2024 and 2025

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing public health challenges of the 21st century, particularly in LMICs, where economic and social factors exacerbate the misuse of antibiotics. At the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, PATH, in partnership with the Alliance, Pfizer, and the governments of Tanzania and Senegal announced a Commitment to Action to tackle AMR through an innovative outcomes-based financing mechanism. This approach aims to strengthen antimicrobial stewardship by addressing behavioral and market incentives that drive the overuse of antibiotics, fostering sustainable solutions to curb AMR in resource-limited settings.

December 2024

The Alliance and Baraka Impact Finance co-hosted a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Convening in December 2024 to identify and develop innovative strategies that increase private sector investment in healthcare across emerging and frontier markets, where over half of the world’s population remains underserved. The three-day convening brought together a diverse brain trust of global health financing experts from prestigious organizations.

February 15, 2023

In 2022, the Alliance was selected by the World Health Organization’s Tech Task Force to serve as its secretariat. Our collaboration with the Task Force is enabling regular engagement with the tech sector and allowing for increased opportunities for collaboration across our members. On February 15, the Alliance hosted a meeting marking the third anniversary of the formation of the Tech Task Force. Representatives from Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon and other tech companies joined Alliance members for networking and short presentations by Andy Pattison, Team Lead Digital Channels, WHO.

March 2025

A newly released white paper, Generative AI for Health in LMICs, sheds light on these questions, offering insights from a comprehensive review led by the Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) with support from Advancing Health Online (AHO) and the Bay Area Global Health Alliance as lead dissemination partner. The research, conducted between August and December 2024, draws on findings from two roundtable discussions, in-depth interviews with dozens of experts, a survey of more than 100 respondents, and an analysis of 14 GenAI accelerator programs that have collectively supported more than 250 health projects worldwide.

May 2024

In 2022, in partnership with UC Davis, we convened a diverse group of pandemic responders from across the United States to reflect on their experiences and challenges during COVID-19. Insights from the workshop informed the development of the Pandemic Preparedness Roadmap, released in 2024, which provides guidance for integrating academic and private sector expertise into pandemic preparedness and prevention.

May 2022

In 2022, with Meta and Merck, we were awarded a lead communications role for Advancing Health Online (AHO) to promote the RFP and subsequent results with our membership and global health network. Together with the Sabin Vaccine Institute, we led the AAHO’s dissemination efforts for an Insights Report, to share evidence from the 33 grantees, and how-tos with vaccine program implementers, public health communicators, behavior change scientists and other stakeholders.

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On November 12, the Alliance will convene a virtual design workshop to test tools that enhance partnership effectiveness and gather feedback from selected participants. The session, open to 2-3 multi-sector partnerships involving three or more organizations, will provide a space for partners to prototype the tools, discuss their applicability, and refine them for their own use, and broader use. Ideal partnerships to participate will represent organizations from different sectors—such as government, civil society, and private industry—working together to improve health outcomes in marginalized communities.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Too often, promising health interventions do not reach the world’s most vulnerable or are not effectively adapted to community needs and constraints, resulting in critical needs remaining unmet and growing health inequity. On Thursday, October 26, 2023, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s Insights to Action event explored practical solutions to close the gap between what we know and what we do, using the lens of implementation science to advance health equity.

AUGUST 8, 2024

Considerable advancements and significant investments in global health have marked recent years; yet numerous evidence-based interventions continue to fall short of their full potential. By leveraging the multidisciplinary and multi-sector strength of its members, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance explored these challenges through the lens of implementation science in our new insights report. The project engaged nearly 150 global health leaders across various disciplines and sectors to inform and enhance the design, implementation, and scalability of health solutions.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Too often, promising health interventions do not reach the world’s most vulnerable communities or are not effectively adapted to community needs and constraints, resulting in significant unmet needs and growing health inequity. The Bay Area Global Health Alliance, as a multi-sector network and trusted, neutral convener, seeks to better understand this problem and propose practical solutions to close the gap between what we know and what we do, using the lens of implementation science, in order to advance health equity.

June 5, 2025

The Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s 2025 Annual Meeting on June 5 brought together a diverse community of leaders, innovators, funders, and implementers at a pivotal time for global health. Held under Chatham House Rules to encourage open, candid dialogue, the convening reflected the urgency and complexity of a sector facing major funding cuts. Despite the challenges, there was a strong call to action across the community — to do bold things and reimagine the future, acknowledging the millions of lives depending on it.

May 16, 2022

Global health professionals from academia, NGOs, tech, biotech and other private sector partners gathered for the Alliance’s Annual Meeting on Monday, May 16, at UCSF. Amy Lin, acting director of USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact, discussed the future of the global health sector in a fireside chat moderated by PHI president and BAGHA board chair Mary Pittman. Lin explored where the sector is headed in light of the decolonization movement, pandemic/post-pandemic preparedness and recovery, climate change, and the current geopolitical situation.

MAY 21, 2024

“Global health really is a team effort,” said Colin Boyle, Alliance board chair and Lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, opening the Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s 4th Annual Meeting, where multisectoral members convened on May 21 to discuss bridging gaps and enhancing collaborative efforts across various sectors to tackle pressing health issues worldwide.

January 27, 2021

Nearly 100 attendees from nearly 50 member organizations convened online on January 27 for the Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s first-ever Annual Meeting. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Paulin Basinga, Director, Health, Africa, was the keynote speaker. He spoke in a fireside chat on “Solidarity in Vaccine Access” with Alliance board member Stefano Bertozzi, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy & Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.