Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition 2025

Tracks

• Solutions for Advanced Health System
• Global Health Humanitarian Design
• Healthcare Apps/Digital Health

Award Information

• For Each Track:
  • 1st Prize: $5,000
  • 2nd Prize: $3,000
  • 3rd Prize: $1,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Project must be focused on a healthcare application in either of the 4 tracks
  • Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems
  • Global Health/ Humanitarian Design
  • Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health
  • Post-Surgical Infection Management
• Project must have been started after January 1st, 2023
• Project must be driven by full-time students
  • Postdoc research projects are ineligible.
  • Eligible full-time students include those working towards undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees (MBA, MD, etc.).
  • Project teams should comprise of more than one full-time student.
• Applicants can submit multiple unique projects

Ineligibility Criteria

• Projects that have utilized significant funding (>$100K) are ineligible.
• Projects that are not run by full-time students are ineligible. For example, projects run by startup companies or faculty are ineligible.

Application Requirements

• The Design Brief must be no more than 2 pages in length including figures. References can be listed as a separate page.
• Use an Arial, Helvetica, Palatino Linotype, or Georgia typeface, a black font color, and a font size of 11 points or larger. (A Symbol font may be used to insert Greek letters or special characters; the font size requirement still applies.)
• Type density, including characters and spaces, must be no more than 15 characters per inch. Type may be no more than six lines per inch. Use standard paper size (8 ½” x 11). Use at least one-half inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right) for all pages. No information should appear in the margins.
• Figures, plots, and/or photos are highly recommended but are counted towards the page limit.
• References can be included in a separate page and are not part of the two-page requirement.

For more information, visit CBID.