Applications are now available for the 2024 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition.Open to any student-led team that has developed a health-related solution. All nations. Every academic discipline. A competition to highlight good healthcare design! Winners demonstrate a thorough awareness of the issue, the individuals affected, focused problem-solving, and an excellent real-world solution!
Competition Tracks:
- Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems
- Global Health/ Humanitarian Design
- Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health
- Post-Surgical Infection Management
Eligibility:
- 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, 2022
- 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
Format:
The Design Brief must be no more than 2 pages in length including figures. References can be listed as a separate page.
- Use an Arial, Helvetica, Palatino Linotype, or Georgia typeface, a black font color, and a font size of 11 points or larger. (A Symbol font may be used to insert Greek letters or special characters; the font size requirement still applies.)
- Type density, including characters and spaces, must be no more than 15 characters per inch. Type may be no more than six lines per inch. Use standard paper size (8 ½” x 11). Use at least one-half inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right) for all pages. No information should appear in the margins.
- Figures, plots, and/or photos are highly recommended but are counted towards the page limit.
- References can be included in a separate page and are not part of the two-page requirement
