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Transform Health Fund Surpasses $100 Million Target Final Close to Improve Access to Quality Healthcare in Africa
AfricInvest and The Health Finance Coalition (HFC) today announced the final close of the pan-African Transform Health Fund (THF), an innovative blended-finance fund that aims to bolster healthcare systems in Africa by scaling proven and innovative healthcare models across the continent.
Grand Challenges Canada receives USD $10M grant from the LEGO Foundation for Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings
The LEGO Foundation announced a USD $10M grant to Grand Challenges Canada today to support Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings, a new humanitarian grand challenge focused on supporting locally-led innovations for early childhood development and education in emergency settings.
Max Foundation wins Grand Challenges Canada’s Rotman Innovation of the Year Award
Max Foundation has been awarded the CAD $10,000 Rotman Innovation of the Year Award for their work to ensure healthy growth for children in Bangladesh.
Grand Challenges Canada and South African Medical Research Council nominate 40+ new innovations for funding awards in climate change and health
At COP28 in Dubai, Grand Challenges Canada CEO Dr. Karlee Silver announced that 40+ new innovations have been nominated for funding awards for their work on the impact of climate change and health. Selected innovations will receive up to $150,000 CAD that address health effects of climate change in low-and middle-income countries, with a focus on communicable diseases, nutrition security, mental health, heat stress and more.
How the National Institutes of Health could have helped prevent COVID vaccine apartheid
By: Jocelyn Mackie, Co-CEO, and David Brook, Chief Strategy Officer, Grand Challenges Canada. A recent New York Times article, Moderna and U.S. at Odds Over Vaccine Patent Rights, highlights an all-too-common challenge in the world of public-private partnerships for health research and innovation—who has the legal right to deploy the novel products and services that […]
Reflections from Grand Challenges Canada’s 2021 Summer Fellows
Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) has seen yet another summer come and go. Despite our work-from-home context, summer fellows went above and beyond with new perspectives, inventive solutions, and passionate attention to issues that mattered most to them. The fellows never cease to amaze GCC with their dedication and hard work! This year, operating within an […]
Grand Challenges Canada provides additional support to 14 innovations to assist low- and middle-income countries to keep women and children healthy during COVID-19 pandemic
Grand Challenges Canada, with funding from the Government of Canada, is increasing its investments in 14 health and international development projects. Our support allows innovators to adapt their product to also provide novel, affordable and locally sourced resources, ideas and solutions to acquire critical COVID-19 supplies and services for low-resource countries during the global pandemic. […]
Grand Challenges Canada appoints two noteworthy Board members to benefit from the values and wisdoms of local communities
Noted Franco-Manitoban Métis midwife Nathalie Pambrun and internationally renowned Senegalese scholar and scientist Dr. Awa Marie Coll Seck join board of Canadian impact-first investor Toronto, January 21, 2021—Grand Challenges Canada—a Canadian not-for-profit organization, primarily funded by the Government of Canada, which invests in novel, local innovations that address critical global health, humanitarian and Indigenous community […]
Grand Challenges Canada provides additional support to 14 innovations to assist low- and middle-income countries to keep women and children healthy during COVID-19 pandemic
Secondary health crisis expected with the loss of primary care for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health Toronto, November 17, 2020—Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), with funding from the Government of Canada, is increasing its investments in 14 innovative health and international development projects. Our support allows innovators to adapt their product to also provide novel, […]