Global Health

Creating innovations to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, and mitigate chronic conditions

About Global Health

At Challenge Works, global health means harnessing innovation to improve health for all.

We are leaders in stimulating disruptive change for social good.

Meaningful Innovation for Global Health

Our challenge prizes crowd-in innovators to focus on urgent health problems. They support innovators to work directly with intended beneficiaries including patients and medics.

We partner with institutions, foundations, charities and governments to co-design and launch challenge prizes that improve access to quality healthcare around the world.

Prizes make an impact because they involve intended users in the design and implementation of an innovation, and have established a record of attracting new cohorts of innovators to solve urgent problems.

In addition to delivering innovation, they drive policy changes necessary to get those innovations to the people who need them most. Global health challenge prizes make a difference for funders and end-users alike.

Talk to us about the global health challenges you want to see solved and discuss how together we can develop bold prizes that incentivise innovators to address the most urgent national and international health needs.

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Thought leadership in Global Health

Our current prizes

Hand holding a petri dish. Dish is divided into four sections with different growths in each

Longitude Prize on AMR

Developing novel, affordable, accurate and rapid diagnostic tests to slow the development of antimicrobial resistance.

More about the Longitude Prize on AMR

Man in green surgical scrubs and mask looks through a window with reflections, behind him a woman with mask and PPE works in the background

Global Surgical Training Challenge (GSTC)

Making simulation-based training accessible through low-cost training modules.

More about the GSTC

Longitude Prize on Dementia In partnership with Alzheimer's Society, Innovate UK. Delivered by Challenge Works

Longitude Prize on Dementia

Supporting the development of assistive devices which enable people with dementia to live independently for longer.

More about the Longitude Prize on Dementia

Our Challenge Prizes

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