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2026 JOHNS HOPKINS HEALTHCARE DESIGN COMPETITION

Application Deadline: February 1st, 2026, 11:59 PM EST.

LOCATION: USA

Applications for the 2026 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition are now open! A competition to celebrate good design in healthcare! Winners show a solid understanding of the need, the people impacted, focused problem-solving, and a great real-world solution.

ELIGIBILITY:

The project is open to any student-led team that has designed a health-related solution. All countries. All academic fields.

The project must be focused on a healthcare application in either of the 4 tracks

Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems

Global Health/Humanitarian Design

Healthcare Apps/Digital Health

The project must have been started after January 1st, 2024

The project must be driven by full-time students

Postdoc research projects are ineligible.

Projects that have utilized significant funding (>$100K) are ineligible.

Projects that are not run by full-time students are ineligible. For example, projects run by startup companies or faculty are ineligible.

Eligible full-time students include those working towards undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees (MBA, MD, etc.).

Project teams should comprise more than one full-time student.

Applicants can submit multiple unique projects

If you have any questions regarding your team’s eligibility, please contact Aditya Polsani at apolsan1@jhu.edu or Allyson Chiu at achiu9@jh.edu

Timeline:

February 1 – Submission of two-page proposals

March 10 – Finalists informed

April 12—Final round (virtual event)

BENEFIT:

Award for each track:

1st Prize: $5,000

2nd Prize: $3,000

3rd Prize: $1,000

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UCL ACCESS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP

Application Deadline: Monday 18 May 2026

LOCATION: England

The purpose of the Access Opportunity Scholarship is to support those who, because of their immigration status, are not able to secure student loans for their higher education.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants should:

Hold an offer of admission to UCL to study a full-time undergraduate degree for 2026/27 intake and

Be asylum seekers, children of asylum seekers or unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who are seeking asylum in the UK or forced migrants who are based in the UK and have been granted a temporary form of leave as the result of an asylum application or human rights application (e.g. limited leave to remain, discretionary leave to remain, humanitarian
protection); and

Be unable to access student finance (tuition fee or maintenance loan) because of their immigration status.

The deadline for the Access Opportunity scholarship is Monday, 18 May 2026.

The application form can be downloaded below

Access Opportunity Scholarship Application Form

FileAccess Opportunity Scholarship Application Form

Completed applications and supporting documentation should be emailed to studentfunding@ucl.ac.uk

BENEFIT:

The scholarship will consist of tuition fees and an allowance of £13,762 pa (this is the 2025/26 rate; 2026/27 to be confirmed) for the normal duration of your programme at UCL. Please note the allowance may be reduced if your leave status has restrictions on what additional support you can receive. 

Annual renewal of the scholarship is subject to satisfactory academic progress.

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