Co-innovation Ecosystem For Female Based Health Start-ups

There are several Danish health challenges that will benefit the healthcare systems of Bangladesh and Pakistan. Some of these challenges include:

1. Access to healthcare: In contrast to Denmark, many people in Bangladesh and Pakistan struggle to access basic healthcare services due to financial, geographical, and cultural barriers. Addressing these barriers and improving access to healthcare services could significantly benefit the healthcare systems of these countries.                                       

2. Chronic disease management: Implementing similar strategies as in Denmark in Bangladesh and Pakistan could help reduce the burden of chronic diseases on their healthcare systems.

3. Mental health: In contrast to Denmark, mental health is often neglected or stigmatized in Bangladesh and Pakistan, leading to inadequate treatment and support for those who need it. Improving mental health services and reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness could benefit the healthcare systems of these countries.

4. Maternal and child health: Denmark has comprehensive prenatal and postnatal care, as well as early childhood education and support programs. Improving maternal and child health services and education in Bangladesh and Pakistan could significantly benefit the health and well-being of women and children in these countries.

5. Technology and innovation: Denmark has been at the forefront of healthcare technology. Implementing similar technologies and innovations in Bangladesh and Pakistan could help improve healthcare delivery and access to services.

Improving access to healthcare services, addressing the disease burden, and strengthening healthcare infrastructure are the challenges that we solve by adding value to the Danish healthcare system and the healthcare systems of Bangladesh/Pakistan. Healthcare students from these ecosystems co-create to solve challenges that can benefit these ecosystems and scale healthcare solutions to mass volume populations. 

It is a co-creation effort between Danish Healthcare students from Region Hovedstaden and Copenhagen University, that via Nordic Innovations Centre located in Pakistan will innovate on health challenges from the Danish Healthcare ecosystem. The solutions will be checked for product/market fit in Bangladesh/Pakistan through collaboration with healthcare students from these ecosystems. 

DPEF (Denmark/Pakistan IT Entrepreneurs Forum) will use agile development methodology and Copenhagen University, Region Hovedstaden, and Nordic Innovations Centre to collaborate on minimum viable products. These solutions will be offered to EU companies to further funding in order to scale the health tech solutions to impact the ESG goals. 

DPEF will establish a health tech innovation platform that works across ecosystems to support female health entrepreneurs and a marketplace where these solutions can be funded by equity sharing. 

The collaboration entails, resources, agile development tools, use cases, and the development of a market platform to showcase these solutions for further funding. 

The solution will serve healthcare systems in Denmark, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The solution will improve the lives of mental healthcare patients, and chronic patients that cannot be served well in Bangladesh/Pakistan also optimizing these patients in the Danish healthcare systems. 

The solution will serve female healthcare students in Denmark, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. 

Expat spouses are discriminated against in the workforce as they don't have the opportunity to work and contribute. DPEF is in alliance with the sustainable expatriation foundation (SEF), where a network of highly capable expat spouses will become business developers and help female-led healthcare start-ups with coaching and access to market strategy. 

DPEF.DK has good access to IT and health-tech ecosystems in Denmark/Pakistan and Bangladesh. DPEF is led by Danish citizens with a Pakistan background and has a cultural fit within both ecosystems, furthermore a good stakeholder base in both countries in the health tech field.

DPEF has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nordic Innovations Centre in Pakistan that is working closely with large health organizations in Pakistan. 

Similarly, DPEF has members that are Danish citizens with Bangladesh backgrounds and have good contacts established in the Bangladesh health sector.

DPEF has been spearheading IT visits from Pakistan for the past couple of years and has done events in the healthcare sectors in both countries. 

We have signed agreements with Nordic Innovations Centre in Islamabad, and agreements in Bangladesh in order to roll out the health tech collaboration. 

We have a verbal acknowledgment of working on the health tech innovation ecosystems from Copenhagen University, Region Hovedstaden, and their health innovation programs beginning to start in 2024. 

We are currently discussing a collaboration in 2023 to form an international stream in the global health case challenge by Copenhagen University (KU) where WHO is a key stakeholder to present health challenges to be solved. There will be design sprints where solutions to these health challenges will be presented to a panel of health experts. 

DPEF is also discussing collaboration with KU on participating in the health innovator program where a similar international stream with Bangladesh/Pakistani healthcare professionals will work to solve health challenges. 

We expect to make a pilot project in the form of the global health case challenge with KU in 2023 and afterward enroll in KU´s health innovator program in 2024 to establish the health innovation collaboration with Bangladesh/Pakistan. 

We have selected health tech students in Pakistan and Bangladesh to enroll in this collaboration and are screening health challenges that will be suitable to work with for all three ecosystems. 

None. Its intended to optimize healthcare solutions in Bangladesh/Pakistan and also optimize the healthcare system in Denmark. 

Besides the funding to establish the innovation collaboration, we would like to obtain a cultural fit of advisors with healthcare backgrounds who can advise the healthcare start-ups on market penetration in Bangladesh/Pakistan and also if the solutions designed are applicable in other parts of the world and check for applicability. 

We want to create a health innovation platform where solutions can be designed and come to market in remote areas from the mature ecosystems to the more challenged ecosystems but with mass volume impacting the lives of millions at once. 

If there are legal/governmental constraints in the implementation we would like to have help sorting these out for speedy adaptability.

Bringing female healthcare innovators together across cultures to discuss healthcare problems that are relevant for all ecosystems enhances knowledge sharing and enhances a quality solution. 

The Danish healthcare system has the solutions to many of the challenges that people face in Bangladesh/Pakistan e.g. access to healthcare, mental healthcare, and treatment of chronic illnesses as they are not stigmatized and the healthcare systems can provide quality solutions for the people. 

We want female healthcare innovators to collaborate to scale global healthcare solutions across the barriers of culture, governments, and legislation and impact the lives that deserve to be treated. 

The innovation is in the collaboration as challenges will be worked upon to understand product/market fit and a panel of experts will evaluate the solutions before they can truly scale. 

We look to increase healthcare access for 65% of the population in Pakistan/Bangladesh

We look for solutions that educate on maternal/child health and solutions that treat mental illness as a socially acceptable illness without the patient being stigmatized. 

We look for health solutions that increase female-led health innovations that understand the soft cultural aspect in societies enabling more qualitative solutions when working across cultures. 

Female-led health tech start-ups

Mental illness treatments amongst expats

co-creations on health tech solutions

implementation of cross-cultural health solutions.

AI, ML and cloud computing will enable big data and app-based solutions that can scale to remote areas for pre-treatment plans. 

We work on female entrepreneurship within health tech in the ecosystems in Denmark/Pakistan/Bangladesh. We want equality for all in terms of health treatments and want to optimize the healthcare systems in these three countries so healthcare can be provided for the needed also in remote areas.

The business model is to establish co-creations in healthcare that can be impactful to optimize healthcare systems across cultures. 

This product/market fits need to be provided for investors to invest as business cases once they are validated by health experts. Our organization will charge a 2-5% commission from funding partners and 5% equity in the health-tech startups in Bangladesh/Pakistan.

We are expecting grants from health companies that are interested in health tech innovations from CPH university, CPH municipality, and private corporations. 

We have managed to get a memorandum of understanding with the Nordic Innovations Centre in Pakistan through which we have access to the finest health universities in Pakistan and Bangladesh. With access to their innovation program and resources, students, and agile resources.