Bold Ideas with Big Impact®
Browse our Innovations and ResultsGlobal Mental Health
Grand Challenges Canada’s Global Mental Health program supports bold ideas to improve treatments and expand access to care for mental disorders, through transformational, affordable and cost-effective innovations that have the potential to be sustainable at scale.
Humanitarian Grand Challenge
The United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and Grand Challenges Canada have launched Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge. This challenge seeks to fund and accelerate solutions that enable life-saving or life-improving assistance to reach the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people in conflict-generated humanitarian crises.
Saving Lives at Birth
Grand Challenges Canada, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have joined together to support Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development. Together, we call for groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in poor, hard-to-reach communities around the time of childbirth.
Saving Brains
Saving Brains supports bold ideas to improve early brain and child development globally. The portfolio focuses on three areas of healthy development (health & nutrition, enrichment and protection) that, when addressed together, set up a child to reach his or her full potential.
Portfolio
CHEST: Child Health Education and Surveillance Tool
- Institution
- Elementos
- Implementation Country
- Peru
Training caregivers to enhance early child neurodevelopment in the prevention of konzo disease from toxic cassava in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Institution
- Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale
- Implementation Country
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
Stars in Global Health
The Stars in Global Health program supports Bold Ideas with Big Impact® from the best and brightest scientists and innovators, both in low- and middle-income countries and in Canada, to address some of the most pressing global health challenges. It provides funding to explore transformative ideas at proof-of-concept that bring together scientific/technical, social and business innovation.
Portfolio
The Preemie-Test: Prematurity detection by light
- Institution
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ
- Implementation Country
- Brazil, Mozambique
Improving access of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights with a social media marketing approach
- Institution
- Marie Stopes International Myanmar
- Implementation Country
- Myanmar
Transition To Scale
The goal of Grand Challenges Canada’s Transition to Scale program is to support innovators from Canada and from low- and middle-income countries who are positioned to take their bold ideas to big impact in the area of global health. Through the Transition To Scale program, Grand Challenges Canada brokers smart partnerships that mobilize private capital and domestic public resources to generate scalable and sustainable solutions that deliver measurable social impact.
Portfolio
Saving lives through the provision of affordable quality medical oxygen to health facilities in Kenya
- Institution
- Hewa Tele
- Implementation Country
- Kenya
MAMaZ Against Malaria: An evidence-based intervention to treat severe malaria
- Institution
- Development Data
- Implementation Country
- Zambia