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Reflections from Grand Challenges Canada’s 2019 Summer Students
…the contextual challenges of under-resourced facilities in LMICs. My time at GCC has made me think about working in global health in order to create widespread, sustainable change in underprivileged settings. While I had thought global health policy was my ultimate career route, I feel my range of career options has broadened as a result…the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector. I hope to focus on improving sustainable access to safe drinking water and clean sanitation facilities, especially as they intersect with climate change. STEPHANIE XU Communications Summer Student Completed a Bachelor of Arts (University of Toronto); pursuing a Master of Science in Media, Communications, and Development (London School of…
Grand Challenges Canada receives USD $10M grant from the LEGO Foundation for Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings
…400 million children are currently living in areas of conflict and an estimated 1 billion children are living in areas of significant vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings will support locally-led, systems-focused innovations that provide quality early child development and education programs and services for children in Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya,…
Green canahua plants to fight malnutrition
…green canahua plants, and they are currently promoting its consumption by urban populations. One important outcome of the project was that another project, called Food Security for Climate Change Adaptation, financed by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, has taken up the results of the project and is promoting the consumption of green canahua plants by farmers from the…
Creating the world’s first free, globally-available, high-quality health sciences university
…with organizations, including universities and professional societies, certified to give courses for credit. NextGenU’s initial offerings focus on health sciences and include emergency medicine, environmental health, and climate change and health. NextGenU also offers students extensive human interaction (work products, structured peer interactions and one-on-one mentored activities), interactive computerized learning (interactive quizzes and word games), and…
Friendship Bangladesh: Integrated healthcare model to reach migratory, rural communities in Bangladesh
Over 89 million people live in remote areas of Bangladesh that are subject to natural disasters of increasing regularity and intensity as a result of global climate change, leaving poor migratory communities in northern and southern parts of the country with a complete absense or poor functioning health services and infrastructure. Friendship is the only …
Grand Challenges Canada at the Skoll World Forum: Five Innovative Solutions to Prioritize Mental Health for Young People Worldwide
One in seven adolescents worldwide faces mental health conditions, with anxiety and depression being the most common issues. Additional stressors, like the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, exacerbate the situation. Despite the growing need, national health budgets globally only allocate 2% to mental health. At this year's Skoll World Forum, Grand Challenges Canada’s Director of Scale and Sustainability, Adetunji Eleso, joined …
External COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
…COVID-19 crisis. Deadline: N/A Learn more IBM Call for Code COVID-19 Global Challenge IBM is accepting applications for technology solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 or climate change for a chance to win $200,000. The platform has also made learning and finding teammates more accessible. Deadline: N/A Learn more SKOLL COVID-19 Grants Skoll has announced…
Combining innovation and diplomacy to solve global health and development challenges
Science diplomacy recognizes that the most significant threats to the world today—food insecurity, climate change, disease, nuclear proliferation, and so on—transcend national borders, and that scientists have an important role to play in global cooperation towards discovering sustainable solutions. Science diplomacy involves the use of diplomacy to facilitate science cooperation, the use of science cooperation …
Theories of Change and Common Metrics Drive Search for Big Impact in Global Health
…and improving lives (the big impact) and – importantly – to help identify meaningful results along the path to impact at scale, we have adopted theories of change and common metrics. Theory of Change A theory of change is a road map that shows how the proposed innovation will make change in the world. To…
Launch of Being, a new international mental health initiative for young people
…people are going unmet due to a lack of resources. “Today, mental health challenges affect one in five children and adolescents worldwide; with the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the recent rise in living costs, we risk this worsening, along with the prospects and hopes for our future generation to experience wellbeing and thrive,”…such exceptional partners in this new collaborative effort, Being, with and for young people to improve mental wellbeing through innovation and research that will create positive, lasting change in local communities and beyond.” Engaging Partners in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Being will engage governments and policymakers from low- and middle-income countries. Although the lost contribution…