ABSTRACT
This chapter undertakes a case study analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation's support for product development partnerships (PDPs), in particular the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. It argues that private foundations have not only played a central role in the emergence of public-private partnerships (PPPs)-arguably the dominant policy paradigm in global health governance in the 2000s-but they have also further normalized private-sector involvement, sometimes, but not always, at the expense of proactive state and international organization (IO) interventions, while performing the role of interlocutor between the public, private and third sectors. The chapter analyses the Rockefeller Foundation's support in the 1990s for the budding PPP model, examining why this institution sought to attach itself to a series of PDPs which led to the formation of structured transnational policy networks, by way of an overview of the foundation's historical involvement in health. Finally, the chapter offers some commentary on the Rockefeller Foundation's future direction.
