It is more clear than ever that health systems lack transparency, trust, and meaningful improvement to provide access and quality to all.
It is more clear than ever that the effect of public health challenges are felt most among people of color, indigenous, rural, LGBTQ and so many other underserved communities.
It is more clear than ever that now is the time to accelerate public health innovation through entrepreneurship to bring power to the people.
The Public Health Innovation Accelerator is a 10-week program that transforms early-stage ideas and prototypes into market ready ventures, with public health impact embedded in business model. Venture teams are brought into a network of mentors, speakers, and consultants who support ventures in their development.
8 ventures each presented their solutions to an audience of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and potential health focused partners in a 4-minute pitch with a 5-minute Q&A. Judges scored the ventures and announced the top 3 for monetary awards.
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Mendü is a wellness and mental health platform that offers therapeutic audio-based prompts and exercises for underserved women to better their mental health. Mendü’s goal is to change the way mental health is managed by utilizing MLS and AI technology.
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
A zero-stigma, contextual, multi-modal mental health AI platform for college-age youth. Jeeva is a smartphone app that does screening for depression, mood and anxiety and delivers appropriate psycho, social and behavioral coping skills in real- time. It delivers both educational content and CBT-based interventions in easy to learn text & peer-partnered discussions.
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Medical Director
Director of Engineering
Yrikka is the ranked marketplace for buying, selling and scoring AI. The score generated by Yrikka’s proprietary scoring mechanism provides an all encompassing overview of the real-world readiness of an AI technology. In the context of healthcare, this score evaluates the potential impact that the technology can have on health equity.
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
HEQ360 helps healthcare organizations address health disparities through a data-driven identification, and prioritization of target population for customized outreach activities and interventions. The vision is to create an ecosystem of integrated stakeholders, data sources, and service providers to achieve health equity goals.
Founder
A postpartum hemorrhage AR simulator to improve patient outcomes in low resource countries. Maternal Preservation aims to reduce mortality rates from these situations by making training more accessible with lower costs.
Developer
Internal Medicine Resident Physician
Developer
MD Candidate
XZEVN is an AI platform that helps businesses measure and analyze data to increase employee loyalty, reduce turnover, and boost performance.
CEO
COO
Doctors Under Radar strives to increase awareness of physician mental health and suicide and re-evaluate how physician suicide attempt risk factors are assessed to enhance preventive measures by developing training programs for medical administrators and personnel to assure physician psychological safety within the workplace.
Founder
COO & Co-Founder
KELLS provides accessible, high quality dental screening through the combination of clinicians and AI, making world class dental care accessible to everyone.
Co-Founder, CEO
Co-Founder
ShockTalk is a culturally tailored, and AI-assisted, telemental health platform, connecting Indigenous clients to Indigenous therapists trained in cultural humility.
CEO & President
Skin Releaf is the only tele-dermatology platform for people of color that provides virtual consultations with dermatologists, and tracks the changes in the user’s skin.
CEO
Marketer
UI/UX Designer
Yrikka is the ranked marketplace for buying, selling and scoring AI. The score generated by Yrikka’s proprietary scoring mechanism provides an all encompassing overview of the real-world readiness of an AI technology. In the context of healthcare, this score evaluates the potential impact that the technology can have on health equity.
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
HEQ360 helps healthcare organizations address health disparities through a data-driven identification, and prioritization of target population for customized outreach activities and interventions. The vision is to create an ecosystem of integrated stakeholders, data sources, and service providers to achieve health equity goals.
Founder
A postpartum hemorrhage AR simulator to improve patient outcomes in low resource countries. Maternal Preservation aims to reduce mortality rates from these situations by making training more accessible with lower costs.
Developer
Internal Medicine Resident Physician
Developer
MD Candidate
XZEVN is an AI platform that helps businesses measure and analyze data to increase employee loyalty, reduce turnover, and boost performance.
CEO
COO
Doctors Under Radar strives to increase awareness of physician mental health and suicide and re-evaluate how physician suicide attempt risk factors are assessed to enhance preventive measures by developing training programs for medical administrators and personnel to assure physician psychological safety within the workplace.
Founder
COO & Co-Founder
KELLS provides accessible, high quality dental screening through the combination of clinicians and AI, making world class dental care accessible to everyone.
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Deputy Director Evidence for Action
Executive Visionary, The Dream Center Harlem
Entrepreneurship professor, start up mentor, angel investor
Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, and Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
Investment Analyst, Village Capital
Executive Visionary, The Dream Center Harlem
Managing Director, Healthcare Banking, MUFG
We are passionate about cultivating entrepreneurs and connecting innovation opportunities and resources in underserved communities that can most benefit from innovation. Technology, systems innovations, and new business models focused on the social and environmental determinants of health and tailored to community needs are necessary for achieving ambitious public health goals and narrowing health disparities. We believe in a trans-disciplinary approach to public health innovation by bringing entrepreneurs together with mentors, public health experts, systems change experts, tech partners, investors and researchers from a wide range of fields who are dedicated to helping communities transform ideas into reality.
Participating ventures come from any sector and produce public health impact. Venture teams can be a nonprofit, for-profit or social venture. Teams are made up of all backgrounds and disciplines. Ventures do not have to be in the health sector or be made up of health professionals to qualify. Whether participants are scientists, lawyers, marketers, engineers, artists, students or teachers, they all become public health entrepreneurs through this accelerator.
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