As a publicly accessible global knowledge platform consisting of a network of partners that collect, analyze, and disseminate information about Health Market Innovations in developing countries, the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) website facilitates the exchange of knowledge and the creation of strategic linkages among key stakeholders.

This new website was built to enable researchers, policy makers, implementers and funders to filter though a vast number of programs based on a wide variety of characteristics, including program type, health focus, country of operation and target population, among others. There are currently 361 programs profiled in the database across 96 countries, with another 126 programs in the pipeline.

In addition to providing access to a wealth of interactive, comparable, and filterable information on health market programs, users can update existing program profiles and suggest new programs for the database. CHMI also offers a funders database which provides information about donors and investors that fund organizations, programs, and enterprises working to improve health care for the poor in the developing world.

"Our goal at CHMI is to work with our many partners to better understand what can be done to improve health markets," said Gina Lagomarsino, R4D Managing Director and lead on the CHMI initiative.  "We will identify and track promising programs around the world. We will analyze this information and evaluate programs to try to figure out what is working…and what is not working. And we will create better linkages among program implementers, funders, researchers, and policymakers—whose efforts will be crucial to facilitating improvements in health markets."

Watch the web tutorial to learn more about the features of the CHMI website, or visit our website at http://healthmarketinnovations.org.

The CHMI initiative is managed by the Results for Development Institute in collaboration with a global network of partners. CHMI was established with seed funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.