India Health Fund

Set up by Tata Trusts in 2017, India Health Fund is a not-for-profit company which funds and de-risks the development of science and technology-based innovations for communicable diseases, develops partnerships in India and other developing countries to scale these solutions and collaborates to develop financing mechanisms for their development and scale. IHF has a particular focus on providing grants as patient capital to start-ups, small and medium sized companies for the development and validation of prototype-ready innovations which align with national priorities and has a particular focus on affordable solutions for primary care. This funding bridges a critical funding gap (the “valley of death”) which has limited the development and adoption of these solutions and serves as a catalyst for further funding and collaborations to help them scale in India and other LMICs.

IHF has established itself as the only dedicated source of funding for innovation in infectious diseases in India and is one of the few funding organizations in the world with a singular focus on infectious diseases. IHF has recently announced India’s first pooled fund for cutting edge innovations in diagnostics and digital tools in infectious diseases with BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.