Health is centrally placed within the 2030 agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as was unanimously agreed by all the UN member states in the year 2015. The inclusion of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a cross-cutting and unifying objective within the SDGs presented an opportunity to promote a comprehensive and coherent approach that can spearhead gains across the health landscape, ensuring security, equity and wellbeing.

In order to achieve the ambitious health targets within the context of apparent widespread disparities across countries, regions and settings, a need to bridge the gap in access to good health and reaching the SDGs calls for rethinking on strategies so as to counter emerging challenges posed by demographic, socio economic and environmental factors.

The mission of Health innovations Exchange is to support countries, particularly in the Global South, to implement and leverage innovations for health in a cross-sectoral manner to fast-track progress towards the SDGs and to enable people to live healthier lives. 

In order to bridge this gap and crystallize the innovative initiatives towards health, the Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx) identifies critical pain points in health responses of countries and connects the implementers to innovative new solutions and technologies. The HIEx, as a global entity, also connects funders and investors to innovators, thereby synergizing innovations with investments to ensure implementation of new solutions on scale for sustainable impact on journey towards the SDG3 goals.