2016 saw the launch of the University of Dundee’s Global Health Challenge, and in 2017 as part of the Induction we invited ‘Open Ears’ to present their project and its process. Open Ears were voted the winners of 2016 by all…
“Create a Collaborative Mind-set” – IDEO As GHC17 problem solvers, you’ve been tasked in identifying insights and opportunities to bring about positive change for real people experiencing very real and complex issues. Key to the success of this will be…
Day one of 2017’s Global Health Challenge kicked off with vim and vigour this week as students, sponsors and staff considered challenges from eight innovative local organisations; The Archie Foundation; Deaf Links; Dundee International Women’s Centre; Faith in Community; Hearing…
Hello! Welcome everyone to Global Health Challenge! It is a delight to welcome you. My name is Louise and I am one of a large team across the University who have joined together to design and make happen the Global…
Following the success of the 2016 Global Health Challenge (GHC) we’re ready to get started with a set of new challenges for GHC17. It’s fair to say we were overwhelmed by the creativity, energy and inspiration of our students to…
The pressing global health challenges we face today demand that we think differently, and the University of Dundee’s Global Health Challenge initiative is fuelled by this exigency, this need. Indeed, it’s one of the reasons why a process of…
In a previous post we shared some advice and links to helpful resources on how to go out about framing the challenge your team is working on. Once you’ve done this you might find it useful to start to look at…
This first week is about exploring and one of the first tasks is to frame your team’s challenge. A number of questions were created during last week’s Barcamp which should help you to do this. We encourage all of the…
Welcome to the University of Dundee Global Health Challenge (GHC). Over at 5-week period (18th October – 15th November 2017) we will be running our first set of GHC projects as students from across our academic schools come together to…