Designing and Sustaining Technology Innovation for Global Health Practice
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate-level course on entrepreneurship in global health. Each week pairs a lecture with a skills-based tutorial led by guest leaders from industry, nonprofits, technology firms, and academia, covering how to design and sustain health technology ventures in settings ranging from hospitals to remote villages. Lectures build toward a faculty-mentored pilot project, often sponsored by a ministry of health or nonprofit partner, that may take the form of a market or business plan, a product development plan, or a research study design. The course treats healthcare leaders as entrepreneurs who must balance venture management with delivering life-saving medicines and services. Materials include lecture notes and project guidance published through MIT OCW, free to access, with no certificate offered. Best suited to students already familiar with global health or business fundamentals.