Innovation, Health, and the Future of Scientific Cooperation for Global Development - Saran Fadiga Branchi
🌐 Ox1 Incubator | MedTech & BioTech Track Launch Event
Theme: Innovation, Health, and the Future of Scientific Cooperation for Global Development
Date: Friday, 14 November
Time: 5:00–7:00 pm
Venue: Christ Church College (Networking drinks to follow)
Ox1 Incubator is pleased to invite you to the official launch of its MedTech & BioTech Track - an initiative designed to support emerging founders, researchers, and innovators shaping the next generation of health technologies.
The event will feature insights from Saran Fadiga Branchi, Senior Fund Manager at The Global Fund (Geneva), a major international financing institution supporting innovation, healthcare delivery, and disease prevention worldwide. With extensive experience leading medtech innovation across Africa and advising governments on multilateral health partnerships, Saran brings a unique perspective on how scientific cooperation and innovation ecosystems can drive global development.
Programme
Opening keynote
Fireside chat & Audience Q&A
Networking drinks & conversations at Christ Church College
Open to all OX1 Incubator tracks and members of the University of Oxford.
Join us for an evening of thought-provoking discussion, knowledge exchange, and community-building as we launch this new track within the Ox1 Incubator.
Event Abstract:
This session examines how health innovation emerges and succeeds when it is grounded in the lived realities of care. Drawing on fifteen years of experience in global health, including a decade across West and Central Africa, Saran Fadiga-Branchi explores how community-anchored approaches, local leadership, and system-level investment are reshaping Africa’s contribution to the global health innovation landscape. She is joined by Dr. Florent Diby, pediatrician and cardiologist with the Wake-Up Africa NGO, whose work expands access to specialist care through telemedicine and clinical capacity-building in Côte d’Ivoire. Together, they consider how African health systems are generating innovation models that are scalable, resilient, and capable of influencing global health practice and policy.