02312nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260002300042653005700065653001800122653002300140100001300163700001500176700001400191700001700205700001900222245013900241856008700380490000700467520159500474022002502069       2022                            d  bInforma UK Limited10aPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10aHealth Policy10aHealth innovations1 aShahid M1 aFinnegan A1 aKilburn K1 aUdayakumar K1 aBaumgartner JN00aThe Health Innovation Impact Checklist: a tool to improve the development and reporting of impact models for global health innovations  uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/16549716.2022.2056312?needAccess=true0 v153 a<p>Donor financing is increasingly relying on performance-based measures that demonstrate impact. As new technologies and interventions enter the innovation space to address global health challenges, innovators often need to model their potential impact prior to obtaining solid effectiveness data. Diverse stakeholders rely on impact modeling data to make key funding and scaling decisions. With a lack of standardized methodology to model impact and various stakeholders using different modeling strategies, we propose that a universal innovation impact checklist be used to aid in transparent and aligned modeling efforts. This article describes a new Health Innovation Impact Checklist (HIIC) – a tool developed while evaluating the impact of health innovations funded under the Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) program. SL@B, a global health Grand Challenge initiative, funded 116 unique maternal and newborn health innovations, four of which were selected for cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) within our evaluation. A key data source needed to complete a CEA was the lives saved estimate. HIIC was developed to help validate draft impact models from the SL@B donors and our own team’s additional modeling efforts, to ensure the inclusion of standardized elements and to pressure test assumptions for modeling impact. This article describes the core components of HIIC including its strengths and limitations. It also serves as an open call for further reviewing and tailoring of this checklist for applicability across global efforts to model the impact of health innovations.</p>
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