Global Summit 2025

Global Health Innovation
Grand Challenge Competition

The competition will bring the best student innovation teams from around the world to solve real problems in global health that can be further developed through the consortium network. The 2026 Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge Request for Proposals (RFP) is now available.

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Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge Awards

The Summit featured the Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge Pitch competition to showcase groundbreaking solutions to real-world health problems.

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First Global Summit Fuels Health Care Innovation, Awards $250k to Student Entrepreneurs

Health care innovators and educators from around the world kick-started their quest to change the future of medicine and medical education at the first Global Summit of the Global Consortium on Innovation and Engineering in Medicine

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Carle Illinois College of Medicine Leads New Global Consortium Driving Health Innovation

Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is leading a first-of-its-kind global network to revolutionize medicine through engineering-based solutions to health problems across the globe.

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As a supporter of the Global Consortium of Engineering-Based Medicine and Innovation, you will play a pivotal role in CI MED and UIUC's worldwide effort to reengineer the future of health care and medical education. This is an opportunity to support the work of some of the brightest minds in medical science, engineering, and other disciplines as they collaborate and innovate on a global scale.