Celebrating Five Years as an Alliance

The start of 2025 marked the Alliance’s fifth anniversary — a milestone that arrived during one of the most challenging moments in global health. As policy shifts and funding cuts reshaped the landscape, we chose to pause any anniversary celebration and focus instead on supporting our community and doubling down on the areas where the Alliance could offer the greatest value.

As we close 2025, we’re even clearer on how essential — and how strong — this community is. This anniversary year has offered a moment to reflect on all that has been built through the collective efforts of our cross-sector network, which bridges technology, industry, innovation, and traditional global health. The progress and partnerships that have emerged since January 2020 are a direct reflection of the energy, insight, and leadership that our members bring to this work. While we didn’t mark the anniversary earlier, we want to take a moment now to recognize what this community has achieved together — and to acknowledge the tremendous contributions of our members, whose engagement continues to drive the Alliance forward.

Beginning with 16 catalytic founding members in 2020, we were founded on the belief that no one organization can tackle the complex global health challenges before us alone. Today, our Alliance has grown to include over 100 member organizations spanning sectors, expertise, and geographies — a testament to the power of cross-sector collaboration, the strength of a trusted community, and our shared commitment to meaningful global health innovation and impact. Together, our community explores how AI can strengthen health systems, shares insights on financing to expand sustainable investment, and navigates global policy shifts.

While the Alliance continues to harness the Bay Area’s innovation ethos, our vision for impact has grown increasingly global. Among our 108 members, 41% focus on tech or digital health, 31% represent private sector partners, 28% are based in the Bay Area, and 16% are based in low- and middle-income countries.

Our role as a neutral convener and catalyst has been to connect diverse stakeholders across academia, industry, startups, nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions, drive innovation, advance health equity, and foster trust and collaboration across communities. We are dedicated to building bridges, creating catalytic partnerships, and turning collective expertise and evidence-based dialogue into real-world solutions that expand access, strengthen health systems, and improve health outcomes for all.

As we celebrate this milestone, we are proud to share a few of the Alliance’s key achievements:

• Served as the secretariat of the World Health Organization’s Tech Task Force during the pandemic and beyond.
• Hosted the 2024 and 2025 AI and Global Health Discussion Series, sponsored by Pfizer, following our participation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Roundtable in 2023 on AI and Global Health.
• Awarded panels at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2024, 2025, and 2026, with the 2024 JPM panel being their first exploring investments in emerging markets. The theme was carried forward in 2024 at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, gathering global health financing experts on how to ignite private capital for global health, and in 2025 with a SOCAP side meeting on impact investing.
• Serving as a strategic partner of Advancing Health Online (AHO), a $40M initiative to help accelerate the use of social media, digital platforms, and GenAI to improve health outcomes. 
• Built a vibrant, trusted cross-sector community of more than 100 organizations bridging tech, industry and traditional global health stakeholders – with leadership from an engaged 20-person Board of Directors, a lean, experienced secretariat, and a student advisory council focused on the next generation of global health leaders.
• Held more than 100 cross-sector convenings and events, published 61+ monthly newsletters to curate and amplify the work of our community, and produced, supported, and helped disseminate 36+ insights reports for sharing learnings, including Implementing for Health Equity: Narrowing the Know-Do Gap, Generative AI for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries with Stanford CDH, and the Pandemic Preparedness Roadmap with UC Davis.

We are thankful to our community for their partnership and dedication as we celebrate the Alliance’s work that has set the stage for even greater impact ahead as we navigate this new landscape of global health and reimagine what we can achieve together.

 

Programming Over the Past Five Years

The Alliance’s programming has sought to stay ahead of the curve by centering our work on topics that are anticipated to be key to reimagining a sustainable and equitable future in global health. Together, we have explored how AI and digital innovation can strengthen health systems, advanced conversations on sustainable investment to scale impact, and provided knowledge to our community to navigate global policy shifts. Through convenings, roundtables, and networking opportunities we continue to bring people together to share insights, spark innovation, and accelerate meaningful change.

 

AI, Digital Health, and Technology

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), digital technology, and global health is unlocking new possibilities to improve health outcomes, expand access, and address persistent challenges across health systems worldwide. At the Alliance, we are convening cross-sector leaders to explore how AI can be responsibly and effectively applied to global health. Building on momentum from our 2023 Annual Meeting panel and our participation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Roundtable on AI and Global Health along with 25+ experts and stakeholders, our community has voiced a strong interest in continuing to shape this fast-evolving frontier. We have hosted the 2024 and 2025 AI and Global Health Discussion Series, sponsored by Pfizer, profiling a range of use cases and offering a space for candid conversations to explore the opportunities, challenges, and the responsible and ethical implementation of AI in global health initiatives. Learn more.

 

Financing and Investments

As traditional global health funding faces mounting challenges, private capital, impact investing, and innovative financing are increasingly critical. In alignment with our mission, the Alliance is fostering multi-sector dialogues to catalyze greater private-sector investment in healthcare across emerging markets. Our programming — including convenings at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2024, 2025 and 2026, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, outcomes-based financing efforts targeting antimicrobial resistance, and a SOCAP side session on impact investing — is helping shape the future of sustainable global health financing and investments. Learn more.

 

U.S. Government Policy Shifts

Amid significant shifts in U.S. government policy affecting global health, the Alliance is working to meet this moment by curating timely policy updates and resources, advancing programming that supports innovation and sustainable financing, convening our cross-sector network through targeted roundtables to understand the implications, and fostering collaboration to help members navigate uncertainty and shape the future of global health. Each month, we have curated and shared key U.S. government updates, resources, and news sources to help keep the global health community informed and engaged, and to help with navigating the ongoing situation. We have also brought together leaders from 32 nonprofit and NGO member organizations across geographies and disciplines for three private Chatham House Rules NGO roundtables and hosted a discussion with Anil Soni, CEO of the WHO Foundation, unpacking what the policy shifts mean for multi-sector partnerships, scientific collaboration, and the future of U.S. competitiveness in global health. Learn more.

 

Multi-Sectoral Collaboration and Partnerships

The Alliance’s theory of change rests on a central belief: solving today’s complex global health challenges requires collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and geographies. As a cross-sector membership network, we bridge technology, industry, and innovation with traditional global health—grounded in shared values and a commitment to cultivating a community built on trust and collaboration. Through strategic partnerships, convenings, roundtables, and networking opportunities, we bring people together to exchange insights, spark innovation, and accelerate meaningful change. We have served as the secretariat of the WHO Tech Task Force; partnered with Advancing Health Online (AHO) since its inception; brought PATH and Pfizer together to explore innovative financing for AMR; collaborated with UCSF on the launch of the Lancet Commission’s 2050 report; and presented the first Bay Area Global Health Alliance Award to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, among many other convenings. We also help generate and disseminate actionable insights, including Generative AI for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries with Stanford CDH; the Pandemic Preparedness Roadmap with UC Davis; and Implementing for Health Equity: Narrowing the Know-Do Gap. Findings from our implementation-science work—including the need for clearer communication, aligned incentives, and community-driven design—continue to shape how we build community and foster effective, cross-sector partnerships across the Alliance. Learn more.

 

Academic Engagement

The Alliance is grateful to our founding academic members — Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCSF, and UC Davis — for their invaluable partnership and expertise. With board guidance, we’ve worked together to strengthen academic engagement and support the next generation of global health leaders. We launched our inaugural 2025 Student Advisory Council, participated in the Berkeley Board Fellows program since 2024, co-hosted the Bay Area launch of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health report with UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Stanford, supported Stanford Biodesign’s Innovation & Health Equity Discussion Series, and supported student career journeys through a Global Health Careers Panel and the Global Health Opportunities Fair led by Stanford students. Learn more.

 

Building Our Future Together

“The Alliance’s strategic advantage is its cross-sector perspective. You’re creating space for reimagining, not just reacting. And at this moment, that’s invaluable,” shared an Alliance member at our NGO Roundtables.

As we look ahead, the Alliance is inspired by the potential of what we can continue to achieve together. The past five years have shown that when diverse voices come together with a shared purpose, we can create a foundation of multi-sectoral expertise and engagement that enables the Alliance to advance solutions, foster collaboration, and drive progress in global health.

The journey ahead will require the same spirit of partnership that has brought us this far, alongside a commitment to reimagining how we partner, deliver global health services, and advance global health innovation in the age of AI. By continuing to bring together diverse stakeholders and fostering cross-sector dialogue to bridge silos, the Alliance will remain a space where ideas are transformed into action and innovation translates into meaningful global health impact.

Building on the momentum of the past five years, we will continue to reimagine what is possible in global health, create pathways to advance health equity, and discover solutions that are sustainable, inclusive, and far-reaching. The Alliance’s work is made possible by the shared dedication of its members, and we look forward to shaping the next chapter of global health — building our future together.

 

Photos | 2025 In-Person Convenings