Over the course of two years (2019-2021), the Patient Multimedia Engagement (PME) project led by Anne Jansen, funded by MSF’s Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) and supported by the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit (SIU), has explored how MSF operations can interact with communities through digital and social media.

This edition spotlights operationalisation’s central role in the health innovation space and provides a glimpse into how MSF is working to embed a culture of innovation and demystify the process of implementing and scaling innovative solutions.

Catalysed by the current pandemic, telehealth is being increasingly recognized as one such support method to help expand access to, and delivery of, healthcare and health information. In September 2020, a rapid review of MSF activities as a part of the research for the MSF Telehealth Toolkit identified there were over 20 telehealth initiatives of different forms identified across the MSF movement.

The first MSF Innovation newsletter of 2021. In this issue we explore the importance of organisational memory and methods to disseminate learnings in MSF. The newsletter also provides an insight into the MSF priority of planetary health and shares a number of resources relevant to safe and imaginative global health innovation.

This highlevel 2020 round-up provides an overview of key activities and learnings from a wide range of MSF innovation teams.

The intertwined crises of climate change, environmental degradation and COVID-19 have increased humanitarian needs and vulnerabilities. in the first of the SIU Planetary health blog series of 2021, we provide a snapshot of activity currently underway. More deep-dives incoming soon!