Creating ripples in healthcare.
Challenges → apps → impact

Ripple brings together health experts, partners and health systems to tackle the most urgent problems in healthcare today. Through global challenges, structured programmes and no-code tech, it turns the most promising ideas into digital solutions that deliver impact at scale.

We begin with the Women’s Digital Health Challenge 2025.

Purple banner featuring illustrated women of different ages and backgrounds with the Ripple Women’s Digital Health Challenge 2025 logo.

Ripple exists to tackle urgent health problems that systems alone can’t.

We bring together health experts, partners, and system leaders to develop digital solutions that reach patients who need them most.

Through our innovation challenges we surface the most promising ideas, models or programmes, and equip innovators to produce real-world solutions.

Innovators gain access to Cogniss’s no-code technology, AWS’s secure infrastructure, and a structured pathway from idea to app that has been proven time and again. Our Challenge partners provide the support to ensure these solutions can be adopted, procured and scaled within health systems.

Our goal is simple. Digital health innovations that reach people and deliver measurable impact.

Our purpose

Challenges

Illustration of women of different ages and backgrounds for the live Ripple Women’s Digital Health Challenge 2025.

This Challenge aims to support high-impact digital health solutions that tackle the most urgent priorities in women's health. Expressions of Interest open!

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Illustration of diverse people of different ethnicities and styles standing together for the in progress Priority Digital Health Challenge 2025, a Ripple initiative.

This Challenge aims to support solutions for underserved health areas. Winning proposals tackle nutritional literacy in migrant communities and sleep challenges in kids.

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Illustration of diverse group of people standing together for the completed Priority Population Digital Health Challenge 2024, a Ripple initiative.

This Challenge was designed to support priority populations, leading to the launch of two apps that are helping mothers and babies from ethnic minorities, and stroke survivors.

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Illustration with male and female gender symbols and illustrated figures of a boy and a girl in the center for the upcoming Ripple Sexual and Reproductive Health Challenge.
Illustration of a mother holding a baby above her as the father supports with his hands for the upcoming Ripple Parenting and Early Childhood Challenge.
Illustration with abstract earthy-colored mountains and a sun for the upcoming Ripple Indigenous Health Challenge.
An illustration of a boy with a happy expression and closed eyes, with a large pink flower and green leaves growing from his head, symbolizing mental health and well-being, for the upcoming Ripple Mental Health Challenge
Illustration of a migrant family with a woman, man, and young boy, carrying luggage and a package for the upcoming Ripple Migrant and Refugee Health Challenge.
Illustration of a pink, green and blue awareness ribbon forming a loop for upcoming Ripple Rare Diseases Challenge.

Get involved

  • Icon of a lightbulb with a person silhouette inside, representing innovators in the global Ripple initiative.

    For innovators

    Are you a researcher, clinician or innovator with promising ideas but without the means to turn them into real solutions? We help you make it happen.

  • Icon of a globe with a dollar sign coin, representing funders in the global Ripple initiative.

    For funders

    Want your funding to drive real-world results instead of stalled pilots? We back the most promising ideas with the tools and support needed to scale.

  • Line drawing of three connected human icons, representing partners in the global Ripple initiative.

    For partners

    Are you a health system, NGO or corporate wanting to break down the barriers to scaling great solutions? We work with you to deliver system-level impact.

  • Icon of three raised hands with open palms inside a blue circle background, representing allies in the global Ripple initiative.

    For allies

    Not building an app or funding one, but still want to make a difference? We welcome mentors, connectors, advocates and champions of the movement.

Get involved