Fund with Precision
Join us in building the intelligence infrastructure global health has always needed
Philanthropic Funders and Donors
See the system. Fund what works.
Every year, global health donors fund dozens of market intelligence exercises — commissioned from consultancies and NGOs alike — one product, a handful of countries, a fixed time window. When the project ends, the data disappears and the next initiative starts from scratch. The cumulative investment is enormous. The cumulative shared asset is nearly zero.
Worse, these analyses are structurally less accurate — not just because the data is siloed, but because the models are rarely fit for purpose. Reducing maternal mortality requires improving women's education levels, increasing antenatal care attendance, and expanding oxytocin availability — in a specific sequence, weighted differently in every market. Single-product, single-country regression models are blind to these interactions by design. The result is a laundry list of interventions that work somewhere in the literature, with no guidance on what to prioritize in your market, with your budget, in the next five years.
Merlyn changes that equation permanently.
What you can do with Merlyn:
Fund with precision — our causal models identify the specific combination of interventions that will move the needle most on the outcomes you care about, weighted for country context and constrained by what is realistically achievable
Hold implementers accountable — define measurable population-level targets upfront and track progress against them, rather than measuring outputs that may have no bearing on health outcomes
Eliminate duplicated investment — stop funding the same data collection exercise repeatedly across siloed programs; Merlyn turns one-off analyses into compounding shared infrastructure
See across disease areas — understand how your investments in education, health system strengthening, and commodity access interact, rather than evaluating each program in isolation
Why funding Merlyn is your highest-leverage investment:
The analyses above are only possible because Merlyn exists as shared infrastructure — built once, available to every actor in the system, getting more accurate and more valuable with every new data partnership. Every dollar you invest in Merlyn compounds across every health program you fund, every government you support, and every manufacturer you encourage to enter LMIC markets. You are not funding another project. You are funding the foundation that makes every project work better.
This is not another project to fund. It is the infrastructure that makes every project work better.
