MIT Solve: Health in Fragile Contexts Challenge

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How to build resilience in health systems and maintain access to care despite destabilizing events? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve community is looking for eight technology-based solutions that help maintain access to health care and build health system resilience in fragile contexts.

Fragile contexts are not limited to large-scale or devastating situations like humanitarian crises. They can also include communities where governance is weak and unable to cope with systemic and institutional inequities, poverty, unemployment, violence, or other factors. In fragile contexts around the world, underserved communities, including but not limited to, women and girls, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and older adults are often disproportionately affected.

Technology and innovation, when deployed thoughtfully and in concert with other interventions, have the ability to strengthen health infrastructure, ensure health-related data is current, comprehensive, and actionable, and improve governance and coordination between local and international communities in fragile contexts. Community-driven solutions are also crucial for providing local context in fragile settings and ensuring all people (including less visible groups) have access to the care they need.

Prize Detail

• Selected solutions will receive and minimum of $10,000 in funding, and much more.

Eligibility

Solutions that Solve Seeks

To that end, Solve seeks solutions that:

• Increase local capacity and resilience in health systems, including the health workforce, supply chains, and primary care services.

• Enable informed interventions, investments, and decision-making by governments, local health systems, and aid groups.

• Improve accessibility and quality of health services for underserved groups in fragile contexts around the world (such as refugees and other displaced people, women and children, older adults, and LGBTQ+ individuals).

• Enable continuity of care, particularly around primary health, complex or chronic diseases, and mental health and well-being.

Post Date: 02-Feb-2023