TTI Global Impact Awards
Healthcare & Wellbeing: Our Awards Areas and Targets
Technological advances need to be supported in order to guarantee mental wellness support to all humans, eliminate the spread of epidemics, reduce global maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births and neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births.
The “Healthcare & Wellbeing” category of the TTI Global Impact Awards looks at how to transition the entire sector into a sustainable paradigm by supporting innovation and research on the topic of healthcare & wellbeing, as well as supporting provision and access to the global population.
The award winner for 2022: Meru Health - a step-by-step guide for improving mental health
1. Innovation and Research
Target: Prevention and/or reduction of mental health disease
→ Metric: Impact of holistic lifestyle measures, practices and approaches
→ Metric: Develop and/or invest into medtech and/or healthtech
→ Metric: Impact of and/or invest in research into the use of psychedelics
Target: End epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases
→ Metric: Advanced research and investment into education
Target: Technological advancements to address women’s health
→ Metric: Increased Femtech research
→ Metric: Research and provision of reproductive health and fertility solutions, period-tracking applications, pregnancy and nursing care
2. Provision
Target: Reduce the health workers gap
→ Metric: Training of health care providers, including doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, dentists, physiotherapists, laboratory professionals, and healthcare administrative supportive workers (# of people)
Target: Quality health services provision
→ Metric: Investment into research of the needs of people regionally (medicines, vaccines and technologies) ($)
→ Metric: Increased quality of education of the health workforce (# of people)
3. Access
Target: Equitable access to healthcare for the elderly, people of colour and women
→ Metric: Increase and improve last mile healthcare delivery
→ Metric: Provide links between the healthcare network to healthcare delivery and the entire system of people
→ Metric: Link personally generated healthcare data (wearables, etc.) with and between providers, and people.
Target: Reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 2030 to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
→ Metric: Access and reliable transport to facilities with skilled personnel (# of people, km)
Target: End preventable deaths of newborns and under 5-mortality to at least less than 25 per 1,000 by 2030
→ Metric: Access and reliable transport to facilities with skilled personnel (# of people, km)
Target: Reduce 1/3 of the premature mortality ratio from non-communicable diseases
→ Metric: Treatment of mental health and substance abuse
Target: Universal access to health facilities, including sexual and reproductive health
→ Metric: Universal health coverage (financial risk protection), access to quality health services and access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines
Target: Universal access to safe water and sanitation; Safe and sustainable fresh water supply
→ Metric: Implementation of water resource management and water-use efficient systems
Target: Well-being in the workplace
→ Metric: Ensuring mental and physical health and well-being of employees