Hack for Health Equity 2026
A 48-hour global public-health hackathon co-organised with Young WFPHA and YAL Madrid: 500+ applications, 30 selected teams, ~100 participants. Winning teams NotAlone, Hygieia and UnScroll carried their work towards Geneva and Cape Town.
How selection worked
- Step 1500+applications
- Step 2~100participants
- Step 330teams
- Step 43winning teams into mentoring
What was built
Multidisciplinary teams of AI builders and public-health professionals worked on mental health, media for health, obesity and wider public-health challenges over 48 hours. The three winning projects: NotAlone, Hygieia and UnScroll.
Where it landed
Winners get three months of entrepreneurship and specialist mentoring, with presentation pathways connected to the World Health Assembly in Geneva and the WFPHA Global Meeting in Cape Town.
Our role
Co-organizer alongside YAL Madrid and Young WFPHA: programme design, mentor recruitment, and the Linz participant cohort.
500+ applications · 30 teams · ~100 participants · 48 hours
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