The Director of Development Research at IMANI Ghana has been appointed as a judge in the Global innovation competition in Qatar.

Bright Simons was engaged by the Qatar Foundation and the UK’s Imperial College, along with some eminent global personalities, to help curate the 2014 WISH Global Health Innovation Showcase.

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation, has attracted global innovators with projects for its “Innovation Showcases” competition.

The competition has already received more than 35 applications from over 10 countries, including Qatar, Egypt, Germany, USA, Haiti, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovenia and Switzerland.

The inspired innovations include new practices, health products and digital solutions as well as service delivery models and health education ideas.

The competition gives healthcare innovators the chance to display their work in front of more than 1,000 global experts and decision-makers at the next Wish Summit taking place in Qatar in February 2015.

The competition closes on October 31.

The eRanger, one of the winners of “Innovation Showcases” at Wish 2013, is already making an impressive impact in many parts of the world, including a partnership with the government of Kenya and St John Ambulance Medical Centre in Kenya.

The eRanger is a versatile, robust cost-effective vehicle with the cargo capacity of a sidecar, which can help provide healthcare in hard-to-reach communities.

The event will help highlight innovations in a range of fields that have the potential to transform healthcare worldwide.