Grand Challenges Canada provides grant support for bold ideas with big impact in global health. The bold ideas integrate science and technology, social and business innovation. Grand Challenges Canada focuses on innovator-defined challenges through its Stars in Global Health program and on targeted challenges in its Saving Lives at Birth, Saving Brains and Global Mental Health programs.
Grand Challenges Canada expects that the innovative ideas it funds will eventually be scaled up through partnerships, either from the private sector, the public sector or a combination of both.
Grand Challenges
- Stars in Global Health – to support Bold Ideas with Big Impact from the best and brightest talent, both in low- and middle-income countries and in Canada, to use scientific/technical, social and business innovation to address some of the most pressing global health challenges.
- Saving Lives at Birth – groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in poor, hard-to-reach communities around the time of childbirth.
- Saving Brains: Unlocking the Potential for Development – The Grand challenge to develop sustainable ways to promote and nurture healthy child and brain development in the first 1000 days at scale with lasting impact on human capital in low-resource settings.
- Global Mental Health – bold ideas to improve treatments and expand access to care for mental disorders through transformational, affordable and cost-effective innovations which have the potential to be sustainable at scale.
- Hypertension in Low-and Middle-Income Countries – to support innovative solutions for the implementation of high blood pressure prevention and control, in low- and middle-income countries and aboriginal communities, in Canada and abroad.
- Point-of-Care Diagnostics – to create a new class of point-of-care diagnostics that will be easy to use, low cost, multiplexed and able to assess disease stage and provide information on prognosis.
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