“LAUNCH: Health” seeking transformative innovations to improve health and quality of life on Earth

LAUNCH is a unique initiative organized by the USAID, NASA and the US Department of State to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to humanity’s sustainability challenges through a series of forums on a specific sustainability challenge.

LAUNCH: Health is the second event in this series and it has a focus on health issues related to the first 20 years of life. This even is expected to bring together entrepreneurs from around the world who will be selected on their innovative approaches to addressing health issues.

LAUNCH: Health is seeking transformative innovations to improve health and quality of life on Earth – both in the developed and developing world – specifically in the first 20 years of life, in the following categories:

• Nutrition and food
• Physical activity
• Preventive health care

People can submit their ideas through the InnoCentive website, which allows hundreds of thousands of problem solvers throughout the world to collaborate on the posted challenges. Innovators can submit their health related proposals via the LAUNCH: Health challenge at: https://gw.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9625880

Proposals will be accepted until September 13, 2010 when the challenge will close and the winners will be selected.

Those who are selected will be invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Oct. 30-31 where the LAUNCH: Health forum will take place.