Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition is a competition to celebrate good design in healthcare! Winners show a solid understanding of the need; the people impacted, focused problem-solving, and a great real-world solution!
Competition Tracks:
- Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems
- Global Health/ Humanitarian Design
- Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health
- Post-Surgical Infection Management
- Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
- Benefits of Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
- Requirements for Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
- Selection Process
- Application Deadline
- How to Apply
Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
| Application Deadline | January 19, 2025 |
| Value | $5,000 |
| Type | Contest |
| Sponsor | Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering |
| Gender | Men and Women |
Benefits of Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
- 1st prize: $5,000
- 2nd prize: $3,000
- 3rd prize: $1,000
Requirements for Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition
- Project must be focused on a healthcare application in either of the 4 tracks
- Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems
- Global Health/ Humanitarian Design
- Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health
- Post-Surgical Infection Management
- Project must have been started after January 1st, 2023
- Project must be driven by full-time students
- Postdoc research projects are ineligible.
- Projects that have utilized significant funding (>$100K) are ineligible.
- Projects that are not run by full-time students are ineligible. For example, projects run by startup companies or faculty are ineligible.
- Eligible full-time students include those working towards undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees (MBA, MD, etc.).
- Project teams should comprise of more than one full-time student.
- Applicants can submit multiple unique projects
Selection Process
Evaluation criteria
Design Briefs will be evaluated by following four criteria. We recommend the design brief is laid out in sections devoted to each criteria.
- Problem description (25%)
- Define the problem you are addressing, the clinical/healthcare background, and why there is a need for a better solution.
- Solution concept(s) (25%)
- Present your proposed solution with your design rationale and explain how it meets the needs of the stakeholders involved in your clinical/healthcare problem.
- Reduction to practice (25%)
- Describe the proof-of-concept experimental results you have completed and/or renderings and photos of your prototype(s).
- Pathway to implementation (25%)
- Describe the pathway that lies ahead for your project towards creating an impactful solution.
Timeline:
- January 19 – Submission of two-page proposals
- March 10 – Finalists informed
- April 12 – Final round (virtual event)
Application Deadline
January 19, 2025How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering on docs.google.com to applyThe Design Brief must be no more than 2 pages in length including figures. References can be listed as a separate page.
For more details,visit Johns Hopkins webpage