List of hackathons about health in 2016

Come and participate in Global Goals Jam. Help design an intervention that can help achieve short-term targets that support the Global Goals. Edinburgh Living Lab is hosting a branch event of the Global Goals Jam that will focus on Goals 7, 11 and 12: »Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all »Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable »Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Developers, engineers, scientists, designers, tech innovators and college students! Collaborate in teams to produce prototype solutions to address climate change adaptation and improve climate resilience. Come and apply your creativity to producing solutions to climate-related risks and disasters. The Hack The Climate Business Unusual hackathon is focused on non-traditional issues, such as: »Increasing costs for natural resources, raw materials »Water and energy security »Threats to human health and life »Greater exposure to natural disasters, changing weather patterns »Transportation risks »Risk of flood and drought »Threats to ecosystems and biodiversity »Infrastructure failure »Communication systems

Come and participate in the Citizens Open Data Hackathon in Barcelona. You'll work on challenges relevant to the city, such as the Health Services District and Cultural District. Analyze the challenges and collaborate with fellow participants to propose and develop solutions that have a clear impact on citizens' needs. The hackathon marks the start of the OpenDataLab Barcelona, part of the EU project Open4Citizens an initiative to find new uses of open data for the benefit of citizens in European cities.

create to use the margin of the UN General Assembly, the GODAN summit hackathon will be a tool used to urge world leaders to release their data sets on agriculture and nutrition, which will aide in ending world hunger but defining the problem and allowing leaders to set goals. The goal of the hackathon is to provided example solutions for the question: "How might we allow for better utilization, collection, and/or accessibility to open data such that we can improve our food system and our chances at food security?"

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

Medical and engineering postgrad students at the University of Melbourne! If you're interested in medical device innovation, then come participate in the MEDevice - Medical Device Innovation Hackathon. Over the course of four weeks, you'll have the opportunity to network and form teams, learn computer-aided design skills to 3D print and rapidly prototype your ideas, culminating in a business pitch to a panel of experts and judges for the chance to win an awesome prize! Students will be aided in their product innovation by mentors in weekly sessions.

The Merck For Health event continues in Rome. This open innovation project was initiated with the aim of identifying new technology solutions in the area of healthcare. Winning teams will have a chance to present their ideas toMerck and H-FARM management. Winning teams will progress to the final stage with a chance to be awarded a € 25,000 grant.

Coders with a mind for social responsibility! Sign up for the IEEE ISC2 Smart City Hackathon. Collaborate with like-minded individuals on one of two tracks: -> Help develop mobility apps for the implementation of Trento Smart City -> Develop smart and original mobile phone apps to help people in Southern Africa Come along and contribute! All you need to bring is yourself, your laptop, your enthusiasm, and your coding skills.

Healthcare? Big Data? Healthcare hackers, come and collaborate on open data/health data.

Integration thinkers, developers, makers and entrepreneurs! Take your ideas from paper and turn them into reality. Participate in the Hardware Hackaton and create high-impact solutions to real challenges of the healthcare market.