Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition 2024: (Deadline 12 February, 2024)

Applications are now open for the 2024  Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition. Open to any student-led team that has designed a health-related solution. All countries. All academic fields. A competition to celebrate good design in healthcare! Winners show a solid understanding of the need; the people impacted, focused problem-solving, and a great real-world solution!

Competition Tracks:

• Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems
• Global Health/ Humanitarian Design
• Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health
• Post-Surgical Infection Management

About Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health is a unique and collaborative Johns Hopkins academic program conducted jointly by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. It is hosted by the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and draws upon a variety of disciplines, including epidemiology, demography, emergency and disaster medicine, health systems management, nutrition/food security, environmental engineering, mental health, political science and human rights. The Center collabo…

Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition

Aim and Benefits of Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition

Award for each trach

1st Prize $5,000

2nd Prize $3,000

3rd Prize $1,000

Requirements for Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition Qualification

1. Project must be focused on a healthcare application in either of the 4 tracks
   • Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems
   • Global Health/ Humanitarian Design
   • Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health
   • Post-Surgical Infection Management
2. Project must have been started after January 1st, 2022
3. Project must be driven by full-time students
   • Postdoc research projects are ineligible.
   • Projects that have utilized significant funding (>$100K) are ineligible.
   • Projects that are not run by full-time students are ineligible. For example, projects run by startup companies or faculty are ineligible.
   • Eligible full-time students include those working towards undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees (MBA, MD, etc.).
   • Project teams should comprise of more than one full-time student.
4. Applicants can submit multiple unique projects

Interview date, Process and Venue for Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition

Format

The Design Brief must be no more than 2 pages in length including figures. References can be listed as a separate page.

• Use an Arial, Helvetica, Palatino Linotype, or Georgia typeface, a black font color, and a font size of 11 points or larger. (A Symbol font may be used to insert Greek letters or special characters; the font size requirement still applies.)
• Type density, including characters and spaces, must be no more than 15 characters per inch. Type may be no more than six lines per inch. Use standard paper size (8 ½” x 11). Use at least one-half inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right) for all pages. No information should appear in the margins.
• Figures, plots, and/or photos are highly recommended but are counted towards the page limit.
• References can be included in a separate page and are not part of the two-page requirement

Timeline:

• February 12 – Submission of two-page proposals
• March 18 – Finalists informed
• April 13 – Final round (virtual event)

Application Deadline

12 February, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Johns Hopkins University on docs.google.com to applyFor more details, visit OFFICIAL LINK