REDESIGN: A Women’s Health Hackathon to empower women with better user experience and improve health outcomes
Hosted by the Imperial College Women’s Health Network of Excellence, in collaboration with the Imperial FemTech and Design Engineering Societies, this event promotes interdisciplinary work among students and early career professionals to solve the foremost women’s health challenges. The event will comprise various workshops, talks and networking sessions.
Objectives:
- To raise awareness of gender gaps in healthcare and the entirety of women’s health, including but also beyond the traditional focus on sexual and reproductive health.
- To encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among design, engineering, medical, and business students to innovate solutions to the foremost issues affecting the health of women today.
- To innovate the format of hackathons by promoting user-centred design in solution development, including more contexts and user experiences in the problem-solving process.
Four tracks:
- Cardiometabolic health
- Brain and mental health
- Gynaecological health
- Maternal health
Participants:
The event will host up to 80 students and early career professionals, who will form teams of 4-5 people to come up with solutions to specific women’s health challenges.
Judging Panel:
- Dr Shikta Das, RWE Manager, AstraZeneca
- Dr Karim Sandid, Co-Founder, Chief Medical & Product Officer, Kuma Health
- Rebecca Leppard, Founder & CEO, Upgrading Women Marketing
- Sarah Fox, Senior Service Designer, TPXimpact
- David Robson, Lead Service Designer, TPX Impact
Prize:
- Cash prize
- Free coaching on marketing strategy post-event, provided by Rebecca Leppard
- One-year free membership to the FemHealth Insights mentoring program
- In addition, every participant will receive a 50% discount to the FemHealth Insights mentoring program