides in the Global Health Bureau – invests seed capital in the most promising ideas and applies a rigorous, market-oriented approach to cut the time it takes to transform discoveries in the lab to impact on the ground.