Innovations and Entrepreneurship towards Better Health, Supporting Healthcare Start-Ups: A New Movement to Accelerate Cures in Sudan, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. A. Homeida
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Dr. A. Homeida
University of Gezira
Sudan
AS a developing country, Sudan has just emerged from a protracted period of conflict that brought disaster on its people, both directly and indirectly. while some areas have witnessed war, others have suffered from the strain of hosting displaced populations. Furthermore, many places have been affected as a result of the diversion of resources meant for development. The Sudanese Medical Innovation Com- munity (sMIC) is a new movement aiming to accelerate cure, change and empower access to health for all. The core concepts and practices of the sMIC extend well beyond the entrepreneurial environment to the most appropriate methods of medical businesses educational curricula. The founding value of sMIC
is gratefulness and respect: respect for others, respect for both present and future generations, respect for the planet and for what it provides to us. Medical entrepreneurship is facing a huge need in targeted research and open databases, capacity development and platforms for sharing experiences. with some efforts already underway, we are trying to integrate sMIC components into the current medical schools, curricula at all levels of education and in all sectors and disciplines, including health professional education. Everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from high quality education, incorporating SMIC, to learn and appreciate the value and importance for entrepreneurship and innovation in health care and medicine. This supports the UN,s sustainable development goals, especially the health themes that will directly affect any person,s behaviour and lifestyle towards better health through medical ed- ucation activities. This would be through supporting entrepreneurship in health care and Medicine for sustainable Development (EsD) in Community-based Health professional education (CBHPE), and socially accountable educational methods. our goal is to bring together the healthcare community, researchers, designers, IT professionals and entrepreneurs to facilitate the formation of new ideas and sustainable development for the healthcare industry. Through one of its hack athons - startup weekend Health - the sMIC established more than 30 projects produced through wide interdisciplinary team members with differents kill sets, including IT, finance, marketing, medicine and healthcare. we have now established the first university-based community in the MENA and sub-saharan Africa region to support medical in nova - tion and entrepreneurship among medical societies. we are here to fuel the spread of entrepreneurship in healthcare and the medical industry, influencing young doctors and medical field students, to support and guide them through the evidence-based data provided by the different researchers, professors, and open databases we provide to our medical entrepreneurs.
Citation: Homeida. A.: Innovations and Entrepreneurship towards Better Health, Supporting Healthcare Start-Ups: A New Movement to Accelerate Cures in Sudan, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. In Allam Ahmed(Ed.): Home-Books-Proceedings-SDC, Vol. 1, pp. 20 - 21. WASD: Brighton, United Kingdom.