Speakers
Major General (Ret.) Dr. Paul Friedrichs, Director, Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response, The White House
Rachel Glennerster, President, CGD
Dr. Javier Guzman, Director, Global Health Policy Program and Senior Policy Fellow, CGD
Dr. Charles Kenny, Senior Fellow, CGD
Michael Kremer, Economics Nobel Laureate, 2019, University Professor in Economics, University of Chicago and Faculty Director of the Market Shaping Accelerator
Dr. Stephanie Psaki, U.S. Coordinator for Global Health Security, The White House
Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate, Stripe
Christopher Snyder, Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics, Dartmouth, Faculty Director, UChicago Market Shaping Accelerator
Co-hosted by CGD and the University of Chicago's Market Shaping Accelerator
Threats to the global community—such as climate change and pandemics—demand urgent innovation and action at scale. But when commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur the development and adoption of new innovations. CGD and MSA are excited to launch their joint initiative to design and scale market-shaping mechanisms to address the world's most pressing problems.
This event also marks the culmination of MSA’s year-long open innovation competition. Teams from around the world competed to develop promising applications of market shaping pull mechanisms to reduce harm from pandemics and improve global health. In the afternoon, the three finalist teams will present their proposals to a panel of expert judges with up to $600,000 in prizes to be distributed on the day.
In-person attendance to this event is on an invite-only basis. If you are interested in attending in person in Washington, DC, please email [email protected].
Schedule
9:15am ET | Welcome and Announcement of Joint Initiative, by Rachel Glennerster, President, CGD
9:30am ET | The Economics of Innovation by Michael Kremer, Economics Nobel Laureate, 2019, University Professor in Economics, University of Chicago and Faculty Director of the Market Shaping Accelerator
9:55am ET | Market Shaping for Innovation in Pandemic Preparedness
- Major General (Ret.) Dr. Paul Friedrichs, Director, Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response, The White House
- Javier Guzman, Director, Global Health Policy Program and Senior Policy Fellow, CGD
10:40am ET | Break
11:10am ET | Market Shaping for Innovation in Climate Change
- Rachel Glennerster, President, CGD
- Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate, Stripe
- Charles Kenny, Senior Fellow, CGD (moderator)
12pm ET | Lunch break
1:30pm ET | Innovation in Global Health Security and Biodefense by Dr. Stephanie Psaki, U.S. Coordinator for Global Health Security, The White House
1:50pm ET | Introducing the Innovation Challenge by Chris Snyder, Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics, Dartmouth, Faculty Director, UChicago Market Shaping Accelerator
2:00pm ET | Market Shaping Innovation Challenge Pitch 1
- Jano Costard, SPRIND: An AMC to accelerate development of broad-spectrum antivirals that could halt the next pandemics
2:30pm ET | Break
3:00pm ET | Market Shaping Innovation Challenge Pitch 2 & 3
- Akhil Bansal, AMR Funding Circle: An AMC for diagnostics to reduce deaths from neonatal sepsis and combat antimicrobial resistance
- Beth Boyer, Duke Margolis: Finding life-saving new uses of generic drugs
Judges
Norma Altshuler, Senior Program Officer, Open Philanthropy
Elizabeth Cameron, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
Alex Cohen, Principal Researcher, GiveWell
Kumar Garg, President, Renaissance Philanthropy
Sandeep Patel, CEO, Betting Big on Human Health
Claire Qureshi, CEO, Sentinel Bio
Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate, Stripe
