Articles | Innovations in Healthcare

October 02, 2026

The New “LLMs”: How Long-Lasting Mechanisms for Decision-making Can Turn AI Investment into Lasting Impact

AI is attracting new attention—and significant new investments—across global health. That momentum creates real opportunity, but technology alone will not improve health outcomes. Introduced without trusted institutions, sound policy, usable evidence, sustainable financing, and the capacity to integrate new tools into existing services, AI can deepen fragmentation and widen disparities rather than solve them. The article argues that countries need more than funding for a growing menu of AI applications. They need durable, country-owned mechanisms to compare those tools with one another and with other health priorities, decide what to introduce and when, and determine how promising approaches can be financed and sustained. AI can strengthen public judgment by making evidence and tradeoffs more visible; it cannot replace the people and institutions accountable for making those choices.

September 17, 2026

A Decade of Progress: Marking Ten Years of Catalytic Funding for Innovations (Webinar)

On September 17, 2026 we hosted a webinar to mark a decade behind us and many more to go. Innovations in Healthcare, The Pfizer Foundation, and innovators around the world gathered for a webinar reflecting on what we’ve learned and what’s ahead in the world of global health catalytic funding. A report on our decade of work informed our discussion, as did two case studies from grantees' work in Kenya and Haiti. We look forward to seeing you there. Let’s inspire ongoing innovation and future collaborations in global health.