Registration is Open for the Global Health Hack Day!

The Cambridge Science Festival has a unique offering this year for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between science and entrepreneurship.  The Global Health Hack Day is an “open innovation” event being run by the Humanitarian Centre, in partnerhsip with the Cambridge University Technology and Entreprise Club (CUTEC).

The Global Health Hack Day is based on a pioneering open innovation event run by CUTEC and Cambridge-based company Medimmune in 2011.  This year, the Humanitarian Centre & CUTEC have drawn their challenges from the field of Global Health (the Humanitarian Centre’s theme for 2011-12).  On 24 March 2012, eight teams of bright and enterprising students will present approaches to real global health challenges they have worked on over the course of a week, to an audience of Science Festival enthusiats, entrepreneurs, professionals, and other students who want to “break down some barriers between academia and industry”.  The winning team will be awarded a prize by a panel of expert judges.

To register to participate in the Global Health Hack Day on 17 March (for university students and post-doctoral researchers) or to come to the Prize Reception on 24 March, where the student teams will present their work, please visit the eventbrite site at: globalhealthhackday.eventbrite.co.uk.

To find out more about the participating organisations and the challenges they will present: click here.

ADDENBROOKE’S ABROAD: http://www.act4addenbrookes.org.uk

Addenbrooke’s Abroad supports staff and students from Cambridge University Hospitals and the surrounding health community to share their expertise with resource poor communities abroad in the knowledge that engaging in global health also has benefits for patients and healthcare workers here in the UK.  Read more . . 

COSTELLO MEDICAL CONSULTING: www.costellomedical.com

Costello Medical Consulting (http://www.costellomedical.com/) is a young and dynamic medical consultancy working with the pharmaceutical industry on medical writing and market access projects, with the broad aim of helping companies to launch and establish new drugs on the market.  Read more . . .

HEALTH PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: http://www.healthpartners-int.co.uk/
HPI deals in health system strengthening in developing countries. One of our specialisms is the management of healthcare technology, which means anything from stethoscopes to MRI scanners. If technology is properly managed, its lifetime lengthens considerably, costs are lowered and more lives are saved.  Read more . . .

HOVERAID: www.hoveraid.co.uk
HoverAid is a small charity with one big idea – that hovercraft can be used to overcome the very basic problem of travel to and from remote rural communities in the developing world. There are very few areas of the world where hovercraft are the right vehicle to use. If you can use a truck or boat then do, but If you can’t get there by normal means that’s when a hovercraft might be the solution. Hovercraft can get to places no other vehicle can get to, shallow, twisting rivers that stump boats, cars, bikes, quads and the like are hovercraft highways!  Read more . . .

MEDIC MOBILE: http://medicmobile.org/
Medic Mobile uses communication technologies to improve the health of underserved and disconnected communities. Our efforts enable more people to access health services (such as antenatal care), help people stay in care, and improve the quality of services by supporting and monitoring supply chain management.  Partnering with more than 30 nongovernmental organizations, ministries of health and grassroots clinics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we have supported more than 5,000 health workers serving hundreds of thousands of patients.  Read more . . .

PATIENTS KNOW BEST: http://www.patientsknowbest.com/

Patients Know Best (PKB) is founded on the principle that everyone in health care benefits when you put the patient in control of the records. Integration of records is possible across hospitals and communities, reducing cost of care, raising quality of outcomes, and increasing patients’ happiness. Public discourse often paints the patient as a liability, but we see the patient as an asset.  Read more . . .

PHG FOUNDATION: http://www.phgfoundation.org/
The PHG Foundation is committed to bringing biomedical innovations to benefit public health. We have recently developed an innovative and free Health Needs Assessment Toolkit (HNA Toolkit) to help countries make robust evidenced based cases for the development of services to prevent, treat and care for birth defects in their populations.  Read more . . .