List of hackathons about health in 2017

Are you interested in disaster relief? MD5 -- the US Department of Defense's National Security Technology Accelerator -- invites you to come and recognize finalists from the recent MD5 Hack Austin. Participants in the hackathon were challenged to use their creative and technical skills to create solutions to challenges of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. You'll get to see finalists from the hack, pitch their concepts to a VIP jury panel, for final winning selections.

Spanish hackers! Are you interested in how technology can be used for the good of all people? The Cátedra Telefónica Universidad de León invites you to sign up to participate in the HackForGood 2017 - León. This hackathon will be held at the same time in cities across Spain. Come on your own or as a member of a team -- collaborate to create innovative technology that can solve a soical challenge and help people across Spain and the world!

Hobbyists, IT students, designers, IT professionals and laymen in and around the city of Gent! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Datadive Apps For Ghent hackathon. Come as part of a team or join a team at the event. You'll be challenged to use open data sets for both sports and health to build an innovative new app. Present your project to a jury and compete to win a prize.

Hackers in Newark and New Jersey! Do you have ideas on how technology can help improve personal safety for women? The City of Newark's Office of Information and Technology invites you to sign up to participate in the Women’s Safety Hackathon. You'll have three months to create a demonstration technology that that will improve safety for women in Newark. The winner will receive prize monies to build out a prototype for deployment and for one year's maintenance.

Undergraduate students from all over Bangladesh! Interested in helping improve nutrition on the country? You're invited to apply to participate in the Nutrition Hackathon to be held in conjunction with the Nutrition Olympiad. A small group of applicants will be select to compete. If selected, you will be challenged to collaborate with their fellow participants to come up with technology solutions -- a web tool or Android app -- to help promote Nutrition awareness. You'll present your project to a jury, with the top three being awarded cash prizes.

Graduate students of public policy, public health, urban planning, engineering, and computer science in the Greater Toronto area! The Policy and Innovation Initiative invites you to sign up to participate in Hack 4 Health! You'll be challenged to apply your technical skills and creativity to design and prototype a solution to one of three burning public health issues: 1.Alleviating pressures in downtown hospitals, particularly with the expected growth downtown. 2.Rural Service Delivery, or 3.Exploring the viability of alternative models for delivering medicine.

Engineers, designers, ICT-specialists in and around Eindhoven! Are you interested in how technology can help people who are struggling with disabilities or other setbacks? Come and showcase your creativity and skills -- in collaboration with like minded individuals. Demonstrate your mastery of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, gaming-technologies, or robotics to help make Holland a safer, friendly and helpful place to live for people with disabilities.

Hackers, coders in and around Los Angeles! Are you interested in using technology to address medical needs? The UCLA Business of Science Center invites you to sign up to participate in Inventathon 2017. This event will challenge you to create new and innovative solutions to a given medical need. It will be your choice as to the form your project takes -- an app, a device, a website, or whatever demonstrates your concept.

Hackers in the Greater Toronto area! You're invited to sign up to participate in DementiaHack Toronto 2017. At the hackathon, you'll be challenged to conceive and develop life-improving hardware and software solutions for those living with dementia and their caregivers. You can choose to address one of the following four challenge sets (CS): »CS1: Help diagnosed individuals »CS2: Help family caregivers »CS3: Help institutional caregivers/clinicians »CS4: Help scientists and researchers

Hackers in the Bay Area! Interested in progress in neuroscience? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Brainhack Global San Francisco 2017 location of the global Brainhack event. You'll get the opportunity to collaborate with similarly interested brain scientists on innovative projects related to neuroscience.