HEALTH EQUITY INNOVATION FUND LEARNINGS & IMPACT
The Health Equity Innovation Fund prioritizes funding bold ideas that have the potential to root out inequities in patient outcomes. Through the 2024 Innovation Fund, Genentech will reach nearly $50M invested in 100+ healthcare organizations and leaders unified by a vision to eliminate health inequities for good.
In a survey of grantees, a majority said the Innovation Fund enabled transformative work that drives progress toward health equity and elevates them within their fields of study. Additional survey findings include:
Innovation Fund teams are focused on both driving and scaling their impact. Some of the critical lessons learned from this groundbreaking work include:
Long-term, transformative progress requires investments that target individual, institutional and systems-level change
Community engagement and co-creation with patients, students and caregivers has an outsized impact on addressing healthcare disparities, but remains massively under-resourced
Effective community engagement requires trust, time, flexibility, partners skilled in listening and sustained investment beyond the project scope
Shifting Power To Patients And Unlocking Innovation In Healthcare Delivery
Building A Clinical Trial Movement For Black Women, By Black Women
TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance launched the groundbreaking When We Tri(al) initiative, which is activating a joyful, energized community to overcome Black women’s justifiable mistrust of clinical research.
Changemaker Reflections: Hear More From Touch Co-founder & CEO Ricki Fairley
Advancing Health Equity Through Empathy And Experiential Learning
Equify Health is disrupting how medical providers deliver care using transformative approaches centered on the humanity of patients as people, as opposed to their diagnoses.
Changemaker Reflections: Hear More From Equify Founder & CEO Sylvie Leotin
Redesigning Inclusive Research With Community Partners
Henry Ford Health (HFH) launched the Participatory Action for Access to Clinical Trials (PAACT) project to increase Black/African American clinical trial participation by partnering with community groups.
Changemaker Reflections: Hear More From Paact Principal Investigator Dr. Evelyn JiaggeNews & Stories
See recent news coverage of our Innovation Fund grantees and explore other stories about Genentech’s work to improve health equity.
Grants To Spark Systemic Change With Communities of Color
Learn how we are supporting solutions to address health and education inequities driven by systemic racism.
Health Inequities are the Symptoms, Racism is the Disease
Addressing systemic health inequities requires facing their root cause: racism.
Giving for a More Just Healthcare System
How charitable giving can help remedy inequities in our industry and society.
Diversity & Inclusion
The CHJF grantees are reshaping what it means to be healthy, shifting policies and advocating for investments that support healthier futures for generations to come.
Our 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Report
Learn more about our 2025 D&I Commitments and our progress towards achieving them.
Asking Bigger Questions to Make Health Equity a Reality
Meet Genentech changemakers who are challenging the status quo of inequities in healthcare.
Biomarker Testing
Personalized cancer care: Closing the gaps in biomarker testing
See why lack of biomarker testing is viewed as one of oncology’s most urgent challenges