2025 1st SIGHT Design for Global Health Competition
We’re incredibly honored to have wrapped up our Design for Global Health Competition 2025 in Jagna, Bohol, Philippines, on the 18th of February 2026!
Over the Lunar New Year holidays (14-18 February), five advancing teams from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University and University of the Philippines —selected from 28 teams across 11 universities in 8 Asia-Pacific economies (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and the U.S.)—partnered with Philos Health medical & dental teams, local health workers in Jagna, as well as students from Central Visayan Institute Foundation (CVIF) to tackle some of the most pressing issues in the data and health systems, proposing simple yet impactful solutions to the community.
The teams’initial prototypes were tested under real-life situation that the communities have encountered and their creativity, innovation, and resilience have been especially tested throughout the intensive week to learn how to empathize with user needs and deploy solutions that are not only scalable but sustainable in the long run.
Congratulations to our teams:
[ToothAid] – First Place & Favorite
– Solution: Building an offline-first dental data and impact monitoring system for the Philos Missions dental clinic.
[HealthHive] – Second Place
– Solution: HealthHive aims to equip local health workers with operational optimization and comprehensive capacity-building training to transform reactive chronic care into proactive continuity.
[HeDa] & [MedHub] – Third Place
HeDa
– Solution: Offering simple adorable bracelets and tracking system with different color beads to inform crucial blood pressure and medication status, enabling increased awareness, efficient follow-up and resource allocation anywhere, anytime for a healthier community
MedHub
– Solution: MedHub is a lightweight inventory system that tracks medication stock, captures prescribed but not dispensed events, and uses these data for analytics and evidence-based interventions
[TakeEasy] – Most Empathetic Award
TakeEasy
– Solution: Using website to integrate forms and sheets in one database and streamline data management and promoting dental education through student ambassador program
We are incredibly thankful to our judges, mentors, and partners in Jagna for investing their time and expertise, and to every student who submitted a prototype! We are incredibly proud of the hard work that you do and wish you all the best for future endeavors.
We will be sharing more about the students and partners’ journey during the competition in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
If you are a faculty or partner organization that are interested in knowing more about us or exploring possible collaborations with our program, we would love to connect with you and explore what we can build together.