#COVID19 is affecting essential health services. Awa Marie Coll Seck, Karina Gould & I believe that putting gender equality at the heart of policy & financing can counter the effects of the #pandemic on women and girls: wrld.bg/riQd50FmX9c

The Global Health team at Grand Challenges Canada is looking for talented individuals who have the right to work in 🇨🇦 to manage innovation portfolios focused on #mentalhealth #SavingBrains #socialfinance #mnch. grandchallenges.ca/who-we-are/car…

Best single talk of #GC2021 for me was Dr. Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen making the case for including pregnant women in clinical trials and vaccination campaigns. Spent my whole postdoc annoyed that this was seen as too risky to do while ignoring the risk of not doing it. About time!

📣 #JobAlert: Director, Humanitarian Innovation. As articulated by the departing director👇, its a dream job. #humanitarian #innovation

Thanks for the shout out Bill Gates for Grand Challenges Canada! 🇨🇦was a leader in being 1st country to take a grand challenges approach - working to solve global problems through innovation for impact. Our impact not possible without support from Development Canada #GCAM22

We’re gearing up for our first Pitch Event at the #GrandChallenges Annual Meeting! Over the course of the next two hours we will hear from supported innovators on their game changing solutions to improve the delivery of #humanitarian aid to conflict affected people.

Want to address youth mental health? Support youth leaders and get out of the way! Standing room only for this fabulous panel at #GrandChallenges Annual Meeting highlighting youth-led mental health innovations. United for Global Mental Health Fondation Botnar Grand Challenges Canada citiesRISE

.Karlee Silver: “We are very pleased to renew the strategic partnership between the International Development Innovation Alliance and World Health Organization (WHO). Life-saving and -improving innovations need to scale in order to reap the rewards of investing in innovation." who.int/news/item/21-1…

Day 2 with an early one! Donor funding has skewed laboratory systems in Africa to single disease rather than systems. No wonder it’s not sustainable! Grand Challenges Canada Science for Africa Foundation @WOAH_Global are taking a #GrandChallenges approach to addressing the sustainability challenge.

It’s 🚀 day! We're BEING, a 🌎 mental health initiative envisioning lasting change in local communities and beyond by innovating to improve young people’s wellbeing. Hosted by Grand Challenges Canada with United for Global Mental Health Fondation Botnar & Development Canada #beinginitiative

We’ll work with and for young people towards a world where they feel well and thrive by combining: 🌐Networks 💡Research 🌱Innovation 📣Policy & Advocacy 🤝🏽Engagement with young people and people with lived experience

By supporting young people and their communities, we'll help create lasting change in local communities & beyond! Learn more about us and our current opportunities for collaboration ➡️ bit.ly/3yZbcV3.

Follow Being - the newest global #mentalhealth funding initiative just launched at #GrandChallenges 2022 by partners Grand Challenges Canada (funded by Development Canada), Fondation Botnar, Department of Health and Social Care & United for Global Mental Health. Partner from Global South will be announced soon.

The first call for Being 👇

"Canada is one of the world’s largest funders of #GlobalHealth initiatives. This funding could achieve even more if more of it was spent on proven, mature health innovations that scale quickly." By Karlee Silver and Adetunji Eleso of Grand Challenges Canada. #CdnPoli options-po.li/3gANdFa

Don't miss Humanitarian Grand Challenge Director Fawad Akbari at the opening plenary of the Canadian Conference on Global Health tomorrow. #CCGH2023 will bring together more than 700 global health, humanitarian and development practitioners, academics & researchers. Register now ⬇️