Ideas Make Impact
We elevate global leaders who are catalyzing equitable transformations in health and development.
Creating an Inclusive Future: McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Awardees Shifting Paradigms from the Ground Up Part 1
Our society’s methods of distributing resources and solving collective problems are shaped by our thinking and assumptions about the world. How do we, as leaders, break through old assumptions and patterns to help make new…
Creating an Inclusive Future: McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Awardees Shifting Paradigms from the Ground Up Part II
Our society’s methods of distributing resources and solving collective problems are shaped by our thinking and assumptions about the world. How do we, as leaders, break through old assumptions and patterns to help make new…
The Aspen Global Innovators Promise
For over 30 years, the Aspen Global Innovators Group has empowered health and development leaders from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Island States to build a safe, sustainable and healthier future for all people and communities. The impact of our Fellows reverberates across the globe.
Our mission is to empower visionary leaders and innovators who are working to build a more equitable society. Our global community stands tall with local leaders, collaborators, healers and fellows who have long been beacons in this movement and whose voices and work are critical to reshaping a healthy, equitable future for all. We are committed to amplifying the voices and impact of those who are leading this work.
1.2B
Individuals aided
through Fellow-led direct service care and policy initiatives
$100M
committed
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55
Countries
where AGI Fellows and programs work and operate
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and Management Partners
15.6M
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through Fellow publications and speaking engagements
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Catalyzing locally-rooted, globally networked leaders to become visible, effective advocates to champion more equitable development systems.
Supporting BIPOC local leaders who are spearheading community initiatives that address health inequities
Building Robust, Equitable and Coordinated Community Health Systems
By creating a forum to share knowledge and experience, Aspen Ideas: Health offers a unique opportunity to turn ideas into action and carve pathways toward better health for all.
Supporting governments to build visionary and effective teams.
Our Fellows
Metsehate Ayenekulu
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Ethiopia
Metsehate is a public health and gender expert who leads a program that teaches teenage brides about family planning. Her interest is in adolescent and…
Alana Peterson
Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship AR, United States
Alana Peterson, Executive Director of Spruce Root, is an entrepreneur and non-profit leader whose lived experience brings together indigenous values with Western economic systems to build towards…
Ghada Jabbour
Gender Lebanon
Ghada founded and currently leads the anti-trafficking division at Kafa, an advocacy group dedicated to combating gender- and sexual-based violence in Lebanon. She works on…
Sathya Ragu
Food Security India
Sathya Raghu is the Co-founder and President at Cosmos Green & Kheyti, organizations with small farmer focus that he set up after quitting his corporate…
Minda Dentler
Health India
Minda was born in India and contracted polio as an infant, leaving her legs paralyzed. When she was three, Minda was adopted by an American…
Rene Sparks
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights South Africa
Rene Sparks is a public health practitioner with a foundation in nursing and Senior Atlantic Fellow at Tekano – Health Equity South Africa. She has…
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The Aspen Global Innovators Group supports two flagship fellowship programs. These fellowships enable leaders to amplify their voices, visibility and impact. Leaders bring expertise from all sectors and include entrepreneurs, community organizers and local experts who are both proximate to the greatest health and development challenges of our time and also bring lived and learned experience to their solutions.
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Our fellows and community partners are committed to advance the discourse and impact of global health and development innovations by creating knowledge products. The knowledge hub is a resource for all who are dedicated to learning from and collaborating with this dynamic community!