USAID Emerging Health Threats Division, Innovations (Biomed)

In partnership with USAID, Project Last Mile is seeking to identify enterprises who demonstrate a proven or promising innovation to address emerging disease prevention and/or control, are poised for growth, and would benefit from Project Last Mile’s technical assistance.

Each enterprise will be matched with a PLM Subject Matter Expert (SME) and will gain one-on-one technical advice, coaching, and mentoring support to design a solution to a key business challenge being faced by the enterprise. Enterprises may also be eligible for up to a maximum of US$200,000 in grant funding, in addition to separate technical assistance.

To support USAID Global Health Security (GHS) objectives, this program will aim to identify and strengthen market entry and scale-up of health innovations that can strengthen prevention, detection, and/or response for infectious disease threats around the world.

Solutions should focus on late-stage development of a small form factor biomedical technology and support the following GHS Program objectives:

• Reduced spillover of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in humans or animals from
  which zoonotic pathogens spillover;
• Improved detection and/or identification of potential or real pathogens associated with
  EIDs; and/or
• Improved understanding of the epidemiology of EIDs among humans, animals, insects,
  and/or the environment.

Solutions may include any new / emerging technologies, products, processes, or approaches  that can support the key program objectives outlined below:

1. Prevent disease outbreaks
2. Detect threats early
3. Respond rapidly and effectively when outbreaks occur