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MIT Solve, in collaboration with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, seeks solutions that will offer new ways of measuring primary health care performance improvement in low- and middle-income countries. To that end, this Challenge seeks novel and improved methods that:

• Employ unconventional or proxy data sources to inform primary health care performance improvement;
• Provide improved measurement methods that are low cost, fit-for-purpose, shareable across information systems, and streamlined for data collectors;
• Leverage existing systems, networks, and workflows to streamline the collection and interpretation of data to support meaningful use of primary health care data;
• Provide actionable, accountable, and accessible insights for health care providers, administrators, and/or funders that can be used to optimize the performance of primary health care; and
• Balance the opportunity for frontline health workers to participate in performance improvement efforts with their primary responsibility as care providers.

A total of $500,000 USD is available to fund up to 8 projects. Projects will be funded in two categories: early-stage, and growth.

The full call is available here.

Deadlines

Internal: August 2, 2022 at 4:30pm. Contact email is ird@dal.ca. For additional resources, click here for guidance on internal deadlines and submission processes.

Funder: August 9, 2022 at 9pm AST.