Ideas Make Impact
We elevate global leaders who are catalyzing equitable transformations in health and development.
Creating an Inclusive Future: McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Awardees Shifting Paradigms from the Ground Up Part 1
Our society’s methods of distributing resources and solving collective problems are shaped by our thinking and assumptions about the world. How do we, as leaders, break through old assumptions and patterns to help make new…
Women Catalysts: Inspiring Stories of Global Health Entrepreneurship
In honor of women’s leadership and global impact, we celebrated and commemorated innovators who are advancing critical solutions, particularly women leaders addressing issues in health, climate, education, and economics. We hoped to inspire conversation—and action—around…
The Aspen Global Innovators Promise
For over 30 years, the Aspen Global Innovators Group has empowered health and development leaders from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Island States to build a safe, sustainable and healthier future for all people and communities. The impact of our Fellows reverberates across the globe.
Our mission is to empower visionary leaders and innovators who are working to build a more equitable society. Our global community stands tall with local leaders, collaborators, healers and fellows who have long been beacons in this movement and whose voices and work are critical to reshaping a healthy, equitable future for all. We are committed to amplifying the voices and impact of those who are leading this work.
1.2B
Individuals aided
through Fellow-led direct service care and policy initiatives
$100M
committed
to Fellows and partners after AGI initial leadership investments
55
Countries
where AGI Fellows and programs work and operate
240
AGIG Fellows
and Management Partners
15.6M
Audience
Combined total of publication-wide audience figures for all outlets featuring coverage
200M
Individuals reached
through Fellow publications and speaking engagements
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Catalyzing locally-rooted, globally networked leaders to become visible, effective advocates to champion more equitable development systems.
Supporting BIPOC local leaders who are spearheading community initiatives that address health inequities
Building Robust, Equitable and Coordinated Community Health Systems
By creating a forum to share knowledge and experience, Aspen Ideas: Health offers a unique opportunity to turn ideas into action and carve pathways toward better health for all.
Supporting governments to build visionary and effective teams.
Our Fellows
Folake Kio-Olayinka
Health Nigeria
Dr. Folake Kio-Olayinka is a Senior Technical Immunization Officer at the John Snow Inc. Immunization Center. She has extensive experience with polio from her time…
Erasma Monticcolo
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship NY, United States
Erasma is a native New Yorker who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where she co-founded Power of Two in 2015. As the Executive Director, she uses science…
Jane Otai
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Kenya
When Jane Otai walks through the Nairobi slums, she is no stranger. No stranger to the women living in corrugated-metal shacks or worse, no stranger…
Edward Mabaya
Food Security Zimbabwe
Dr. Edward Mabaya is the sixth of 10 children born to a Zimbabwean smallholder family who scraped by growing maize, cabbages, potatoes and yams mainly…
Stephen Kennedy
Health Liberia
With 27 years of experience as a medical doctor, Dr. Stephen Kennedy is the co-principal investigator (Co-PI) of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Vaccine Trial…
Neo Tapela
Health Botswana
Neo is a doctor with experience in health systems strengthening and effective service delivery for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease,…
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The Aspen Global Innovators Group supports two flagship fellowship programs. These fellowships enable leaders to amplify their voices, visibility and impact. Leaders bring expertise from all sectors and include entrepreneurs, community organizers and local experts who are both proximate to the greatest health and development challenges of our time and also bring lived and learned experience to their solutions.
Knowledge Hub
Our fellows and community partners are committed to advance the discourse and impact of global health and development innovations by creating knowledge products. The knowledge hub is a resource for all who are dedicated to learning from and collaborating with this dynamic community!