Grand Challenge 1: Stars in Global Health
1. CANADa’s RISING STARS IN GLOBAL HEALTH
The tremendous skills, knowledge and innovation of Canadians mean we can boldly harness an opportunity to address global health challenges. In an effort to promote the burgeoning leadership role Canada has in global health, we have developed Canada’s Rising Stars in Global Health program to support the best and brightest of our early-career Canadian talent who will use scientific/technical, social and business innovation to address the most pressing global health problems.
2. Rising Stars in Global Health
In this program, Grand Challenges Canada is seeking to apply its Canada’s Rising Stars in Global Health funding model to help support talented early-career innovators from low- and lower-middle-income countries. Grand Challenges Canada hopes to harness the creativity, energy and experience of exceptional, emerging innovators from low- and lower-middle-income countries to develop innovative solutions for global health.
3. Low- and Middle-Income Countries Stars in Global Health / Co-Funding with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Global health problems hit individuals and communities in the poorest and most underdeveloped parts of the world the hardest. The solutions to those problems are most salient when they emerge from the communities most affected. These “home grown” solutions to global health are grounded in local intelligence, culture and conditions, and thus best fit the developing world environments for which they are targeted and can have the greatest impact.
This program aims to support innovation in low- and middle-income countries by co-funding Phase II grantees selected by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations’ Grand Challenges Explorations program, a program with a track record of success. This arrangement and additional support through proposal development workshops provides an opportunity to provide low- and middle-income country innovators access to the necessary resources to drive impact.
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