Social Innovation in Health Initiative

SESH Research Grant Writing Workshop
2022-02-23

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

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

SIHI Sweden Meeting
2022-04-01

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.

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

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!

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 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

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

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

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

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 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!

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/

Designathons for Health: Collection of Practices to Develop a SIHI/TDR Practical Guide (Extended Deadline)
2023-03-07
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 the 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. At least four finalists will be supported to join the in-person consensus meeting that will occur in July 2023 in Chicago, USA.
Submissions close March 7th, 2023. All finalists will be notified on the outcome of their submissions by end-April, 2023.

SIHI Talks: Scaling Up Digital Social Innovations for Health
2023-04-26 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
SIHI Talks on 26 April will tackle scaling up digital social innovations for health with the founders of Neuphony and Ayati Devices Pvt. Ltd. This month’s SIHI Talks is in collaboration with SIHI India.

SIHI Talks: A Closer Look at Social Innovations in Health - Examining Gender and Intersecting Social Stratifiers at a Community Level
2023-05-31 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
SIHI Talks this May, A Closer Look at Social Innovations in Health: Examining Gender and Intersecting Social Stratifiers at a Community Level, is with TDR’s Ms. Mariam Otmani Del Barrio and our colleagues Dr. Phylllis Awor (SIHI Uganda), Sofía Zuluaga and Charlotte Pana Scott (SIHI LAC), and Dr. Jana Deborah Mier-Alpaño (SIHI Philippines). This happens on 31 May 2023, 12 p.m. GMT. Register here: https://bit.ly/SIHITalks_Gender

SIHI Talks: Unleashing the Power of Designathons in Health and Health Research
2023-07-12 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
The SIHI Talks webinar, “Unleashing the Power of Designathons in Health and Health Research,” on 12 July at 8am-9am ET aims to introduce designathons for health, and provide practical advice on organizing designathons for health and recommendations about monitoring and evaluation of designathons.

SIHI Indonesia Crowdsourcing for TB Elimination: Overcoming Challenges with Innovative Solutions
2023-07-30
SIHI Indonesia, in collaboration with TDR Global and the 5th Indonesian Tuberculosis International Meeting (INA-TIME), is searching for implemented solutions that enhance the healthcare delivery in the context of tuberculosis. Share your solutions to bit.ly/InnovativeSolutionINATIME on or before 30 July, 2023 at 23:59 UTC+7 (Extended deadline).

#TheHealthYouthWant Call
2023-07-31 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York)
Calling all young people passionate about health! How might we ensure adolescent health and well-being in places with a high burden of HIV in the coming decades? Submit your ideas on or before 31 July 2023, 11:59 pm (US Eastern Time). Visit https://bit.ly/454ioMX for more details.

SIHI Malawi and SIHI Rwanda Call for Solutions 2023
2023-07-31
SIHI Malawi and SIHI Rwanda are looking for innovative local solutions focused on climate change which are being implemented to combat its impacts on health. Submit your solutions by 31 July 2023 (extended deadline). More details here: https://bit.ly/43PQfsW

2023 PAHO Crowdsourcing Call in Partnership with SIHI LAC
2023-08-09
We are searching for social innovation strategies that have made health care far and just for communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Submit your solutions on or before 9 August 2023. More details are available here: https://bit.ly/3q5RRAd

Poster Submission for SIHI Sweden's Exploring Community Engagements for Social Innovation in Health
2023-08-28
SIHI Sweden is organizing the 2nd annual conference in October 2023 with the title “Exploring Community Engagements for Social Innovation in Health.”
The conference is organized by SIHI Sweden which is hosted by SWEDESD, Uppsala University in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University.
Are you part of a social innovation project within health and want to inspire others with your work? We welcome you to present a poster at the conference. All projects are welcome, including community-based and research projects.
More details about the conference here: https://www.swedesd.uu.se/collaboration/sihi-conference-2023/
