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October 12, 2026
The Case for Scaling Fingerprick Blood Lead Testing
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August 18, 2026
AI Philanthropy Should Buy the Breakthroughs Markets Won’t
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July 10, 2026
Response to FDA RFI: Generic Drug Repurposing Incentive Program Proposal
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July 6, 2026
NeoTest: A $60 Million Proposal to Accelerate Neonatal Sepsis Diagnostics and Save Newborn Lives
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July 1, 2026
Getting the World Bank’s New At-Risk Financing Plans Across the Finish Line
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June 11, 2026
The Atlas of Innovation: A New Tool for Navigating the Innovation Funding Landscape
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May 7, 2026
A Prize for Repurposing Drugs for Neglected Diseases
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April 29, 2026
The Transformative Impact of a Rapid Diagnostic for Neonatal Sepsis
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April 16, 2026
The Case for Pull Funding at the National Institutes of Health
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April 2, 2026
From Deliberation to Design: NeoTest’s Second Working Group Meeting
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March 30, 2026
Radical Simplification: What Are the Implications for UK Aid?
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March 30, 2026
The G20 Should Pay for Results—Not Promises—to Spur Health and Climate Innovation
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January 21, 2026
Global buzzwords that will be buzzing in your ear in 2026
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January 5, 2026
Market Shaping Accelerator Announces New Home at the Center for Global Development and a New Phase of Work
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January 5, 2026
How Big Should a Pull Incentive Be? A New Pull Incentive Sizing Tool to Foster Innovation
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December 20, 2025
Are Thousands of Medical Cures Hiding in Plain Sight?
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August 27, 2025
How “Pull” Funding Can Supercharge MAHA’s Drug Repurposing Vision
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June 23, 2025
Why Expertise Matters: Building the Coalition to Launch Our Neonatal Sepsis AMC
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June 23, 2025
When Markets Fail Newborns: The Case for an Advance Market Commitment for Neonatal Sepsis Diagnostics
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June 23, 2025
The Case for Prioritizing Neonatal Sepsis Diagnostics
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June 13, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services: Don’t Put All Your Vaccine Shots in the Egg Basket
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May 14, 2025
MSA featured on Vox: How to save 400,000 babies a year
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May 12, 2025
The Promise of an Advance Market Commitment to Tackle Methane from Livestock
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April 29, 2025
Project Syndicate highlight: The Economics of Life-Saving Diagnostics
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March 31, 2025
AMCs: a great tool for the abundance agenda
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March 12, 2025
Unlocking Agricultural Innovation for Climate Action
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October 23, 2024
Five steps multilateral development banks can take now to unlock pandemic financing
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September 27, 2024
Investing in Vaccines to Mitigate Harm from COVID-19 and Future Pandemics
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September 20, 2024
A Shark Tank for Accelerating Innovation for Climate and Pandemic Preparedness
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September 12, 2024
Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond Covid Vaccines?
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September 10, 2024
Announcing winners of the inaugural MSA Innovation Challenge
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August 22, 2024
Transforming Pandemic Preparedness with Platform-Based Broad-Spectrum Antivirals
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August 13, 2024
Politico: Future in Five Questions with Christopher Snyder
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June 25, 2024
Exploring market shaping with Faculty Director Christopher Snyder: insights from the Pneumococcal AMC
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June 7, 2024
Market Shaping deep dive: Rachel Glennerster on the 80,000 Hours podcast
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June 3, 2024
Inter American Development Bank seminar on shaping markets to promote vaccine equity and address climate change
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May 13, 2024
MSA News: Rachel Glennerster appointed President of CGD
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May 7, 2024
A Closer Look at Innovation Challenge Phase II Ideas: Repurposing Generic Drugs
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April 25, 2024
Rachel Glennerster on how to ensure low- and middle-income countries can purchase medical countermeasures at-risk
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April 3, 2024
Faculty Director Chris Snyder and MSA Advisor Nan Ransohoff on the Dare to Green Podcast
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March 26, 2024
A Closer Look at Innovation Challenge Phase II Ideas: Germicidal Ultraviolet Light for Indoor Air Quality
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March 7, 2024
Quantifying the Social Value of a Universal COVID-19 Vaccine
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February 16, 2024
MSA featured in Luminary Lab’s reading list on pull mechanisms
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February 16, 2024
A Closer Look at Innovation Challenge Phase II Ideas: Decarbonizing Cooling
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February 8, 2024
MSA director Leah Rosenzweig: connecting research and policy to scale up impact
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January 16, 2024
A Closer Look at Innovation Challenge Phase II Ideas: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Diagnostics
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January 4, 2024
Support from Griffin Catalyst: Encouraging Market-Shaping Approaches to Global Problems
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January 3, 2024
Vaccines are available and could be widely distributed if governments paid for them
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November 30, 2023
Principles for using market shaping to combat climate change
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October 4, 2023
Making concrete changes: why the cement and concrete industry is ripe for market-shaping
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September 19, 2023
UChicago’s Market Shaping Accelerator Awards 39 Innovation Prizes in the First Round of the $2M Competition
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September 7, 2023
Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner – new piece in Works in Progress!
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August 28, 2023
Faculty Director Christopher Snyder discusses “The Frontier of Scientific Plausibility”
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August 16, 2023
Creating demand for clean hydrogen
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August 11, 2023
MSA responds to BARDA’s Request For Information (RFI) on market shaping for next generation vaccines
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June 17, 2023
How the Government Can Pay for a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine
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May 25, 2023
University of Chicago’s Market Shaping Accelerator Launches $2 Million Innovation Challenge
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May 17, 2023
Crain’s Chicago Business: Ken Griffin, Ex-Google CEO Back UChicago Accelerator with Lofty Goals
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May 4, 2023
The University of Chicago Launches Market Shaping Accelerator to Address Global Challenges
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March 7, 2023
Project Syndicate Cites Work from UChicago’s Market Shaping Accelerator
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March 7, 2023
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs MSA research on incentivizing innovation
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October 18, 2022
Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Advance Preparations for Future Pandemics
