 Welcome. I'm Anna Joy, the director of the Humanitarian Centre. This event is about bringing together academics and researchers, NGOs, private sector, students, all working together, sharing their expertise so that ultimately people are working more effectively with partners and communities in the global south in developing countries and people's lives are changed because their access to healthcare is improved. It's called a Global Health Hack Day, but it's actually a week. Today is the day when 30 students come together. They are presented with seven challenges. They then work with people from those organisations, both private sector companies and NGOs, who mentor them, explain more, explain the details, set the task. The students then go away for a week and work together. And then next Saturday we'll have an evening reception where there'll be a much wider audience who will hear both the challenges that they've been set and their solutions. Enjoy, get to know each other and we can't wait to see what the outcomes are going to be. In the developing world in particular there are a lot of areas that we hope innovation can have an impact on. So from a QTEC standpoint we hope that some of these challenges will either result in solutions for the various NGOs that are taking part, or they'll stimulate the participants or even people who've been watching to go and do something new and to really drive something new forward that can help mankind. Two brand new incubators. Sitting in a room underneath the pile of expired medicines and other broken equipment because there isn't anybody around who's got the capacity or the training to install and commission them. This is a very, very common scene in low resource settings throughout the world. I work for Health Partners International. We do health systems strengthening in developing countries. We have a specialism in healthcare technology management and the challenge today for the people here is to help us to use the resources that we have better to make them more accessible to the people who need to use them and to enable the people who do use them to manage better with what they've got. Hoverade, use hovercraft to reach the unreachable. Hovercraft can get to places where no other vehicle can get to, pretty much. So what we do is get to those places. The challenge she was setting today is to develop a framework or a way of assessing more places a hovercraft can get to. We know places we can get to and we know ways of doing it but we're looking to find an easier way of assessing everywhere so that we don't overlook people and regions just because we don't know about them or we haven't got enough data on them. Now the PhD Foundation are an international, independent, not-for-profit UK-based health charity with the idea that trying to make science work for health. We have developed a tool kit, a framework and tool kit for conducting a health needs assessment for birth defects and the challenge is to try and maximise its uptake in India and how we go about this as a UK-based charity. I mean I have two children and the impact that I can have on their lives is huge but here we're talking about six million children that are born with a birth defect that is preventable, treatable or can be cured and if we start to think that having an impact on one child's life is huge imagine doing that six million times. If we can start to treat these children, if we can care for them if we can alter services so that where these conditions are preventable through folic acid supplementation and fortification of foods for example we can have a massive impact. Universal access, private and secure. Patients are best is a portal for a patient to download their medical records. Patients No Best's challenge today was looking at South Africa. 25% of the market there is internet connected which is not very good because we're an internet company but that 75% to 100% are mobile literate and our challenge was to look at the pros and cons of transforming patients No Best from an internet based to a mobile based. Something like a mobile device could save millions of lives and it's really worth it. It's really great being part of this. There's lots of people here with loads of great ideas loads of great initiatives. I learnt a lot about other things that are going on in the area and so you should get a lot more knowledge and also people have come up to me instead of never heard of Hoverade before so it's quite good to enable other people to hear about us as well so it's kind of sharing and gaining knowledge from everybody in the room really. It's really, really lovely to see all sorts of different people thinking about how to solve worldwide problems. It's very, very interactive and very exciting. My name is Isaac Holman. I'm the Chief Strategist of Medic Mobile and I'm very happy to be joining you today. Our mentor Isaac is terrific, a really passionate guy but we had an additional challenge on our team because he's based in California so he's far away. He had to get up very early in the morning for him for our first brainstorming session so it definitely made a bit of a challenge but I suppose it was appropriate because we were working on mobile technology so a little bit of interconnectedness through Skype and other technology was set the scene really well. So about three years ago with the idea that we could use communication technologies to improve the health of underserved and disconnected communities. So the challenge we were given was finding a way to uniquely identify patients using the SIM card technology that Medic Mobile uses in their projects. Medic Mobile is a company that works on using essentially communication software to improve the delivery of health in remote and disconnected areas. One of the really exciting applications that's coming out of that is what's called mobile healthcare or mHealth where with massive mobile penetration in the developing world you can actually leverage these mobile phones to deliver and support healthcare services. I work for Adam Brooks Abroad and the challenge that we've set the students is to look at innovative ways of assessing the impact of Adam Brooks Abroad's activities on healthcare workers, patients and health institutions at home and abroad and look at effective ways of disseminating this. Or to have guidance and constraints and limitations so that the focus of brainstorming shifts from trying to interpret Adam Brooks' broad objectives to... The students have jumped right into the challenge they're beavering away quite basically coming up with lots of ideas, lots of areas that I haven't thought of before and I'm really looking forward to the outcome. I thought the brainstorming was really good. It brings together different people with different expertise from different areas we're all coming from different places trying to look at a common theme a common challenge here so it's just putting different ideas into the mix and bouncing those ideas off each other so I thought the process worked well. That actually came up with some really good ideas discussed a lot of what we've already done and what they could do and some silly ideas and some new ideas and I think it's going to come up with something really interesting and exciting that's going to happen at the end and hopefully something you can actually use because they're very screwed on people. I think it was good I think there were loads of ideas that we would never have come up with being a bit stuck in our ways. We've given them a few ideas to go away with and they're really enthusiastic. Brainstorming was exhausting. We've had lots of lists of pros and cons and we were hitting lots of cons so it's about actually really getting together again and looking at the issue much more closely. The idea is that the team now go away bounce ideas off themselves do a little bit of background research use their own individual expertise ideas to meet this challenge they then come back to us as mentors on Wednesday and we then create a final idea what we're going to take forward and start to put together a presentation for this time next week. Welcome to this really exciting prize giving reception. We're really excited because the teams that have been working during the week on these global health challenges are about to present. We've just got five minutes, very strict five minutes they're going to present to a panel of four judges and the winning team will get a prize. Some of these challenges are actually very complicated and to get the message and ideas across inside that time frame is actually quite a tricky thing to do. It takes quite a lot of skill. We have Costello Medical Consulting. I feel a bit nervous because I'm the one who has to present it so I hope I can manage to do it in the short time we were given. Our idea is that the intern goes back and builds up something in order to educate the people about the sickness so that this does not happen like that before. There will be some psychosocial training exactly, to go to the communities. Today I'm going to introduce you to the solutions that we have found for the challenges that Health Partners International are facing. When we looked at it and we spoke with our mentor the first thing we asked her was actually who is the target audience for this. Most of these suggestions are very low cost. I mean for example putting a link on a resources tab on an existing website. I'm sure we can manage that for free. For those remote communities that aren't easily accessible by traditional means basically the services that can be provided to reach these people that would otherwise not be reached would be immense on impact. That's the first step. And finally you go there and you learn as you go. Thank you. I've been thinking about that every single second of this week so it's really really cool. I really enjoy that. The challenge given to us by Medic Mobile was to identify an approach for improving the accuracy or efficiency of patient ID capture that is most importantly feasible with the constraints of SIM card applications. So going up there to do the presentation I personally found terrified. I always get nervous in front of crowds especially seeing how good some of the other presentations where I was nervous, very nervous going up. But it felt good. We had rehearsed really hard, we had practised a lot and we believed in our idea so I hope that came through in the final presentation. First you need a mobile phone for the SIM card. So our solution is to use fingerprint scanners in conjunction with mobile phones as a way to uniquely identify patients in the field in remote and rural areas. The advantages of doing this is that it means that a single biometric scan can identify a person, pull out their health records from previous visits ensure better continuity of care and you can potentially scan someone's fingerprint, send it via mobile phone and then get an SMS 30 seconds later saying this child needs a second round of diphtheria vaccinations. That can improve vaccines, reduce wastage and potentially save lives. A big round of applause for all of the participants so far. Thank you. It's been brilliant. We're all really, really pleased with it because what's interesting is just getting these students from different sectors, they're studying different things, coming together. They have really produced interesting innovative ideas. When you see all the network and you see a lot of excitement and a lot of discussion about the ideas and you can see all these debates going on afterwards, people connecting and people kind of thinking of collaborations how they can move forward and that's really what our events are for is connecting people, showing people that they can move their ideas forward if you know the right people and so tonight it was nice to see people chatting about their ideas and there's obviously a lot of business card swapping so you can see it's going to be built on in the future. The winner for the Innovation Week for Global Health Hackday Challenge is the Medic Mobile team. I feel really excited maybe a little bit surprised all some of the teams looked really good out there so I think we're very lucky to get it but yeah thrilled really, really thrilled. Healing really, really glad it was an exciting challenge it's good to be rewarded but it's we're delighted. Our hope is that by bringing together people from different disciplines we can find new ways to tackle some of the health care issues facing the world's most disadvantaged people. What we want is for there to be impact so each of the challenges was real and each of them was about people's lives and people's health and if they're impacted by this challenge then we will be very pleased. Please give a last round of applause for the judges, the sponsors and all of you guys. Thank you. I'd like to know. Well we should let them know.