For Students
Resources
Events, competitions, and communities for students interested in technology and health equity.
Events
Conferences and symposiums on technology and health equity.
A yearly meeting for public health organizations on how AI affects the public's health, where it can help, and how to limit the harm it causes.
Digital health in low-resource settings and low- and middle-income countries. Sessions cover responsible AI, data governance, and putting tools into practice.
A major yearly meeting for biomedical and health informatics research, with a track on health equity.
Competitions and Hackathons
Hackathons, datathons, and pitch competitions open to medical students.
People from every background form teams and build new health projects over several days.
A weekend of rapid prototyping with AI and extended reality (XR), with guidance from industry experts.
Teams build AI-based solutions to problems in health systems.
UCLA Competitions
Startup and innovation competitions open to UCLA students.
A team business plan competition open to all enrolled UCLA students. It rewards student ideas and helps promising new ventures launch.
Students from any UCLA school use technology to tackle problems in society, with cash prizes for the winners. Each team needs at least one UCLA MBA student and one UCLA student from outside the MBA program.
For new, independent ventures at the seed or early stage that don't yet have venture capital backing. Teams need at least one Anderson MBA student and get feedback from founders and business leaders.
Websites
Guides, toolkits, and open data worth bookmarking.
Reports and articles on how technology is changing health care in California.
A practical guide from Care Innovations on using telemedicine to reach underserved patients.
A catalog of open-source digital health tools used in global health.
Communities
Groups and networks to join.
Our medical student group at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, focused on health equity and innovation. Join the GroupMe to hear about events first.
A network for medical professionals interested in business, with shared opportunities, events, and projects.
A network of informatics professionals working on equity in health and health care, through research and day-to-day practice.