Nigeria Health Innovation Marketplace

NHIM - What we do

Nigeria Health Innovation Marketplace (NHIM) is a convergence platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, healthcare practitioners/advocates, NGOs, development partners and all key actors in the healthcare value chain from conceptualizer to end user. The marketplace explores and shapes alternative approaches to improving healthcare in Nigeria. In this marketplace, innovations – technologies and processes alike - will be borne, made visible, piloted and ultimately receive investments. We hope to achieve this through a variety of approaches that include sustained engagements and interactions in virtual and physical spaces, knowledge generation and sharing, and creating healthy competition and partnership. Thank you for visiting NHIM and we hope that you will make this your regular stop for healthcare innovations in Nigeria

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Marketplace Components

The marketplace is made up of a plethora of components that cater to the various aspects in the lifespan of health innovations. These components are designed to cover aspects such as spurring innovations and innovative partnerships, offering opportunities for promising innovations to gain visibility, providing support systems for innovations to achieve market readiness and scale, providing relevant information and knowledge around the innovation ecosystem and many more.

Innovation Hub

Do you have an interesting innovation you want the world or investors to see? Click here to see a selection of Nigeria’s most promising healthcare inventions or submit a request to add your innovation to the virtual hub.

Competitions & Hackathons

Be a part of the next innovation challenge or hack-a-thon. Check out what innovations and ventures have been receiving grants and awards

Development Accelerator Program (HiDAP)

Do you have an innovation that requires nurturing, or are you eager to learn more about social entrepreneurship? Are there additional technical or business skills you require to bring your innovation to life? Learn more and submit an application.

Data & Knowledge Repository

View our library of healthcare publications, e-books, articles, case studies and reports. We also have raw, organized & spatial data to help shape your next innovation.

Innovation Map

See who else in Nigeria is innovating what, where, and how!

Innovative Partnerships

Learn about exciting projects we are undertaking to improve healthcare service delivery with both health and non-health members of the alliance

Facts & Figures

We continuously strive to showcase, spur, and connect disruptive innovations with key actors in the health innovation ecosystem.

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INNOVATIONS

957

ENTREPRENEURS

11

INVESTORS

176

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS,
ACADEMIA, NGOs
& OTHERS

5

HIC 2015 WINNERS

11

HiDAP 2016 Participants

NHIM Supported Innovations

An innovation borne out of the need to improve access to Health Insurance especially across the informal sector in Nigeria. The mHealth service, which includes registration, subscription, account management and Mobile Visual identity is accessible via Web and USSD across the major Telcos in Nigeria. It allows one-off and/or micro contributions using airtime, Tailored Product Vouchers (TPV) and/or debit...

mHealth

Others Health Focus Areas
In Nigeria, 2,300 children under the age of 5 die every single day. Most of these deaths are due to preventable causes, and are the result of a chronic lack of access to quality health information and medical personnel. OMOMi is an app that at the touch of a button enables mothers & pregnant women do 2 things: Firstly, it...

OMOMi

Maternal and Child Health
The e-HEAL (Electronic Health Education in Any Language) solution based on the Mavis Pen™ and Talking Books™ can be used by women of child bearing age in rural communities as a preventive (and restorative) intervention. The goal is to provide antenatal, postnatal care, and essential lifesaving information in local languages to illiterate or semi-literate families to help save the...

Electronic Health Education in any Language

Maternal and Child Health
The UMT is a simple first-of-its-kind (no blood, no reagent, no equipment) dipstick test that tells in 25 minutes if a fever is due to malaria or not. The test can be conducted at any point of care setting, with a small sample of urine. UMT has been introduction into the Nigerian market (with a launch in Lagos and...

Fyodor Urine Malaria Test

Malaria
MDaaS is improving the affordability, accessibility and availability of hospital equipment in Nigeria by providing flexible equipment acquisition options and offering training, maintenance, repair, and overhaul services; these services will reduce equipment downtime, ensure that devices are used properly and efficiently, and maximize patient access to life-saving diagnostics tools. Through its capacity building programs, MDaaS will build a cohort...

Medical Device as a Service

Others Health Focus Areas

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FEMALE FOUNDERS Network

Overview

The main objective of the Female Founders Network is to play an active role in encouraging female entrepreneurs in the healthcare space in Nigeria to gain hold of the opportunities available to them both locally and globally, or to create new opportunities for themselves. We aim to do this by providing unlimited access to the membership network.