IDIA and the WHO announce strategic collaboration to support the scale-up of health innovations IDIA and the WHO announce strategic collaboration to support the scale-up of health innovations 26 January 2021 Reading time: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) today signed a strategic Collaborative Agreement to support the scaling of health innovations. The collaboration will see the two entities work together in support of a shared agenda to promote and facilitate the demand, supply, assessment, and scale-up of health innovation for the benefit of low- and middle-income countries. "This collaboration is another great example of how agencies are coming together in different ways to connect the ever-increasing supply of health innovations to the growing demand for those solutions in WHO member states", said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO Chief Scientist.