Social Innovation in Health Initiative

Designathons for Health: Collection of Practices to Develop a SIHI/TDR Practical Guide
2023-02-28 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Have you organized a designathon, hackathon, or similar process focused on health? Our open call to gather practices and practical strategies for health designathons is now open!
The Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) team, the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI), and the Ending HIV Transmission by Optimizing PrEP in East Asia (HOPE) consortium are organizing this call for descriptions of how people have organized their designathons.
Exceptional ideas will be recognized by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and included in a practical guide. In addition, selected finalists will be invited to join a consensus group to finalize a global consensus statement.
More details here: https://www.seshglobal.org/designathon-open-call/

SIHI Talks featuring the Community Engagement Self-Monitoring Strategy for Social Innovations in Health
2023-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
This month’s SIHI Talks features the Community Engagement Self-Monitoring (CE-SM) Strategy for Social Innovations in Health, which was implemented in selected communities in the Philippines. The CE-SM strategy aims to encourage partner communities of social innovation projects to develop a self-monitoring approach that strengthens community engagement. Communities document processes, understand the factors involved, and measure outcomes by developing a community-grounded self-monitoring tool and by implementing their own approach.

Learn more by joining SIHI Talks on 24 February, 12 p.m. GMT. Register now using this link: https://bit.ly/SIHITalks_CESM!

A Showcase of Social Innovations in Health: The SIHI African Hubs Experience
2023-02-16 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London)
A Showcase of Social Innovations in Health: The SIHI African Hubs Experience
16 February 2023, Thursday, 12 p.m. GMT
Featuring Social Innovations in Health in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda South Africa, and Uganda
REGISTER NOW: bit.ly/SocialInnovationsAfrica

SIHI Talks with Feebris
2022-11-25 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
The SIHI Talks in November features Feebris, a company with AI-guided tools that support community and family care workers to capture and share precise health measurements. The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and DERBI Foundation will also be part of a panel discussion on engaging the private sector for social innovation in health. Join us on 25 November, 12 p.m. GMT!
MORE ABOUT FEEBRIS: https://www.feebris.com

Go Youth! Global Open Call 2022 Public Pitch
2022-11-23 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
The Go Youth! Global Open Call 2022 Public Pitch happens on 23 November, Wednesday, at 1-3 p.m. Geneva time. The Go Youth! Global Open Call 2022 finalists will prepare five-minute video pitches of their innovations and will receive evaluations from a panel of independent judges. The top three innovations will receive prize money to help launch their projects or crowdfunding campaigns.
REGISTER FOR THE EVENT: https://bit.ly/3DziPD3
READ MORE ABOUT GO YOUTH!: https://bit.ly/3lYiOQy

Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2022)
2022-10-31 - 2022-11-04

SIHI Sweden: Taking Prevention of Youth Mental Health Ill-Health Into the Community
2022-10-27 09:45 - 12:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
SIHI Sweden invites you to an in-person seminar on 27 October focusing on community-based prevention of mental ill-health among youth. REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3CKglkE

SIHI Talks with PACIEH
2022-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
SIHI Talks featuring Pan-African Community Initiative on Education & Health (PACIEH)
24 October 2022, 12 p.m. GMT
Register via https://bit.ly/SIHITalks_PACIEH
Speaker: Prof Uche Amazigo, Founder and CEO, PACIEH
SIHI Talks, SIHI’s regular learning and partnership webinar, is free and open to the public.

SIHI TALKS featuring VALCARE
2022-09-29 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
This September’s SIHI Talks features Valcare with its CEO, Ivan Swartz. Valcare is an innovative and sustainable model in South Africa ensuring that social efforts have an impact. Join us on 29 September, 12 p.m. GMT by registering via https://bit.ly/SIHITalks_Valcare!

SESH Go Youth! Global Open call on Youth Voices (Submission Deadline)
2022-06-30

SESH Go Youth! Global Open call on Youth Voices
2022-06-02 - 2022-06-30
The Go Youth! Open Call for Youth Voices is a global competition that will identify youth-led social innovation in health initiatives around the world and support these in further research. The contest is organised by the Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health team (SESH). For more details, CLICK HERE.

SIHI Sweden Meeting
2022-04-01

Open call for changes for the delivery of sexual and reproductive health services during COVID-19 from WHO/HRP (Submission deadline)
2022-02-28

3rd COVID-19 Global Research & Innovation Forum
2022-02-24 - 2022-02-25

SESH Research Grant Writing Workshop
2022-02-23

First virtual cafe webinar
2022-02-09

Development of workshop: Communicate and capitalize on our social innovation projects: "Strategies for effective dissemination of projects"
2022-02-08 - 2022-02-15

SIHI LAC Honduras Node activities (closing contract, identification of stakeholder)
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28

Regional crowsourcing call for identification of SIH solutions during COVID-19 pandemic (workshop with innovators)
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28

3rd WHO Health for All Film Fetival - call for short films (Submission Deadline)
2022-01-30
