From an HIV saliva test, to developing cell phone interventions to fight breast cancer stigma in rural Bangladesh, to preventing maternal mortality in rural Africa, Grand Challenges Canada’s women innovators are making a difference.

We celebrate the power of women to have major impact and save lives in the developing world. Grand Challenges Canada is honoured to work with you and support your innovations.

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Le 8 Mars 2012, Journée internationale de la femme, Grands Défis Canada salue avec admiration les femmes innovatrices et leurs idées audacieuses.

D’un test de salive pour dépister le VIH, à la mise au point d’interventions à l’aide d’un téléphone cellulaire pour lutter contre le cancer du sein dans les régions rurales du Bangladesh, à la prévention de la mortalité maternelle en Afrique rurale, les femmes innovatrices de Grands Défis Canada font la différence.

Nous célébrons le pouvoir qu’ont les femmes d’exercer une grande influence, et de sauver et d’améliorer des vies dans le monde en développement. Grands Défis Canada est honoré de travailler avec vous et d’appuyer vos innovations.

Grand Challenges Canada has just announced the latest round of winners for the Canada’s Rising Stars in Global Health program, which aims to support bold ideas from the best and brightest of our young Canadian talent to address global health problems.   The next round of this program and a parallel program for developing world innovators are both open until March 23.

Ken and I are looking forward to engaging potential innovators about our program, learning more about developments in global science, and enjoying the world-class city of Vancouver!  We hope we get the chance to meet you but, if not, please feel free to reach out to us via Twitter (@kenssimiyu @rvshih @gchallenges) or email (stars@grandchallenges.ca).

In addition to meeting other participants and learning about general developments in the exciting world of global science, this year’s meeting represents a great opportunity for Canada to showcase its international leadership.   As you may imagine, we at Grand Challenges Canada are particularly excited about Canada’s strong leadership in global health.  To learn more about this, please check out the Canada Pavilion at the AAAS Exhibition Hall from Feb. 17-20.

Ken Simiyu (Program Officer) and I, Raymond Shih (Strategy and Operations Analyst) will be representing Grand Challenges Canada at the meeting and would love to hear from you.  Feel free to connect with us via Twitter (@kenssimiyu @rvshih @gchallenges) or email (Stars@grandchallenges.ca).

Grand Challenges Canada aims to fund bold ideas with big impact in the area of global health.