List of hackathons about health in 2017

Are you passionate about disaster relief? MD5 -- the US Department of Defense's National Security Technology Accelerator -- invites you to signup to participate in the MD5 hackathon/austin_W17. You'll be challenged to use your creative and technical skills to collaborate on solving challenges of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. You'll get to showcase your hardware and/or software skills to create solutions in the areas of Logistics & Planning, Communications, and Water & Power.

Medical professionals, community workers, developers, entrepreneurs, artists, educators, business professionals, students, everyday people and more! The World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community and the Commonwealth Youth Health Network invite you to participate in the 2017 African Healthcare Challenge. The Challenge is a high energy weekend event where participants team to brainstorm solutions to the real world problems of healthcare organizations and institutions in Africa. You don't have to be in London to participate! You can take part virtually.

Technology and engineering college students in Illinois! The IIT Institute of Design invites you to come and participate in the Code for the Kids hackathon. During this 2-day event, you'll be challenged to design and prototype innovative technology solutions that are going to help improve the lives of children and families in the Illinois foster network.

Data scientists, programmers, technologists, activists, analysts, policy makers — in fact anyone and everyone who is interested in air quality! ODI Leeds invites you to participate in #AirHack, a 2-day event working with the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to explore air quality — the problems, the data, the solutions. You don't need to be an expert on data or digital technology — you just need to be interested in how Defra datasets might be used for the civic good.

Developers, designers, entrepreneurs! Are you interested in creating accessibility solutions for people with disabilities and their therapists and caregivers? Remarkable invites you to sign up to hack solutions for some of the everyday challenges that those people have identified! It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an experienced business person, you'll be able to network and collaborate with innovative, creative and like-minded individuals. You'll be part of a team that will create functioning prototypes of radically great accessibility solutions. Winning's not everything, but the winning team will get cash and cool prizes and a slot in the Remarkable Accelerator!

Students from universities across the States! You're invited to sign up to participate in the UTA Medical Hackathon 2017. You'll collaborate with like minded individuals to create innovative ideas on solving a specific problem related to finding a cure for cancer.

Student and professional hackers! Interested in Smart City solutions? Creative Valley invites you to participate in a hackathon to propose ideas to make the cities of Wallonia smarter with sustainable neighborhoods that utilize things like alternative waste systems, shared gardens and more! You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to design and prototype an app solution that will make the city of Mons more connected, greener, and more sustainable.

Students, engineers, developers, programmers, scientists! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Big Data Hackathon, San Diego. You'll be challenged to design and build an app, platform, and/or technology that uses the provided datasets to deliver a compelling public health solution.

Designers, programmers, engineers, entrepreneurs! FKP invites you to participate in the Reality Reboot Hackathon. Themes for the hackathon's challenges will fall into 3 categories: »REBOOT HEALTHCARE »REBOOT DESIGN! »REBOOT AR/VR

University student hackers in the Greater Toronto area! TechXplore invites you to participate in the Deep Health Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and implement machine learning algorithms on MedChart medical data. Your project will be expected to create data baselines and also develop new insights into what the data is revealing.