The Four Pillars of our Approach

Action

We provide services and support that build public health entrepreneurs through our various programs. With the proper support system in place, ventures fine-tune their strategies for introducing and scaling their solutions in the marketplace.

Network

With a vast international network of entrepreneurs, investors, and public health professionals, we provide personalized and multidisciplinary advising and mentoring to meet the needs of each venture at every stage of development.

Education

Entrepreneurship education is a new and exciting direction for public health. Increasingly, public health students want to generate sustainable social impact and move from discussing problems to generating and implementing solutions.

Strategic Science

Based at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, Firefly Innovations provides strategic science capabilities and expertise to support ventures in both R&D and assessment of public health impact.

Our Values:

Diversity

Bringing public health innovation to the communities that need it most

Sustainability

Shaping more robust, resilient, and equitable public health systems

Universality

Forging partnerships across disciplines and borders to create scalable, science-backed public health strategies