BIRAC-India Health Fund Co-Funding Opportunity for Infectious Diseases & Digital Health

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) and India Health Fund, a Tata Trusts initiative have created India’s first public-private partnership fund which will finance the development of diagnostics and digital tools to tackle infectious diseases relevant for India and other developing countries, towards bettering equity and access to healthcare.

Call under i4 through SBIRI and BIPP provides an opportunity to Startups/Companies/SMEs working in following areas to avail Co-funding under BIRAC-IHF pool of funds:

• Tuberculosis – Screening and Diagnostics tools that are easily deployable tests meeting ASSURED criteria for resource-limited settings for identification of susceptible, vulnerable and high-risk populations and disease detection at the community and/or primary healthcare level.
• Vector-Borne Diseases – Multiplex, modular, multi-pathogen disease detection platform/ systems for use at the primary and secondary level that reliably distinguish and detect infections from clinical specimens.
• Disease Surveillance (Digital Platform Technologies): Robust disease surveillance platforms for collecting, managing, and streamlining surveillance of infectious diseases.
• Anti microbial resistance: Near-patient detection tools for neonatal sepsis, UTI or community spread infections or tuberculosis-multidrug resistance.
• Climate X Health – Climate adaptive healthcare solutions addressing infectious diseases

Selected Startups/Companies will be jointly funded by IHF and BIRAC in alignment with the guidelines of i4 scheme. Basis the requirement, co-funded startups may also be provided with incubation and validation support, commercial guidance and mentorship support through the partner network.

For more  information, visit BIRAC.