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WHI Endeavor Partnership
WHI to partner with the UK-South Africa Tech Hub and Endeavor SA in Ecosystem Building Programme -
Pushing through the Pandemic!
A solution borne out of the 2019 WHI BARA.1 #HealthcareHackathon is taking shape in spite of the COVID-19 challenge. -
Let's Change Health
Wits Healthcare Innovation aims to spark the ideas that generate the creation of patient-centered, technology-driven, scalable solutions to South Africa's most urgent and challenging healthcare problems -
WHI Student Society
The Covid-19 epidemic has been a time of hardship, change and adjustment. For medical students it has been no different- returning to the clinical space comes with genuine fear and risk.
What We Do

Network
We are creating a network of diverse people, skills, resources and funders to develop and support bottom-up innovations that lead to scalable solutions to South Africa’s most urgent and challenging health problems.

Research
We research and develop new strategies and frameworks for healthcare innovation in South Africa.

Grow
We support and build on existing health innovation initiatives.

Debate
We create platforms for discussion and debate on important health issues.

WHI Student Society
Together with Wits' students, we have started a student-focused arm of WHI, the WHI Student Society (WHISS), to inspire, up-skill and challenge Wits’ students to become part of positive change in healthcare in South Africa.

Inspire
We aim to inspire a culture of entrepreneurship within the clinical setting and within medical schools.
WHAT WE DO
Our Innovation Approach
We passionately focus our efforts in a way that will nurture and scale meaningful, niche ideas.
