In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF launched Reboot Health & Wellbeing – Keeping Young People Safe, inspiring young people from around the world to develop solutions to one of the most urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safe.
140 ideas were submitted from around the world, covering important issues such as mental health, education, information empowerment, sexual health, and drug abuse.
The public had their say, the expert panel evaluated the submissions, and on 7 July 2020 the winners were announced live by Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Congratulations to the amazing winners of the #RebootHealthChallenge, Contagious Kindness: Pay it Forward and Children’s Voices on COVID-19!
We saw the two inspiring winners pitch their ideas to thousands of virtual attendees worldwide and engage in an interesting Q&A session with Dr Tedros and event attendees covering issues including health and wellbeing, digital innovation, and the role of young people in shaping health outcomes.
Bernardo Mariano Jr, Chief Information Officer at WHO, ended our event with an insightful African proverb - “If you wish to move quickly, move alone, if you wish to move far, move together”. We look forward to moving both far and quickly, in close collaboration with our fantastic winners, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF.
For more information on the winning proposals, please click here. https://ideas.unite.un.org/reboothealth