Grand Challenges Canada

Empowering innovators to solve the world’s most pressing global health and development challenges in LMICs and Canada. FR @GrandsDefisCA

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

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

[Development Canada @CanadaDev]

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

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

#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

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

#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

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

💡 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

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

#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

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

🎧 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

[Stop TB Partnership @StopTB]

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 in Kenya, Somalia and Uganda @CanHCKenya]

#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 🇨🇦🤝🇰🇪

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

#Casestudy: @Community_Lab scale breakthrough came from taking a proven practice and embedding it into routine care.  Developed by GCC and @Springimpact. Explore more here: https://t.co/WyEjbbPxkO @CanadaDev #GlobalHealth #Innovation

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

How does a #Canadian medical X-ray system end up in space? For #CanadianInnovationWeek, we’re celebrating a bold idea from Canada with global impact. 🇨🇦🚀 Learn more: https://t.co/ltUL4cQOeD @CanadaDev #CIW26 #Innovation

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

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!🇨🇦

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

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

[Joshua Tabah @JoshuaTabah]

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.

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

🧩 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

[Shaukat Abdulrazak,PhD,EBS @Profshaukat]

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

[Jarbas Barbosa @DirOPSPAHO]

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.

[Jarbas Barbosa @DirOPSPAHO]

Productive meeting with Met Rahul Chandran of @gchallenges to explore collaboration opportunities.
We share key health priorities across the Americas 🌎.

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

Last week, our team was in #Oxford, UK, at the #SkollWF and side events! Here is a recap 📽️ #GlobalHealth #Innovation #CatalyticCapital

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

A huge win for global health! 🇨🇦Canada’s $190M commitment to @theGFF will strengthen life‑saving maternal and child health initiatives.

Learn more: https://t.co/9BnqNv0UwD

@CanadaDev

[Results Canada @ResultsCda]

Today, Secretary of State @randeepssarai announced that Canada would commit an initial $190 million to the Global Financing Facility (@theGFF), an achievement for global health 🎉

Thank you to our amazing volunteer advocates and partners. For months, we’ve raised our collective voice for Canada to invest in the GFF to help reverse concerning global trends such as worsening maternal health outcomes and rising child mortality rates. Today's investment is a solid and timely down payment towards this goal.

We celebrate today, but keep advocating tomorrow. We’ll continue to call on Canada to build on their down payment to get to $340 million over 5 years for the GFF. Why? because Canadians care about global health. And for good reason. Not only does it save lives, it is also a key to global stability.

That's what we call a win-win.

Learn more about today's announcement: https://t.co/DsoVxedRlb

@MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP @YasirNaqviCDN @CanadaDev #cdnpoli

[Grand Challenges Canada @gchallenges]

We're joining global entrepreneurs, change makers and innovators in Oxford next week! Connect with our team at the #SkollWF and side events.

Learn more: https://t.co/BrfdP3vicq