Today, the Hon. @randeepssarai announced a CAD $200M re-#investment in GCC. We're grateful for Canada's renewed commitment in strengthening global health innovation and building a safer, more secure future for all. ➡️https://t.co/mwo8oI9FKa #GlobalHealth#HealthInnovaiton
🧩 Play is not a luxury for children.
Through Play Learn Thrive, Grand Challenges Canada and @LEGOfoundation are supporting children’s development and education in emergency settings.
👉Learn more: https://t.co/J1JDQwpMrG
#InternationalDayOfPlay
#CaseStudy: Helping 500,000 babies a year. That’s the target @Community_Lab
is now within reach of — after saving an estimated 10,682 newborn lives across 363 public facilities in six Indian states. Learn more: https://t.co/s46AevrGTK @SpringImpact@CanadaDev#GlobalHealth
Imagine missing school just due to your period. This #MenstrualHygieneDay, Canada is breaking barriers and keeping girls in class. It is helping scale innovative @BeGirlOrg panties and backing youths in Ghana, whose efforts led to 6.6 million pads being distributed.
@OxfamQuebec
#CaseStudy: @BeGirlOrg 's scale breakthrough came from letting go of the model that started it all. What began as a product company became an integrated platform. Explore more here: https://t.co/9419Ri8ygk #WorldMenstrualHygieneDay#MHDay2026
#CaseStudy: Healthy Entrepreneurs' scale breakthrough came from a simple insight: Community Health Workers already exist, are already trusted, and are already in the hardest-to-reach communities. Explore more: https://t.co/D3FOTGrEsB @CanadaDev@SpringImpact
💡 We're underinvesting in one of the most powerful economic assets of our time: the human brain. On the sidelines of #SkollWF, we convened a global roundtable on brain capital — and left with a clear mandate to act. Read the key takeaways👉 https://t.co/YHlYTsDeF8 #BrainCapital
#CaseStudy: Karma's scale breakthrough came from designing around the constraints of rural healthcare rather than waiting for them to change. Explore more here: https://t.co/SFrZeYPIFM @SpringImpact@CanadaDev#Innovation
🎧 Hear our CEO, Dr. Karlee Silver, on the Discovery Group podcast, sharing insights on how social profit #innovation is rooted in communities, strengthened through partnership, and scaled to drive systems change and deliver real-world impact. Listen now! https://t.co/9nrTK6QY3a
Kicking off #WHA79 with @CanadaDev, @DOHgovph
& @gchallenges at “Innovations for Impact,” highlighting how innovation is bringing TB services closer to communities that need them most 🌍 From digital tools to people-centered approaches, #TBREACH is helping expand access to TB...
#Canada 🇨🇦 proudly partnered with @UNITAID alongside #Kenyan manufacturers, @GChallenges and @WHO to expand life-saving oxygen access in Kenya 🇰🇪. New market-shaping oxygen plants are coming online soon - boosting local supply and saving lives! #CanadaInKenya 🇨🇦🤝🇰🇪
Recently, the Government of Canada announced renewed funding for Grand Challenges Canada on the floor of the House of Commons through the Honourable Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State for International Development. Stay tuned for more #CanadianInnovationWeek content!🇨🇦
What unlocks #scale? @SpringImpact and GCC have captured what moved 4 global health #innovations from effective interventions to meaningful scale. 👉 Read their stories: https://t.co/2DvgD6F0on @CanadaDev
The financing landscape is changing. Kenya and Canada agree on the importance of diversifying partnerships.
Offered remarks on the key role that philanthropy can play in bringing health innovations to scale.
Thanks @gchallenges and PS @Profshaukat for a great event.
🧩 Play is a powerful driver of children's learning, healing, and development. GCC & @LEGOfoundation invest in play-based innovations supporting children's development in #Lebanon, #Jordan, #Uganda & #Kenya. Explore more 👉 https://t.co/tyFE9kgvJr
Very pleased to join Africa Regional Convening co-hosted by @gchallenges Cha🇨🇦, @SciforAfrica@ClintonGlobal 🇺🇸 and @wellcometrust 🇬🇧 This convening brought together a small, select group of leaders to do something different. The goal is to concentrate more capital behind fewer, higher-impact initiatives. By aligning around shared priorities, sharing risk, and coordinating existing and planned commitments, participants can unlock the kind of systemic, government-led change that no single funder can achieve alone. I provided Government 🇰🇪 perspectives and assurances of our commitment towards domestic financing - both public and private sector aiming at atleast 1% of GDP towards #Science, #Research and #Innovation. Encouraged research and innovation towards commercialization through scale out and scale out. Shared our vision in establishing research chairs and looking forward to embracing the grand challenge initiative in various thematic areas.
@Afroscientist@nacosti@nrfkenya@KENIAupdates@ScienceRI_Kenya@OfficePCS_KE@TWASnews@AASciences@ISC #Science4Society #Impact
Together, we can scale impactful solutions in cervical cancer elimination, NCDs, digital health, climate & health, and primary care innovation. 🌎
Looking forward to advancing concrete partnerships.
Productive meeting with Met Rahul Chandran of @gchallenges to explore collaboration opportunities.
We share key health priorities across the Americas 🌎.