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Creating the world’s first free, globally-available, high-quality health sciences university
…with organizations, including universities and professional societies, certified to give courses for credit. NextGenU’s initial offerings focus on health sciences and include emergency medicine, environmental health, and climate change and health. NextGenU also offers students extensive human interaction (work products, structured peer interactions and one-on-one mentored activities), interactive computerized learning (interactive quizzes and word games), and…
Friendship Bangladesh: Integrated healthcare model to reach migratory, rural communities in Bangladesh
Over 89 million people live in remote areas of Bangladesh that are subject to natural disasters of increasing regularity and intensity as a result of global climate change, leaving poor migratory communities in northern and southern parts of the country with a complete absense or poor functioning health services and infrastructure. Friendship is the only …
Grand Challenges Canada at the Skoll World Forum: Five Innovative Solutions to Prioritize Mental Health for Young People Worldwide
One in seven adolescents worldwide faces mental health conditions, with anxiety and depression being the most common issues. Additional stressors, like the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, exacerbate the situation. Despite the growing need, national health budgets globally only allocate 2% to mental health. At this year's Skoll World Forum, Grand Challenges Canada’s Director of Scale and Sustainability, Adetunji Eleso, joined …
External COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
…COVID-19 crisis. Deadline: N/A Learn more IBM Call for Code COVID-19 Global Challenge IBM is accepting applications for technology solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 or climate change for a chance to win $200,000. The platform has also made learning and finding teammates more accessible. Deadline: N/A Learn more SKOLL COVID-19 Grants Skoll has announced…
Combining innovation and diplomacy to solve global health and development challenges
Science diplomacy recognizes that the most significant threats to the world today—food insecurity, climate change, disease, nuclear proliferation, and so on—transcend national borders, and that scientists have an important role to play in global cooperation towards discovering sustainable solutions. Science diplomacy involves the use of diplomacy to facilitate science cooperation, the use of science cooperation …
Theories of Change and Common Metrics Drive Search for Big Impact in Global Health
…and improving lives (the big impact) and – importantly – to help identify meaningful results along the path to impact at scale, we have adopted theories of change and common metrics. Theory of Change A theory of change is a road map that shows how the proposed innovation will make change in the world. To…
Launch of Being, a new international mental health initiative for young people
…people are going unmet due to a lack of resources. “Today, mental health challenges affect one in five children and adolescents worldwide; with the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the recent rise in living costs, we risk this worsening, along with the prospects and hopes for our future generation to experience wellbeing and thrive,”…such exceptional partners in this new collaborative effort, Being, with and for young people to improve mental wellbeing through innovation and research that will create positive, lasting change in local communities and beyond.” Engaging Partners in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Being will engage governments and policymakers from low- and middle-income countries. Although the lost contribution…
Launch of Being, a new international mental health initiative for young people
…people are going unmet due to a lack of resources. “Today, mental health challenges affect one in five children and adolescents worldwide; with the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the recent rise in living costs, we risk this worsening, along with the prospects and hopes for our future generation to experience wellbeing and thrive,”…such exceptional partners in this new collaborative effort, Being, with and for young people to improve mental wellbeing through innovation and research that will create positive, lasting change in local communities and beyond.” Engaging Partners in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Being will engage governments and policymakers from low- and middle-income countries. Although the lost contribution…
Grand Challenges Canada Welcomes Two Accomplished Global Health Leaders
…at E&K Consulting Firm, a pan-African advisory and investment firm, will be joining GCC's Investment Committee (IC). Dr. Rono, also the Co-Founder and Convenor of the Health Exchange (HealthX), holds a Ph.D. in Global Health from the Karolinska Institute. Through the Firm, he has advised on transactions worth over US$ 20 Billion in the global healthcare, innovation, and climate/ energy sectors. He has led advisory and investment engagements on behalf of over 130 organizations in over 30 countries in Africa, Europe and the Americas. His thought…
Waves for Change
…with stress, regulate behavior, and build positive relationships. Surf therapy is delivered by coaches from local communities who act as caring and consistent adults that youth can connect with and relate to. Waves for Change offers a blueprint for embedding sport therapy interventions within communities to address mental health in an accessible and stigma free way.