DPH 2025 Innovation Prize

The DPH 2025 Innovation Prize showcases leading-edge contributions that are transforming digital public health. From previous winners to this year’s judging panel, discover how innovation is being recognised and celebrated across the field.

Check the proud winners of the previous 2019 DPH Innovation Prize competition .

For detailed submission guidelines and a full list of award categories, check Call for Innovation Prize – #DPH2025.

LIST OF PITCHING TEAMS


Congratulations to all teams who were shortlisted (so far) and will be pitching their digital health innovations to our judging panel in Madeira this July!

Award CategoryAuthorsTitle
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Frederico Stock, Francisco Nogueira and Guilherme Stock (Glooma Lda.)SenseGlove – AI-Enhanced Breast Self-Exams by GloomaRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Lakshya Sharma, Vaishnavi Balaji, Alvin Katumba, Esha Mohan and Sola Adeleke (University College London, Curenetics Ltd, University Hospital Dorset)Curenetics: Predicting immunotherapy-related adverse events and hospital admissions in patients with melanoma using machine learningRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Tiago Taveira-GomesEnabling Secure and Auditable Data-Driven Innovation with Zero Trust GovernanceRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Martin Chi-Sang Wong, Jason Junjie Huang, Claire Zhong, Thomas Lam, Louis Lau and Philip Chiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)Adoption of novel technology to assist colorectal cancer detection and save livesRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Pratap Kumar, Mohamed Hussein Kahow and Rashed Shah (UCL, Health-E-Net Limited, Save the Children International)“Smart” tally sheets for generating near real-time data on immunisation campaigns in hard-to-reach areas in SomaliaRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Felix Kangwa (Nicetyfarm Technologies Limited)OptscanRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Satoko Ohmatsu and Kanako Nakamura (Digireha Inc.)Gamified Assessment DX: A Sensor-Integrated Dashboard for Functional Evaluation and Behavioral Feedback in Rehabilitation and Special EducationRead the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Gabriel Pestana and Miguel Sardinha (Setúbal Polytechnic University, Sardine Dimension – Unipessoal Lda)Precision Reasoning and Inference with Sparse Medical data for Care delivery (PRISM-Care)Read the team’s entry
Best Data
Driven
Innovation
Meghan Conroy and Jerry Winiczek (CaptureProof)AI-Enhanced Visual Biomarkers from Any Smartphone: A Scalable Framework for Precision Triage and Management in Digital Public HealthRead the team’s entry
Award CategoryAuthorsTitle
Best PartnershipCarolina Manica (Codigo Gratificante Lda)Smartwatches in the Health Monitoring of the Elderly: Madeira Quality Care Pilot ProjectRead the team’s entry
Best PartnershipBrian Li Han Wong, Sanya Rajpal and Pawan Rajpal (AdagioVR)Co-Designing Culturally Competent Digital Mental Health: A Multisector Partnership to Scale VR Therapy at the MarginsRead the team’s entry
Best PartnershipMartin Chi-Sang Wong, Jason
Junjie Huang, Claire Zhong,
Ellen Tong, Ngai-Tseung Cheung,
Clement Cheung and Wing Nam
Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hospital Authority)
The implementation of a digital health management module to optimize disease control, reduce complications, and decrease deaths among diabetes patientsRead the team’s entry
Best PartnershipLuis Duarte Andrade Ferreira,
Mónica Paula Gouveia Spínola
and Sergi Bermudez I Badia
(Musiquence Technologies, ARDITI – NOVA-LINCS, University of Madeira)
Co-Creating Solutions for Clinical and Educational NeedsRead the team’s entry
Best PartnershipPaul Reynolds, Georgiana Birjovanu, Bruna Gouveia, Guilherme Madruga,
Tiago Massoni, Jailson Correira, Bárbara Rachelli, Aisha Aldosery and Patty Kostkova (Regional Directorate of Health, Federal University of
Campina Grande (UFCG), IMIP, Centre for Digital Public Health
in Emergencies (dPHE), UCL)
Digital mobile and IoT system for Vector Borne Disease (VBD) Digital Surveillance – partnerships networks in Brazil and MadeiraRead the team’s entry
Award CategoryAuthorsTitle
Best
Scale-Up
Harald Kornfeil and Christian
González
medSpeak – A Secure Communication Platform for all Healthcare Providers and PatientsRead the team’s entry
Best
Scale-Up
Vanessa Mitchell, Kim Martin and Marla Shaivitz (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)Scaling Local Capacity for Family Planning and MNCH: The TCI University App as a Game-Changing Digital Learning PlatformRead the team’s entry
Best
Scale-Up
Thiago Matos, Erica Rinaldi, Adriana Brazão, Maria Lúcia Yamashita, Bettina Grajcer, Leandro Piquet and Angela Rios (Municipality of São Paulo, Auíri Social and Environmental Projects Ltd., University of São Paulo (USP))ModeraSP: Scaling Digital SBI to Reduce Harmful Alcohol Use in São Paulo’s Public Health SystemRead the team’s entry
Best
Scale-Up
Martin Chi-Sang Wong, Francis Chan, Siew Ng, Lin Zhang, Iris Lau and Oscar Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)Modulation of gut microbiome to improve population health using digital technologyRead the team’s entry

Venture Capitalist


Nuno Macedo

Portugal Ventures

Judging panel


Dr Femida Gwadry-Sridhar

Pulse Infoframe


Jonathan Grinbaud

UCL Innovation & Enterprise