Firefly Innovations

Public Health is Good Business

Firefly Innovations is the premier public health entrepreneurship platform based at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. We’re a global community of several thousand entrepreneurs, academics, innovators and investors who’re working to develop, fund and scale solutions to the most pressing public health challenges.

We face complex, widespread and growing public health challenges.

The significant and compounding impacts of public health challenges on communities nationally and globally highlight the urgent need for more forward-thinking, equitable and scalable solutions.

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Scaling public health solutions requires an entrepreneurial approach to optimize market traction and viability.

To create a healthier, sustainable and more equitable world, we need to be bold, we need to think big and we need to take action. We need public health entrepreneurship.

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Call to Action

Are you an entrepreneur working on a breakthrough solution that could help solve a public health challenge? Are you an investor looking to partner with public health experts and founders to amplify your impact?

Firefly is here to help.

Our programs provide entrepreneurs with mentorship, education, exposure and opportunities to forge partnerships. We also connect entrepreneurs and investors to bring solutions to the market and scale up their impact.

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Message from our Founder

”We launched Firefly Innovations to help entrepreneurs, academics, innovators and investors harness the tools, resources, networks and expertise needed to create, implement, and scale robust, impactful and equitable public health solutions. The complex challenges we face today—ranging from chronic diseases to health inequities—cannot be solved by any single solution or individual effort. It takes a community, a collective and united front, to bring about real, sustainable change.”

**Dr. Terry Huang**
Founder of Firefly Innovations

Message from our Director

“Although we experienced record growth this year, the number of innovators seeking assistance exceeded our capacity. Even with a 190% increase in entrepreneurs supported, we could only provide direct assistance to less than 8% of applicants. Last year, we committed to expand access to our platform. Today, we're delivering on that commitment with the launch of our Firefly Collective platform, which bridges this gap — offering more access, resources and opportunities to our entire global network of public health innovators.”