The Grand Challenges (GC) Network, a family of global partners fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems, is funding more than fifty grant recipients in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle the world's most pressing health challenges under the Grand Challenges Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use to Improve Global Health Challenge. This call builds on and complements the work of an initial global cohort of 50 AI innovators in global health and development supported by the Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges program, and was informed by joint partner discussions on the need for an equitable and responsible approach to the use of AI, and specifically Large Language Models (LLMs), in LMICs. Over the next 12 months, these more than 50 researchers and innovators will work to harness the power of AI to advance bold new solutions to entrenched and emerging challenges alike. Read summaries of all the grants awarded here. The official press release from the Grand Challenges Partners can be found here.
A photographic slideshow highlighting some of these awarded grants can be viewed here.