The Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge
Key Highlights
A blended innovation challenge empowering multidisciplinary student teams to solve global health issues through creativity, collaboration, and responsible innovation.
Universities represented: TCD, QUB, UL
SensEye Shines at the 2025 Global Health Innovation Summit. At the 2025 Global Summit of the Global Consortium of Innovation and Engineering in Medicine, held at the I-Hotel Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois, Trinity College Dublin students Thomas Joyce, Emily Waldron, and Zaur Unsizada had the honor of presenting SensEye—an AI-powered solution aimed at making eye care accessible and affordable worldwide.Their participation was part of the prestigious $250,000 Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge, which featured over 50 student innovation teams from across the globe, each showcasing cutting-edge healthcare solutions with global impact.The summit hosted 456 attendees representing 33 institutions from 16 countries across 6 continents. Leaders from academia, industry, government, and philanthropy came together to shape the future of healthcare through interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.
Winners
Senseye
HexCode
Cura Compliance
Hero
Judges
Judging Criteria
Desirability
◦ Judges will consider how well the solution resonates with real user or community needs.
Feasibility
◦ While not mandatory, teams with at least one member from the TCD School of Medicine are strongly encouraged for relevance.
Innovation
◦ Judges will look for creative approaches, use of technology, or new ways of solving persistent problems.
Viability
◦ Judges will assess whether the project has a pathway to scale or further development.
Team presentation
◦ This includes storytelling, structure, design of materials, and ability to answer questions effectively.
Timeline
Demo Day Agenda
January 13
Location: Room 115, first floor, Trinity Business School
Organizers
FAQ
◦ Enhancing early disease detection
◦ Slowing/reversing disease progression in aging populations
◦ Creating low-cost diagnostic/therapeutic solutions for global scale
Future opportunities
Social Innovation Challenge 2.0
May 5, 2025
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