Global Health Impact Investment Ecosystem

Dr. Lisa McDonald is a physician entrepreneur whose work focuses on innovation ecosystem development, technology commercialization, and global health impact investment. She is President of the Global Health Security Fund, a Geneva-based nonprofit that supports impact investment in health security innovations with a focus on the Global South. She is Co-Founder of PandemicTech, an Austin-based venture philanthropy, and Founder of the Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium. Lisa previously served as Director of Healthcare at Austin Technology Incubator. She is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine (MD) and the University of Texas at Austin (MSTC, BS).

Deep experience in strategy, investments, and impact across commercial and social sectors. Raphael focuses on Innovative Finance at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Nadya Wells is an experienced finance and investment professional whose passion is building bridges to facilitate increased financing for global health. In recent years, she has worked on strategy for a donor government moving into NCD programs, research with WHO on banking for health (ESG+H), community based health financing with field work in Tajikistan, and new business models for financing NTD R&D for a major pharmaceutical firm.

Ty Greene has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of social impact and community engagement. Before joining the World Economic Forum he spent six years advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in sport at the Canadian Olympic Committee and the international NGO Right To Play. Ty joined the World Economic Forum in 2019, overseeing work on business and human rights and institutional partnerships with civil-society organisations. Since 2022 he has led the Forum’s Global Health Equity Network, advancing health-equity investment and action across industries.