Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
On December 16, Friends of the Global Fight and the Alliance hosted a virtual private dialogue, “Leveraging AI for Efficient, Resilient Supply Chains in Global Health,” to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving medical supply chains worldwide. The event brought together technology innovators and supply chain, digital tech, and private sector partnership leads from The Global Fund, along with other members of the Friends Private Sector Advisory Council.
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In September 2024, the United Nations General Assembly will convene in New York to confront complex global challenges during its 79th session (UNGA 79). Included in the high-level agenda is the Summit of the Future, as well as High-Level Meetings on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the existential threats posed by sea-level rise. In parallel, Climate Week will bring together over 600 events and activities across NYC, with Nature, Food Systems and Health as a key theme. The Bay Area Global Health Alliance and many of its members will be in NYC to take part in the action that is shaping the development of our future.
Join Alliance members Friends of the Global Fight, Chevron, and Zenysis for a satellite session at AIDS 2024 on July 24, 2024 at 7:00 AM CET (July 23, 2024 at 10:00 PM PST) that will explore the role of the private sector as a key partner in health systems strengthening. This session will provide examples of private sector contributions to health systems and provide a space to discuss how to engage the private sector in productive collaborations with other stakeholders that leverage business capabilities to improve health and resilience in low- and middle-income countries and advance Universal Health Coverage.
Join Alliance members Chevron and Gilead Sciences for AIDS Walk San Francisco 2024. This event brings people from across the region together to remember those we’ve lost, show solidarity and support for those still fighting, and look to a future where HIV/AIDS is finally eradicated.
A virtual panel with Bay Area Global Health Alliance Members Americares, Chevron and Facebook. With representation across sectors, this discussion provided best practice strategies of how best to improve people’s health on the frontlines locally and globally.
With monkeypox now an international, national and state public health emergency, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences hosted an online update on the crisis. Experts from Bay Area Global Health Alliance member organizations UCSF, Stanford University, PRC, San Francisco Community Health Center, and Chevron, along with Santa Clara County Health Officer and Public Health Director Sara Cody, shared their perspectives.
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On Monday, October 30, 2023, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi received the first-ever Bay Area Global Health Alliance Leadership Award for her unwavering HIV/AIDS response leadership and contributions to advancing global health and equity throughout her career.
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The Alliance and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria brought together African health supply-chain innovators and global health stakeholders from multiple sectors to discuss how health supply chains are working to deliver equitable access to health in Africa. The dialogue was attended by 80 Alliance members and participants, including The Global Fund, Salient Advisory, Nivi, mPharma, Xetova, Chevron, JSI, Gilead, Stanford, BMGF, Vestergaard, Pathfinder, Americares, and Merck. The goal was to elevate the lessons learned from multi-stakeholder partnerships, especially from local innovators in Africa.
Collaboration across sectors is necessary to solve global challenges We believe in the catalytic power of shared knowledge and collaboration across our sectors. The Bay Area Global Health Alliance is a membership organization and central network hub, bringing together...
Huma AbbasiDr. Huma Abbasi is General Manager, Global Health and Medical, for Chevron Corporation, working out of the company’s headquarters in San Ramon, California, since June 2011. In this capacity, Dr. Abbasi is Chevron’s Chief Medical Officer. She oversees the...
Our StoryThe Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s mission is to advance global health innovation and equity and improve health outcomes by connecting and convening its cross-sector, multi-disciplinary members and partners.Our ValuesOur theory of change is based on the...
For the first time, the UN General Assembly will convene three High-Level Meetings on ending tuberculosis (TB), delivering universal health coverage (UHC) and strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response during its 78th session (UNGA 78) in New York in September 2023. To elevate and advocate for global health, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance will be attending UNGA 78, along with Alliance members.
On August 8, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance hosted Salient Advisory for a presentation on the findings from their latest market intelligence report that provided insights on funding trends, uptake of digital supply chain solutions by governments, the diverse range of identified supply chain solutions, and more. The report is the first pan-African landscape of health supply chain innovators on the continent and tracks nearly 350 technology-enabled innovators digitizing supply chain processes in Africa.
“Locally tailored innovations are showing immense promise to yield benefits for healthcare in African and other low- and middle-income countries,” writes Friends of the Global Fight in its insights report stemming from a convening of African health supply-chain innovators discussing how supply chains can deliver equitable access to health.