Ecosystems, Finance & Health

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EFH Innovation Sprint
March 5th to 7th 2025, Nairobi, Kenya
Science has tackled some of the world’s biggest challenges. But for many so-called ‘wicked problems’, the pace at which scientific findings lead to real world solutions is exceedingly slow. The impacts of climate change and mass ecological degradation on people’s health and well-being are a case in point; they affect all aspects of natural and human systems, undermining and potentially reversing decades of progress in food security, health and economic development. How can we rapidly bring the best scientific evidence to those designing and funding solutions to these problems?
Ecosystems, Finance & Health (EFH) imagines a world in which people - whether they have or lack a scientific background - can access and leverage scientific data, knowledge and insights to make decisions for better public health and environmental outcomes. We want you to help us build this world. That is why we are organizing the first EFH Innovation Sprint - a hackathon to explore how recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence could be leveraged in creating tools that broaden access to high quality scientific evidence on the processes linking climate, biodiversity loss, and food systems to people’s health and wellbeing.
New ways of thinking and tackling important challenges often come from unexpected areas. The EFH Innovation Sprint participants will come from a diverse range of backgrounds at any level of expertise in data science. Participants will have a chance to receive mentorship from world leading experts at the frontiers of generative AI approaches such as LLMs and Agentic AI. Prizes (monetary rewards, technology and collaborative opportunities) will be offered to winning teams.







How to Apply & Elidgibility
To apply for consideration as a participant, please complete the form below.
To be eligible you must be:
Based in Kenya
Have expertise in data science, and previous experience with generative AI