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For a long time, efforts to scale health innovations have largely followed a supply-driven model (“push”). Innovators develop products, technologies, or approaches and then seek opportunities for governments to adopt them. While this model has produced important successes, it has also contributed to a proliferation of pilots that struggle to achieve sustainable scale within public systems. The Public Sector Scaling (PSS) experience from Kenya's Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB

When you tour most newborn units (NBUs) across Kenyan hospitals, you stumble upon the realities of service delivery which are not defined by any lack of commitment from healthcare workers, but by the immense pressure placed on already stretched health systems. Kenya continues to face significant shortages in specialized maternal and newborn healthcare workers, particularly nurses supporting neonatal and high-dependency newborn care. According to the World Health Organization,

Poor maternal outcomes continue to be unacceptably high in the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) and nationally. The maternal mortality ratio is approximately 355 deaths per 100,000 live births nationally, largely due to preventable causes including late referrals and delays in detecting life threatening conditions during pregnancy. Appropriate and well targeted Health Innovations present cost effective and efficient ways of combating the poor maternal and newborn outcomes tha

Through the Public Sector Scaling (PSS) partnership with the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB), Insight Health Advisors is supporting counties to integrate high-impact health innovations into routine public sector service delivery using the Mountain Model (MM) Framework. Neoguard training Bungoma Mother and Child Centre This approach focuses on putting county governments in the driving seat of clarifying their priority needs (innovation demand articulation), identifying proven

Despite many initiatives in Kenya, maternal and newborn mortality remain unacceptably high at 355 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and a neonatal mortality rate of 21 per 1,000 live births (Kenya Demographic and Health Survey [KDHS], 2022). Thus, about 15, mostly young women, die daily due to pregnancy related causes, that are largely preventable.

Last week, our team supported Migori County in preparing for the rollout of Neoguard , Neopenda’s neonatal monitoring solution, as part of the county’s wider commitment to adopt and scale high-impact health innovations. NeoGuard is among the county’s prioritized health innovations for immediate adoption due to its potential contribution to the projected neonatal outcomes. With a focus on facility-level integration readiness, a practical-oriented training led by Neopenda was h

The Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) in partnership with Insight Health Advisors (IHA) and Maseno University hosted the second health innovation fair on the 28th of May 2025 at Maseno University, Siriba Campus. This landmark event, themed “Improving and Saving Lives through Scalable Health Innovations.” Aimed to support identification and selection of transformative health innovations aligned with the LREB Counties Health priority needs. These health needs (demands) were iden