Market Shapers interview series
Hear from market shaping visionaries and leaders about working on the frontline of shaping markets for health products.
Ira Magaziner
Ira Magaziner is a pioneering force in market shaping. As co-founder of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, he transformed access to life-saving medicines by applying strategic market tools to lower prices and expand supply.
Drawing on decades in business strategy and public policy, Ira’s work has saved millions of lives and earned him recognition as one of market shaping’s founding fathers.
Speaking with MedAccess CEO Michael Anderson, Ira discusses the central importance of dynamic cost analysis in expanding access to health products, Nelson Mandela’s request that President Clinton and Ira should use their skills to tackle the AIDS crisis – leading to the foundation of CHAI – and how a memo he wrote more than a decade ago led to the formation of MedAccess.
Aurélia Nguyen
Aurélia Nguyen has been at the heart of global vaccine access for over two decades. From shaping pricing policy at GSK to leading COVAX at Gavi and now serving as Deputy CEO at CEPI, she has helped build markets that deliver vaccines widely and equitably.
Her work has helped immunise hundreds of millions of children by aligning public health goals with market incentives.
In her interview with Michael Anderson, she talks about the early days of market shaping and helping to define the discipline, the huge responsibility she felt to get a Covid vaccine to market for low- and middle-income countries and why market shaping became the north star for her career.
Natalie Revelle
Natalie Revelle is a global health finance trailblazer. As Director, Volume Guarantees and Senior Financial Adviser at the Gates Foundation, she has led groundbreaking investments that have saved over $1 billion in procurement costs.
From vaccines to HIV treatments, Natalie’s financial ingenuity has expanded access to life-saving products in low- and middle-income countries, proving that smart, structured finance can reshape markets and deliver impact at scale.
Natalie talks to Michael about her love of problem solving, the three biggest criticisms volume guarantees face and the importance of a partnership mentality rather than an “us versus them” approach.
