Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition 2025

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

• Table of Content
• About Johns Hopkins University
• Healthcare Design Competition
• Aim and Benefits of Healthcare Design Competition
• Requirements for Healthcare Design Competition Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Healthcare Design Competition
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health is a unique and collaborative Johns Hopkins academic program conducted jointly by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. It is hosted by the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and draws upon a variety of disciplines, including epidemiology, demography, emergency and disaster medicine, health systems management, nutrition/food security, environmental engineering, mental health, political science and human rights. The Center collabo... continue reading

Healthcare Design Competition

Aim and Benefits of Healthcare Design Competition

• 1st prize: $5,000
• 2nd prize: $3,000
• 3rd prize: $1,000

Requirements for Healthcare Design Competition Qualification

1. 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
2. Project must have been started after January 1st, 2023
3. 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.
4. Applicants can submit multiple unique projects

Interview date, Process and Venue for Healthcare Design Competition

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.

1. Problem description (25%)
   • Define the problem you are addressing, the clinical/healthcare background, and why there is a need for a better solution.
2. 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.
3. Reduction to practice (25%)
   • Describe the proof-of-concept experimental results you have completed and/or renderings and photos of your prototype(s).
4. 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

How to Apply

The 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