India Health Fund was conceived to help accelerate progress towards the elimination of infectious diseases. We do this by addressing the gaps in funding for product development, in mentorship and in market scale-up, often faced by small and mid-size entities, with powerful ideas that have the potential to make a significant difference in achieving better healthcare outcomes.
We also support the development of effective business models, enable collaborations and develop financing mechanisms, all with the objective of ensuring wide scale-up of solutions that can deliver extensive and significant outcomes in healthcare.
Our Vision
Enabling innovations for a healthier world.
Our Mission
To strengthen health systems and improve access to healthcare by:-
Accelerating lab to last mile journey of innovations.
Building collaborations.
Catalyzing and aggregating funds.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to support and scale innovations through a pooled mechanism of health financing to support the goal of reducing preventable deaths from infectious diseases and other public health threats.
Our Approach
Our efforts are geared towards creating a pooled mechanism for health financing in India and other parts of the world, designing scalable models that can facilitate the adoption of new technologies to augment efforts towards the elimination of infectious diseases. We follow a 5 step approach:
1. Identify and Prioritize Problems
We map the disease landscape and identify gaps and problems and develop problem statements. We then map the available and emerging technologies with our problem statements. Based on this process, we prioritize technologies with the greatest potential to improve outcomes vis-a-vis available solutions.
2. Find and Fund Innovations
We scout for innovations through a number of channels and targeted programs. The selected innovations are supported through milestone-based funding for product development, clinical and community validation.
3. Portfolio Management
We support projects and ensure scale-up and success through ecosystem support, network access and mentorship.
4. Collaborations & Partnerships
We collaborate with our partner organizations to support the development of innovations and their adoption in the health system.
5. Market Entry, Adoption into Health System and Access
We facilitate market access through our partners around the world.
Our Portfolio
IHF supports the development and deployment of science and technology-led innovations which can make a significant difference in areas of: Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment Pathways and Surveillance of infectious diseases. Our focus is on technology-led platforms that can be applied across multiple diseases, ensuring scale and capital efficiency.
Our Impact
Our immediate impact is in facilitating capital and de-risking the development of solutions which can improve health outcomes in infectious diseases.
Our long-term impact is in the outcomes achieved through adoption of these solutions by the health system.
Tracking Innovations for Greater Impact
Since our inception, we have de-risked the development of over 14 innovations and our portfolio companies have contributed immensely in efforts to control and eliminate infectious diseases such as malaria and TB. Through rigorous investment and strategic guidance, India Health Fund has facilitated the development and deployment of their innovations in infectious diseases, moving them closer to the last mile. Many of these innovations are already touching lives.
Our Technology Readiness Level (TRL) Tracker Tool serves as a reminder to the progress achieved, and the path thatĀ liesĀ ahead.
Board Members
Burzis S Taraporevala
(Senior Advisor – Tata Trusts)
Manoj Kumar
(Founder And CEO – Social Alpha )
HSD Srinivas
(Head – Health, Tata Trusts)
Ashish Deshpande
(Secretary & Chief Financial
Officer, Tata Trusts)
Leadership Team
Madhav Joshi
(Chief Executive Officer)
Gurvinder B Parmar
(BOD – Strategy, Partnerships and Impact)
Raghavendra Rao
(Director- Portfolio)
Prajakta Ursekar
(Manager – HR)