Creating ripples in healthcare.
Challenges → apps → impact

Founded by Cogniss, the Ripple Challenges bring together health experts, partners and systems to tackle the most urgent problems in healthcare today. Through global outreach, structured programmes and no-code tech, these challenges turn the most promising ideas into digital solutions ready to deliver impact at scale.

Learn more about our latest challenge, the Ripple Women’s Digital Health Challenge 2025.

Ripple Women's Digital Health Challenge 2025 banner graphic featuring illustrated women of diverse backgrounds with a corner ribbon reading winners announced
Explore the Challenge
Explore the Challenge

We believe everyone deserves the right care and support, at the right time.

Founded by Cogniss initiative, Ripple Publishing identifies the types of digital health solutions that health systems need and are ready to pay for.

Ripple Challenges target those identified needs, and help surface the most promising ideas 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 are ready to be adopted by the health systems and the wider care ecosystem.

Ripple Publishing then supports the willing innovators to publish their apps into curated portfolios aligned to system priorities and deployed through consolidated pathways, making it much easier for health systems to procure them than individual apps and easier for patients to adopt.

Our why

Challenges

Illustration of diverse women of different ages and backgrounds standing together for the Ripple Women's Digital Health Challenge 2025, winners announced.

This Challenge aims to support high-impact digital health solutions that tackle the most urgent priorities in women's health. Winners announced!

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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 of diverse children, young people and families for the upcoming Ripple Children and Young People's Health Challenge.
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 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 in our Challenges

  • 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.

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