Call Breakout Sessions and Events. UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact 2-4 May 2016 | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Call for Sessions & Events | Selection Criteria | Costs Call for Sessions and Events The UNESCO Chair invites interested parties from research, industry, or civil society to submit either proposals for breakout sessions or events (e.g., hackathons, workshops, be creative …) under one of the six thematic core areas of the conference.
Breakout session or event proposals will need to provide a clear overview of the proposed session or event under the headings outlined in the prescribed template: Title of breakout session or event proposal Short description, alignment with conference themes, objectives and expected outcomes Summary of discussion/focus and target audience Planned program for event proposals Selection Criteria.
Health 2.0 Europe 2014. Free registration - by invitation only.
This event is part of the GET Funded service of the EU-funded GET Project, designed to provide health SMEs looking for Series B or follow-up funding (typically between 0.5-2M€) with training, resources, and networking opportunities with investors at the European level. Investors' Forum:How Do We Make Europe the Next Best Place for Digital Health Investments Includes short presentations from investment-ready SMEs: Diagnose.me * Emperra GmbH E-Health Technologies * Fertility Focus Limited * Findmehealth.com * MédecinDirect/Sympad * Medexo GmbH * MediSafe * Newolo * Vivago Oy * vital.services GmbH * SilverCloud Health * uMotif Digital Health. Post-MozFest Report: Mapping Open Projects in Health) We loved MozFest!
From the BBC Labs’ Ethical Cafe that prompted important questions about consent for data collection to a session on how to walk the talk, we had a blast learning, doing & (map) making! Survival of the Fittest: Health Care Accelerators Evolve Toward Specialization. Just a few years in existence, health care accelerators — programs that nurture entrepreneurs and their start-up firms — are proliferating.
There are now almost 90 dedicated health accelerators in the United States, and at least a dozen more around the world. Most of these focus on digital health and are less than two years old. To find out what these entities look like, how their environment is changing, and whether they are successful, Lisa Suennen, the author of this report, draws on input from leading entrepreneurs, sponsors, and accelerator founders. Suennen is the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie Consulting and co-author of Tech Tonics: Can Passionate Entrepreneurs Heal Healthcare with Technology? GoToWebinar : Webinars Made Easy. Award-Winning Web Casting & Online Seminar Hosting Software. Mapping Open Source Projects in Health)
We’re at MozFest this weekend!
Come and visit us at Science and the Web (7th Fl). We’ve teamed up with Jenny Molloy from the Open Science Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation to build a map of open source projects in health/health care. We’re looking for any and all projects that involve or depend on an element of open source (software, hardware, methods, data, citizen science, free culture). If you have a project that you know well or have heard about, please let us know about it. Tweet the name/link or share the details here. Meet 5 Women Breaking New Ground in Health Tech. Healthcare has seen impressive advances in technology but what might come as a surprise is the number of women whose research and investment lies behind them.
Here are just five. This post is written by Bonnie Boglioli-Randall and originally published on Women 2.0. 7 Wearables You'll See at Health 2.0. On September 21, 2014, healthcare innovators from across the country will come together in Santa Clara for four days of demos, networking, presentations and inspiration at the Health 2.0 Fall Conference.
Attendees will have access to 80 speakers, 30 panels, workshops, discussion sessions and 150 product demos. We’ll be there, but we got a sneak peak of the wearable technology demos that’ll be featured throughout the weekend and we wanted to share some of the coolest products with you. From sunlight monitors, to fancy watches, to fitness trackers you wear in your socks, you can’t miss the Health 2.0 wearable tech runway demos.
SunSprite This wearable, solar-powered light tracker measures the amount of sun you get each day. Want To Be More Creative In Your World-Changing Work? Apply For This Fellowship. Many people assume that creativity is some kind of innate trait, like green eyes or a certain height, that you either have or you don’t.
Only about half of Americans see themselves as creative. Reinventing the Toilet in India. Gandhi said “Sanitation is more important than independence”.
To demonstrate his commitment he made cleanliness and sanitation an integral part of the Gandhian way of living and believed in total sanitation for all. October 2, 2013, is the 144th birthday of Bapu and what better way for the Bill & Melinda Gates to celebrate this profound and inspirational leader, than to announce our new partnership with The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India in joint funding the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) to launch the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge – India.
If you are not immersed in the issues facing global sanitation, you should be. Welcome to Forbes. Knight Foundation News Challenge - Home. Little Devices. Knight challenge seeks innovative community health concepts. The Knight Foundation is joining with a quartet of healthcare's heavy hitters to spur new ideas to harness healthcare data technology for community health.
The Miami-based media conglomerate is launching a health innovation contest with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California HealthCare Foundation, Clinton Foundation and Health Data Consortium. The contest challenges participants to answer the question, "How might we harness data and information for the health of communities? " The BoP Century? Saving Lives at Birth. Integrity by Design: Kate Michi Ettinger at TEDxBarcelonaChange. Grand Challenges Canada. Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, has developed the Stars in Global Health program to support Bold Ideas with Big Impact from the best and brightest talent, both in low- and middle-income countries and in Canada, to use scientific/technical, social and business innovation to address some of the most pressing global health challenges.
This Request for Proposals is now closed. Round 7 Applicants will be notified in July 2014 regarding the application decision. Transforming Health Systems: Gamechanging Business Models. Winners announced! The verdict is in – the three winners of Transforming Health Systems: Gamechanging Business Models have been selected. Two winning entries, selected by the Changemakers community and a panel of expert judges, and the Idea Prize winner, represent gamechanging business models that are solving the systemic health problems of different markets around the world. They will receive cash prizes totalling US $55,000 plus support from Boehringer Ingelheim to help grow their innovations. Read about their solutions below. Katemural : Getting ready for... “Health Ideas” Week Kicks off with a #health #SocEntChat! (with image, tweets) · changemakers. MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For Your Body.
Siberian temperatures. Eleven grueling days, navigating rough terrain. Six teams, matched for talent, competing for glory at the end. Part 2: From Local to Global. Inspired: Canada funds 68 bold, inventive ways to improve health, save lives in developing countries. Grants were also announced for 17 Canadian-based projects to be implemented in developing countries. TEDxSF - 7 Billion Well - Aza Raskin. The Final 3: EMR, Ageing & Community Building. Working-towards-People-Powered-Health. John Wilbanks: Let’s pool our medical data. Globalmentalhealth-grantees-EN. Reduction in child mortality in Niger: a Countdown to 2015 country case study. This article can be found in the following collections: Global Health;Paediatrics(Paediatrics-other) Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. Background The Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) is to reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate of children younger than 5 years, between 1990 and 2015.
The 2012 Countdown profile shows that Niger has achieved far greater reductions in child mortality and gains in coverage for interventions in child survival than neighbouring countries in west Africa. Countdown therefore invited Niger to do an in-depth analysis of their child survival programme between 1998 and 2009. Methods We developed new estimates of child and neonatal mortality for 1998—2009 using a 2010 household survey. Morgenthaler Names 13 Finalists for Health IT Pitch Fest. Wade Roush9/18/12. Meet the 30 Under 30, Class of 2012. They're solving big problems in education and health care, creating jobs, and manufacturing right here in the U.S. Samsung launches S Health services: Monitors weight, blood sugar and graphs it all.
Samsung introduces S Health application for GALAXY S III. The bioethics Daily. Spring Fling: Matchpoint Boston. Saving Lives at Birth. Health 2.0 India. Meet The Early Entry Winners of the Innovations for Health Competition. A few months ago, Ashoka Changemakers and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio launched the 'Innovations for Health' competition.
Today we are happy to announce the early entry winners: PATIENT LEADERS United Kingdom The Centre for Patient Leadership sees (and positions) patients as leaders in pursuing solutions for better health care. The Centre runs programs that provide the knowledge, skills and behaviors that are required for patient leaders to catalyze and create change in the health care system. To date, 80 patient leaders have gone through the program, and feedback has been positive – both from the patients, with regard to their health, as well as from the organizations, with regard to capacity and decision-making processes. BEYOND BORDERS Pakistan & India NAYA JEEVAN is a social enterprise that provides low-income families around the developing world with affordable access to quality healthcare through the creation of hybrid models. Accelerating Healthcare Innovation. HealthCampSFBay 2012 Postponed Due to lack lustre ticket sales and with less than four weeks to go until the event we have been forced to cancel HealthCa.mp/SFBay.
Michael Meade, D.H.L.: The Two Great Stories of the World.