Africa Oxford Health Innovation Platform
The Africa Oxford Health Innovation Platform (AfOx-HIP) is a multi-disciplinary programme to support African innovators develop new solutions to Africa’s health challenges.
AfOx Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scheme 2023 now closed.
The Africa Oxford Health Innovation Platform connects research to industry to tackle prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment through impact investment and innovation. AfOx-HIP is a University of Oxford collaborative platform supported by key researchers and led by the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx).
AfOx-HIP is an extension of Africa-Oxford collaborations aimed at connecting research to industry to solve intractable societal challenges. AfOx-HIP helps ideas come to life as real solutions to big challenges through innovation and entrepreneurship by pursuing a broader purpose for sustainable futures. The shifting societal perceptions aligned to creating and sustaining value in the world provide an opportunity for promoting pursuit of purpose through impact investment and innovation.
We work across Africa
AfOx-HIP is open to work in any scientific discipline, including outside life sciences and engineering sciences, and any type of technology leading to the creation of solutions towards disease prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment.
Examples of technologies include:
Therapeutics - Vaccines - Devices - Diagnostics
Solutions with high impact potential that offer opportunities for transformative health delivery in Africa will be prioritised. Solutions aimed at reducing the high probability of premature deaths from non-communicable diseases amongst African populations, optimising diagnostic and prognostic tests in African contexts, novel diagnostic tools to increase resilience to endemic diseases, and zoonotic disease-related solutions are highly encouraged.
Applications from female and under-represented innovator/entrepreneurs are highly encouraged.
AfOx-HIP Partners
AfOx-HIP is a collaboration between AfOx and key partners including: Science for Africa Foundation, The Royal Academy of Engineering, The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Foundry, TORCH, the Said Business School Africa Initiative and Reuben College, Oxford.
What is on offer?
AfOx-HIP will work with African innovators in the co-development of skills ranging from creative problem solving, translational research, entrepreneurship, and venture acceleration.
AfOx-HIP will identify outstanding emerging African researchers and innovators, proposing new solutions for health and facilitate their interaction with partners across Oxford, for the AfOx Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scheme.
Successful applicants will benefit from a relevant and robust teaching course on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health for Africa. The course is delivered through a series of web-based sessions, available to all 50 candidates, creating an interactive network, including the use of virtual workrooms.
At the end of the virtual course, an enhanced programme for 15 candidates with projects with the highest potential for further development, will be provided (top 15 of the 50 projects). The 15 innovators will be awarded AfOx Innovation Fellowship for personalised support in Oxford to meet specific needs for mentorship and technical collaborative support.
The Innovation Fellows will join an alumni network for AfOx Innovation fellows to facilitate continued engagement with Oxford and its wider network.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The FAQs provide important pointers to requirements for the application. Please read through them before completing an application.
How to apply
The 2023 call for applications for the Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scheme is now closed.