Deadline: 17 March 2025
Are you an outstanding African innovator with a solution for an important health challenge in Africa? If you’re building a science-based venture focused on disease prevention, diagnosis, management, or treatment and have a strong foundation in the science or technology behind your innovation, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. Apply now!
Africa Oxford Health Innovation Platform (AfOx-HIP) is open to work with any type of technology and in any discipline, including outside life sciences and engineering sciences, to create solutions for disease prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment. This includes vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices, therapeutics and surgical devices.
Solutions with high impact potential that offer opportunities for transformative health delivery in Africa will be prioritised. They especially encourage solutions aimed at:
- reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases amongst African populations
- optimising diagnostic and prognostic tests for African contexts
- novel diagnostic tools to increase resilience to endemic diseases
- preventing, diagnosing or treating zoonotic diseases
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be:
- A national of an African country or have indefinite leave to remain in an African country
- Domiciled in an African country in which they must be a legal resident and
- Developing the proposed health innovation in their host country
- Applicants must meet all these three criteria above.
For more information, visit Africa Oxford Initiative.
