Smart International Reform Action: The Health Impact Fund Global Health Speaker: Dr. Thomas Pogge Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University. Author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Wednesday, May 2nd 4:30-6:00 pm 041 Haldeman Center In 2008, Dr. Pogge co-authored The Health Impact Fund (HIF), which lays out the plan to make life-saving medicines accessible for everyone. HIF is envisioned as a new way of stimulating research and development of life-saving pharmaceuticals. Financed mainly by governments, the HIF would offer pharmaceutical firms the option to be rewarded according to a new product’s health impact, if they agree to sell it at cost.