Futures in Health
Hospital & Health Care - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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The Futures in Health project is a university-wide start-up Incubator and Accelerator which aims to engage UCT students in identifying, deconstructing and developing practical, business-like solutions to the contextually-relevant healthcare problems currently facing South Africa. The priority is to create maximum social impact via student-led start-up companies using both the for profit (fp) and the not for profit (nfp) models. The programme presents a structured environment in which to incubate 'disruptive' ideas which address the challenges that test our society. By providing a platform for multi-skilled student working groups to conceptualise new models of service provision or products which are both evidence-based and economically affordable. By using upskilling in cutting -edge, modern concepts such as design thinking, health economics, digital health innovation, and agile entrepreneurship and providing the enabling academic and financial plus coaching and mentoring support for student groups to develop innovative solutions, we hope to give agency in re-imagining what healthcare SA 2.1 might look like. Futures in Health is affiliated with a wide range of active strategic partners in government, corporate and academic spaces which includes groups at the UCT Graduate School of Business (Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking and the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship), partners in industry (Discovery Health and the Boston Consulting Group), and The Western Cape Department of Health.
