Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge 2025

Call for Student Teams

Are you passionate about solving real-world health problems? Do you have an innovative idea that could transform healthcare? This is your chance to join a global competition, collaborate with talented students from diverse fields, create impactful health solutions, and share your ideas with leading academic institutions, companies, and government health leaders from around the world!

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About the Challenge

The Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge 2025 is an international competition designed to bring together multi-disciplinary teams of students to tackle current challenges in global health and healthcare. The competition is open to students and physicians in training worldwide who are enrolled at member institutions of the Global Consortium of Innovation and Engineering in Medicine.

This competition invites you to form a team, develop your idea, and showcase your solution on the global stage to compete for over $250,000 USD in prize funding!

Why Participate?

Make a Difference

Work on real-world health challenges and develop innovative solutions that could change lives on a global scale.

Global Networking

Collaborate with like-minded students/faculty from top medical and engineering institutions across the world and expand your professional network.

Skill Development

Gain hands-on experience in innovation, teamwork, and problem-solving.

Win Funding

The winning teams will compete for over $250,000 in prize funding to help advance their ideas to real clinical impact.

Timeline

Application Deadline: January 15, 2025 (please note local member institutions may have their own, internal deadlines to facilitate letters of support for submissions by this date).

Global Grand Challenge
(Semi-finals & Final Pitch Events) in Illinois April 6-8, 2025

For more details, contact your local member institution or reach out here

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