The Bay Area Global Health Alliance strengthens the global health ecosystem by catalyzing cross-sector collaboration and accelerating the flow of innovation, capital, and partnerships to advance health equity and improve outcomes worldwide.

In an era of constrained resources and growing complexity, we help organizations navigate rapid change and accomplish more together than they could alone. As a trusted, neutral platform, we bring together leaders across sectors and geographies to build relationships, generate collective intelligence, identify new opportunities, and move ideas toward action.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley and connected globally, the Alliance has grown from 16 founding organizations in 2020 into a global cross-sector network of more than 110 members.

Global health is operating in a fundamentally different landscape than it was just a few years ago. Artificial intelligence is transforming health. New technologies, new sources of capital, and new actors are reshaping how innovation reaches the world, while geopolitical shifts and unprecedented funding disruption are redefining long-standing institutions and partnerships.

The pace of change is outstripping the ability of organizations to adapt, making trusted cross-sector collaboration more important—and more challenging—than ever. Organizations increasingly need trusted spaces where they can understand emerging landscapes, connect across sectors, test ideas, build relationships, and coordinate action.

The future of global health depends not only on breakthrough innovations, but on stronger ecosystems, so the Alliance builds the relationships and connective infrastructure that help move innovation, capital, and partnerships toward stronger health systems, expanded access, and greater impact.

The Alliance was founded in 2020 with a straightforward purpose: to bring together a fragmented but remarkable Bay Area global health community. We believed that solving complex global health challenges required stronger connections across sectors, disciplines, and organizations—and that the Bay Area, with its concentration of technology, life sciences, philanthropy, academia, and global health expertise, was uniquely positioned to bridge those worlds.

That original idea has proven remarkably durable. What has changed is the scale of our network and our understanding of the role we play.

From 16 founding members, the Alliance has grown into a global cross-sector network of more than 110 organizations, extending well beyond the Bay Area while remaining rooted in Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem. Our distinctive concentration of technology, private sector, and low- and middle-income country organizations gives us an uncommon ability to bridge communities that rarely work together—connecting technology with public health, innovation with implementation, global expertise with local leadership, and emerging ideas with real-world impact.

As our network and work have grown, so has our understanding of what makes the Alliance valuable. We are not simply connecting organizations. We are helping strengthen the ecosystem that enables organizations to navigate change, learn from one another, build trusted relationships, and accomplish more together than they could alone.

Since 2020, the Alliance has demonstrated how stronger relationships, collective intelligence, and cross-sector collaboration can strengthen the broader global health ecosystem.

Convening the right leaders at the right time
Produced and facilitated strategic convenings and executive dialogues alongside major global health moments, including the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, SOCAP, Africa HealthTech Summit, Global Digital Health Forum, and other leading forums.

Catalyzing cross-sector collaboration
Served as secretariat for the WHO Tech Task Force, strategic partner to Advancing Health Online, and collaborator on initiatives spanning AI and digital health, global health financing, implementation science, partnerships, antimicrobial resistance, health systems strengthening, and more.

Surfacing strategic intelligence
Designed executive roundtables, focus groups, landscape analyses, ecosystem mapping, strategic dialogues, and briefings that help organizations understand emerging technologies, navigate complexity, pressure-test ideas, and make better-informed decisions.

Serving as a trusted, neutral platform
Created candid conversations where leaders across sectors can share diverse perspectives, explore complex or sensitive issues, and develop stronger strategies and partnerships.

Disseminating and amplifying ideas
Extended the reach of research, initiatives, innovations, and thought leadership through strategic communications, executive briefings, webinars, collaborative launches, the Connections newsletter, and targeted dissemination across the global health ecosystem.

Building community and strengthening the ecosystem
Grew from 16 founding organizations to more than 110 cross-sector members, creating a trusted global community that spans sectors, disciplines, and geographies.

Bridging sectors to action
Helped organizations identify strategic partners, shape investment and product strategies, launch new collaborations, and accelerate the flow of innovation, capital, and partnerships toward greater impact.

Across these efforts, the Alliance helps organizations navigate complexity, build trusted relationships, generate collective intelligence, and move from connection and ideas to collaboration and action.

Two strengths underpin our work:

A uniquely cross-sector network. Our membership spans technology, industry, philanthropy, academia, government, investors, nonprofits, and implementing organizations across the globe. This diversity allows us to connect perspectives, expertise, and resources that are often fragmented across sectors.

A trusted, neutral platform. Because the Alliance is neither a funder nor implementer, organizations trust us to convene candid dialogue, surface diverse perspectives, pressure-test ideas, facilitate collaboration across institutional boundaries, and create environments where stronger decisions, partnerships, and strategies can emerge.

Together, these strengths allow the Alliance to serve as connective infrastructure for a global health ecosystem that increasingly depends on collaboration across traditional boundaries.

A dedication to working together for innovation and impact for all unites us and is our strength.

Across our diverse membership, we share a commitment to:

• Global health impact and equity, advancing stronger health systems, expanded access, and better health outcomes, particularly for communities that have historically been underserved.
• Innovation in service of impact, connecting technology and new approaches with the needs, realities, and expertise of the broader global health ecosystem.
• Collaboration and community, grounded in trust, respect, shared integrity, and a belief that organizations can accomplish more together than they can alone.
• Intentional inclusion, elevating diverse perspectives, supporting locally led approaches, putting people at the center, and reducing barriers that prevent organizations and communities from working together.
• Continuous and multidirectional learning, creating space for candid, evidence-based dialogue and the exchange of knowledge across sectors, organizations, disciplines, and geographies.