Cancer and Climate Healthcare Challenge

The Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation (GHDIF) is launching a major new competition for UK tech start-ups. 

Competitors are being asked to demonstrate cutting-edge Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that will help patients manage their own cancer care, while building in the impact of climate change on their healthcare outcomes. 

The correct application of AI offers cancer patients the opportunity to navigate and manage their health outcomes, including the impact of climate change on their health. 

However this potential is not being realised. Why?

Participatory medicine has made a major impact as patients increasingly shape their own care pathways and personalise their treatments. But there are barriers to this progress as patients do not always take advantage of their options thanks to lack of knowledge and confidence. Using AI would however supercharge this process and give many more patients the opportunity to take control of their healthcare outcomes.

GHDIF is determined to tackle this and is launching the Cancer and Climate Healthcare Challenge to do so.

AI start-ups will be invited to use navigation tools, patient data, open datasets, and generative AI to improve cancer care - especially for vulnerable populations at increased risk from climate-related health impacts.

Participants will be asked to demonstrate how generative AI can:

• Synthesize diverse datasets to create comprehensive insights.
• Merge qualitative and quantitative data to offer patient-centred solutions.
• Deliver scalable and effective health navigation tools.

This competition aims to highlight the power of generative AI in creating practical 

intelligence for healthcare. 

By addressing the climate-health navigation challenge, competitors will contribute to flexible care models which can be used by both patients and health workers to improve healthcare.

We are seeking sponsorship from between one and four organisations which would become founding partners for the Prize. If interested please get in touch.