Grand Challenges Annual Meeting
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Collaboration on a Global Scale
The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting brings together major influencers in global health innovation. Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, funders, and advocates meet in a different city every year, where they set agendas, forge collaborations, and advance science. Everyone at the GC Annual Meeting shares a single goal: discovering and delivering innovations that transform millions of people's lives.
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GC Annual Meeting 2023 - Dakar, Senegal: Panel Discussion on AI (AI for the World: Advancing Inclusive and Equitable Use of Artificial Intelligence).
Participants at the GC Annual Meeting 2023 Meeting in Dakar, Senegal sharing ideas.
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The 2023 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal. Videos of this meeting can be viewed here.
All Past Annual Meetings
- 2025 - Washington DC, United States (Virtual)
- 2023 - Dakar, Senegal
- 2022 - Brussels, Belgium
- 2021 - Boston, United States (Virtual)
- 2020 - New Delhi, India (Virtual)
- 2019 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 2018 - Berlin, Germany
- 2017 - Washington D.C., United States
- 2016 - London, United Kingdom
- 2015 - Beijing, China
- 2014 - Seattle, United States
- 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2012 - Ottawa, Canada
- 2011 - New Delhi, India
- 2010 - Seattle, United States
- 2009 - Arusha, Tanzania
- 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand
- 2007 - Cape Town, South Africa
- 2006 - Washington D.C., United States
- 2005 - Seattle, United States
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Grand Challenges partners routinely take advantage of the GC Annual Meeting to issue requests for proposals for new innovation projects. Using this map, you can learn more about thousands of projects the Grand Challenges network has supported over time.