Global Health Security Innovation Week
This year's GHS Innovation Week virtual conference took place March 12-15, 2022 during SXSW. Thank you for attending! See you in 2023.
This unprecedented conference brought together the global health security and innovation communities to define, communicate, and solve our most critical challenges in preventing, predicting, detecting, and responding to global health security threats.
The virtual event emphasized the importance of locally driven innovation in emerging ecosystems (LMICs) and promoted equitable access to technologies and resources for ensuring health security in all communities. Together participants created a road map and a call to action for creating and scaling innovative solutions to global health security challenges.
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Featuring global leaders from the health security and innovation space
A look at GHS Innovation Week 2022
The Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) hosted GHS Innovation Week 2022. Organizing partners who helped to make the conference possible are Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), Global Health Security Network, IDEO, and UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange.
Infections and disease can spread rapidly and seemingly without warning in our globally connected world, putting people anywhere and everywhere at risk with little warning. Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) was founded in 2020 and has since grown to a global network of innovators and partners worldwide who help local health solutions make a global impact.
Why did TEXGHS host GHS Innovation Week 2022?
Infections and disease can spread rapidly and seemingly without warning in our globally connected world, putting people anywhere and everywhere at risk with little warning. Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) is a well-connected community of experts dedicated to confronting current and future global health threats by fueling invention, innovation and best practices and processes in disease control and prevention. We connect innovators with partners worldwide to help local health solutions make a global impact. Global Health Security Innovation Week 2022 offered a tangible way for TEXGHS to enact its mission and bring together a large global audience of health innovators and those leading in global health security efforts so that we may all learn from each other.
Where was this event located? What is the format? Who can attend?
The event was virtual and managed within the online Swapcard environment. All were welcome to attend, and registration was free. Attendees must have access to a Wi-Fi network on a mobile device, laptop, or desktop to attend. Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) along with the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), Global Health Security Network, IDEO, and UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange have organized GHSIW 2022 virtually with speakers from across the globe.
Questions?
Please contact events@texghs.org.
What would I get out of the conference?
This event brought together the technology innovation and health security communities; sessions should help conference attendees:
- Communicate challenges faced by the GHS community
- Understand technologies used to face health security threats
- Learn about the technology innovation community
- Connect GHS and technology innovation
- Develop and scale innovative ideas for solving local and global GHS challenges
- Support the growth of the global health security innovation ecosystem
Virtual Event Experience:
GHS Innovation Week 2022 included panel discussions, solo or group presentations, pitch sessions interviews, roundtables, and interactive workshops. The team took great care to create an engaging environment for attendees that offers opportunities for networking and engaging with content. All content was viewed for registrants via the Swapcard platform.
Special Workshops:
IDEO x TEXGHS Design for One Health (March 12, 2022) human-centered design workshop focused on communicating the impact of environmental health on human health.
GHSIW + UNAIDS Demo Day (March 14, 2022): Virtual pitch event alongside South by Southwest. Organized in partnership with UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange, Tech Ranch, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and more.
Conference Topics:
GHS Innovation Week sessions addressed the themes of preparation, response, cooperation, and recovery from health security threats across the following topics:
- Health Equity and Accessibility
- Mental Health and Community Resiliency
- Public Health Solutions and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Public Policy and Communication
- One Health and Climate Change
- Vaccine Development and Distribution
- Public Private Partnerships for GHS
- Emerging Innovation Ecosystems
- Biosafety and Biosecurity
- Diagnostics and Therapeutics
- Future Health Security Threats
- Investment in GHS Innovation
ATTENDEES: This conference was free to attend as made possible by our sponsors. Topic content is of special interest to those working at the intersection of technology and health security; entrepreneurs, technologists, startups, funders, NGOs, technology investors, scientists, government representatives, technicians, healthcare professionals, students, international organization representatives, and frontline healthcare workers.
SPEAKERS: Global health security innovators, public health policy thought leaders, international organizations, government officials, philanthropists, venture capitalists, startup founders and CEOs, prominent scientific researchers, technology commercialization experts, academic thought leaders, and healthcare professionals.