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Racial Inequities in Healthcare: Why It Matters & What We Can Do About It
It should come as no surprise that health outcomes, and the healthcare systems that determine them, are disparate across geographies, socioeconomic status, and, in particular, racial and ethnic backgrounds. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has only strengthened the need to improve healthcare solutions that emphasize racial equity and access without hurting patients’ wallets through exorbitant fees.
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Design and Investment Equity in Health Innovation: Takeaways from Aspen Ideas: Health
Social innovation in healthcare is at a precipice. Can it rise to the challenge of meaningfully improving health systems and furthering health equity?
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How to Set Social Impact Targets in an Uncertain World
For J&J Impact Ventures, a social impact target can’t encompass all the dimensions of impact, but it does need to go beyond funds committed or disbursed and towards giving an indication of real-world change.
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Cerebra Wins JJIV Pitch Battle
The social, economic, and political diversity across countries in Southeast Asia can create hurdles for health systems. As such, securing funding has proven to be challenging for entrepreneurs and startups that are tackling the need for easily accessible and affordable healthcare solutions.
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Disrupting Healthcare in Southeast Asia
Takeaways from an online forum co-hosted by J&J Impact Ventures and Tech In Asia
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Innovator, Advocate, Fellow: Meet the Emerging Champions of Health
Entrepreneurs and development professionals can be powerful champions of better healthcare. With the right resources, support and training, their efficacy as advocates could be exponential.
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SwipeRx Secures US$27 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Growth Across Southeast Asia
The Series B round is led by Indonesia’s MDI Ventures with participation from global investors, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and existing investors Fresh funds to be deployed towards scaling network of pharmacies, expanding logistics network for B2B e-commerce, accelerating technological innovation and recruiting talent across the region Wide network of over 235,000 pharmacy professionals and 45,000 pharmacies from Southeast Asia currently on the SwipeRx platform
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Applications Open for New Health Equity Startup Accelerator
Village Capital is seeking to support startups committed to reducing healthcare disparities in the US
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Supporting HealthQuad to Scale Impact in India and Beyond
Investing in HealthQuad opens new doors for J&J Impact Ventures to play a larger role in supporting health innovation in India because of the vast need and great potential.
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Message from Alice Lin Fabiano
April 2022 Newsletter
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More Than Direct Investment: How Collaboration Between Investors Can Create an Environment for Health Innovators to Thrive
Of the $715 billion global impact investing market, corporate impact investors in innovation manage more than $7.2 billion in committed capital, an amount that has been increasing at a 54% compounded annual rate since 2016, according to this Stanford Social Innovation Review article. However, only 7% of the total impact investing assets under management focus on improving health, not nearly the capital needed to solve the many critical public health challenges facing our world today. Impact investors not engaged in global health have cited the unique and high risks in health innovation (that an investment may not provide returns quickly or at all) and the specific expertise required to help health start-ups scale and maximize impact.
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Why Kenyan Nonprofit Jacaranda Health Spun Out Its Hospital as a Social Venture
As a standalone social venture, Jacaranda Maternity was able to break even and now has two busy hospitals and opening a third to help tens of thousands of women across Kenya through their pregnancies.
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How Borderless Mentorship Helped South Lake Medical Centre Bloom
The partnership with SLMC shines light on another aspect of J&J Impact Ventures’ offerings: J&J employees as mentors, who engage directly with staff on strategy and other aspects of the work to accelerate progress.
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Investing in the Future of Women and Children Worldwide
Investing in Cross-Border Impact Ventures, a women-run fund, furthers J&J Impact Ventures’ mission to invest in tech-forward solutions centered around representation, diversity and equity.
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Meet the Graduates: Stories from DANAdidik Loan Recipients
Together, nurses and midwives make up half of the global health workforce, but far more nurses and midwives are needed to address the current and growing needs. Latest projections from the World Health Organization estimate that the world will need an additional 9 million nurses and midwives by 2030 to reach Sustainable Development Goals.
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Q&A with NextStep’s Chris Hedrick on Building the Health Workforce
The compounding factors of the COVID-19 pandemic and an aging population have placed an unprecedented level of pressure on our health workforce, putting Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in high demand in the United States. Not only are CNAs highly sought-after amid a caregiver shortage, but this role also serves as a critical entrance into the health workforce. An effective springboard, many workers advance from CNA to Registered Nurse as they grow a fulfilling career in health.
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Learning from Lived Experience with Village Capital, Health In Her HUE and Clinify
In every corner of the globe, entrepreneurs are building innovative solutions to address the most pressing health challenges. Yet, the early-stage investment ecosystem tends to consolidate venture capital among a chosen few people and places. In the US, less than 2% goes to Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, and more than 75% of global venture capital goes to only three U.S. states. Village Capital’s mission—to make impact investing more inclusive by supporting entrepreneurs who have largely been overlooked and systemically excluded from early-stage investing—
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Nurturing Health Innovation Worldwide
With health technology investing at an all-time high, a key question must guide the support of critical new health innovations: How do we uplift entrepreneurs who are addressing society’s toughest challenges in high-need communities?
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Putting People First in the Digital Health Revolution
A digital health revolution is transforming healthcare with the promise of expanding health access for all. The market is massive: global digital health was worth an estimated $181 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow 16.5 percent each year through 2027.
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Nurturing Local Health Startups in the Communities that Need Them Most
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed fragile healthcare systems and exposed and exacerbated social and racial health inequalities around the world. This challenging moment demands that we reimagine newly resilient health systems equipped to replace acute crisis response with preparedness, prevention, and community building.
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Building the Case for Greater Investment in Health
Did you know that only 7% of the investments made within the $715 billion global impact investing market go toward health? Learn how Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures is leading the way on smart investments in inclusive innovation at the front lines of care to help improve the lives of billions of people around the world.
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Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Johnson & Johnson’s Alice Lin Fabiano Is Helping To Change Our World
"Be unapologetically yourself. We are often told to fit in, but I learned the freedom of embracing my own individuality over time. As a female and an Asian, we are the least likely to be promoted to the management level, and because of that, we try to mold ourselves into something to reach that goal, often at the expense of being our own unique selves."
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Impact Investing to Support Health Equity
In 2020, the collision of twin pandemics – systemic racism and COVID-19 – cast a spotlight on deep fractures in our society. In particular, these combined forces made the fight for racial health equity, especially in the United States, more urgent than ever before.
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Investing in Caregivers to Fill Gaps in Long-Term Care
When frontline health care workers are mentioned in the media today, it’s often in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. From burnout to vaccine hesitancy, the list of challenges faced by long-term-care providers has expanded exponentially in the last two years.
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J&J Impact Ventures Commits $50 Million to Support Health Impact Entrepreneurs
Johnson & Johnson launched J&J Impact Ventures in 2019 with a mission to invest our time, expertise, and capital in entrepreneurs who share our mission of improving health for everyone, everywhere.
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Health: The Next Frontier for Impact Investing
Health-related impact investments remain limited, even as the field now totals a $715 billion global market. Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures is investing in purpose-driven entrepreneurs and their startups in the belief that as their businesses grow, so will their impact.
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How the Telehealth Trend Is Revolutionizing Medical Care As We Know It
From backing an app that connects Black women to caregivers of color to developing a digital platform that supports surgical recovery, Johnson & Johnson is helping drive the surge of innovation in telemedicine.
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Meet the two picks from J&J and Village Capital’s culturally competent care accelerator
Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures and Village Capital launched their first accelerator focused on culturally competent care this summer. Two startups were each awarded $100,000: Omaiven Health and Lucia Health Guidelines.
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Why Entrepreneurs are a Valuable Asset to Achieve Health Equity
If there’s one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear, it’s that a person’s race, zip code and ethnicity can pre-determine what kind of health care they receive. However, for those of us who come from diverse backgrounds, this is a very well-known and lived reality. Like many first-generation Chinese immigrant children, I grew up helping my elders navigate a healthcare system that too often did not consider or respect differences in languages, culture, or medical beliefs. As I experienced firsthand, it is incredibly difficult to first navigate, and then trust the providers who were unaware of how to address cultural differences.
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J&J, Village Capital unveil 12 startups building culturally competent care in new accelerator
The companies are supporting 12 culturally competent healthcare startups in a new accelerator. Two of them will get up to $200,000 in grant funding.
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