Call Breakout Sessions and Events | CODEV. 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 The following criteria will guide the selection process of either a breakout session or an event proposal: Costs.
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 If you are an investor and would like to receive an invitation, please get in touch with Pascal Lardier via pascal@health2con.com. 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!
[BBC Labs: Perceptive Radio & hidden photo camera … capturing all data that can be accessed from you and your devices] The Mozilla #EmbraceOpen team asked Mozillians: What does “open” mean to you? This was a recurring question for us, so we sketched a “Periodic Table of Open Elements” to show how open philosophy might be applied. [That’s Ac: Access, Ha: Hardware, Me: Methods, Co: Content, Fc: Free Culture, So: Software, Ph: Philosophy, Kn: Knowledge, Cs: Citizen Science, Da: Data] On the Science floor, we joined a hallway of map makers including Lucas Blair of Little Bird Games mapping career pathways in STEM.
And Billy Meinke from Creative Commons who mapped skills for open: We made #openhealthmap - a map of open source projects in health. Negative clinical trial data is often not available. 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? Implementation of the ACA has encouraged both the demand and supply sides of the health care accelerator field, and accelerators are responding by specializing according to ownership, purpose, or affiliation. The complete report is available under Document Downloads. 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. URL to share: Thanks for building this map with us! Kate P.S. 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. Women in technology may remain a minority, but that hasn’t stopped them from flocking to the fast-evolving landscape of health tech. Bringing their own brand of savoir-faire to address a variety of issues old and new, they innovate, problem-solve and collaborate to create uncommon opportunities.
Given their penchant for helping others and the voids to be filled that an industry in flux presents, it’s little wonder that there are more female-owned businesses in healthcare than any other single industry. The women below represent a slice of those tackling obstacles in wide-ranging areas including digital health, wearables and biotech. Monisha Perkash Co-Founder & CEO of Lumo BodyTech Caitlin Collins VP of Operations at Mango Health. 7 Wearables You'll See at Health 2.0 | MedTech Boston. 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. Invented by Harvard-trained researchers, the SunSprite is based on the idea that exposure to bright light improves energy and helps you sleep better. Find out more: Fitness Socks & Heart Rate Monitors from Sensoria Withings Activite Atlas Spire. 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. At Stanford University’s d.school, students learn that creativity is just another kind of skill. Along with Stanford grad students, the d.school teaches visiting executives and, more recently, hosts a class of fellows who are each trying to improve the world in some way.
“What we’re basically looking for are people who are expert in their area but are dissatisfied with the ecosystem in which they operate. The fellows come from wildly different backgrounds. “These are super qualified people,” Ferrell says. The fellowship starts by instilling what the d.school calls creative confidence. “I’m not the first person to work on this, but I’m probably one of the first people to apply design thinking to it,” Lee says. 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. At the moment, 2.5 billion people don’t have access to safe sanitation. Safe sanitation, that could save the lives of 1.5 million kids under the age of 5 globally every year and prevent so much sickness and suffering for 40% of the world’s population.
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 right answer could be worth up to $2 million. Knight officials said they'll be looking for ideas that, for example, make use of large public datasets, help inform healthcare consumers, leverage personal behavioral data or inform local health policy. mHealth tools and concepts should play a role in many of the proposals.
Each of the participating organizations, who will help with outreach and review the entries, weighed in on the importance of the challenge in the press release. The BoP Century? 2013 Innovators | Saving Lives at Birth. Integrity by Design: Kate Michi Ettinger at TEDxBarcelonaChange. Stars in Global Health | 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. Note to applicants from Peru / Nota para los solicitantes del Perú: Clique aquí para más información sobre ayuda adicional para innovadores basados en el Perú.
Deadline: Monday, March 10, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. ET In the Round 7 Request for Proposals, Grand Challenges Canada seeks bold ideas aligned with innovative social entrepreneurial approaches that could be easily implemented in developing countries to save and improve lives. Please submit queries to stars@grandchallenges.ca. 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. As always, we welcome your continued feedback on all entries.
The competition finalists continue to be eligible to win an additional $30,000 funding envelope from Boehringer Ingelheim. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to receive updates on the latest in social innovation and to send us your feedback. To visit our Japanese website, click here. Dear Changemakers Community, In emerging markets, on the other hand, many communities face major gaps in health provision. 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. The Iditarod? Nah, just the annual MIT Health and Wellness Hackathon. This isn’t your average social app-fest. Healing The Health Industry "The tradition in health care technology is, ‘This is our device, we make our own software,’" says Dr.
To unify the segmented market for health technology takes heavy lifting on the engineering side, since much of the progress made by private companies hasn’t been shared back to the community. "Working from a common platform takes an extra effort to build," Moore says, "but it ensures that the prototype will be something that has legs. " Hacking Together Industry Partnerships The teams encamped on the Media Lab’s sixth floor, overlooking a Charles River initially frozen so solid you could stroll over to the Back Bay for pizza. How Do You Incentivize Product-Ready Hacks? HiVIVA Beacon My Op Pressure Free Epicenter. 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. Among the Canadian-based projects: researchers will mimic rocket technology to propel coagulant nanoparticles into the bloodstream and stop maternal bleeding, a major cause of death in the developing world; test a high-tech Burn Survival Kit that includes a low-cost silver nanotubule dressing making treatment affordable; and develop an HIV infection detector that works in fewer than 5 minutes. Out-of-the-box projects based overseas include a new trading system in Kenya: seeds and fertilizers for proof of child vaccinations; a $100 kitchen reno to reduce indoor pollution and problem pregnancies in Bangladesh; cultivating disease-fighting prawns in Senegal; creating wealth from human waste in cholera-troubled Haiti; and, in Zambia, anti-diarrhea kits hitching a ride on Coca-Cola's distribution system to get essential medicine to "the ends of the Earth.
" TEDxSF - 7 Billion Well - Aza Raskin. The Final 3: EMR, Ageing & Community Building | andrealyip. Working-towards-People-Powered-Health. John Wilbanks: Let’s pool our medical data. Globalmentalhealth-grantees-EN | Grand Challenges Canada. 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. Findings The mortality rate in children younger than 5 years declined significantly from 226 deaths per 1000 livebirths (95% CI 207—246) in 1998 to 128 deaths (117—140) in 2009, an annual rate of decline of 5·1%. Interpretation Funding. Morgenthaler Names 13 Finalists for Health IT Pitch Fest. Meet the 30 Under 30, Class of 2012. Samsung launches S Health services: Monitors weight, blood sugar and graphs it all.
The bioethics Daily. Spring Fling: Matchpoint Boston. Welcome | Saving Lives at Birth. Health 2.0 India. Meet The Early Entry Winners of the Innovations for Health Competition. Mp SFBay | Accelerating Healthcare Innovation. Michael Meade, D.H.L.: The Two Great Stories of the World.