(THE GIST OF PIB) Global Health Innovation Fellowship

(October-2023)

Global Health Innovation Fellowship

• Recently, the Union Minister for Science and Technology launched Global Health Innovation Fellowship to promote medtech startups and innovators among youth.

About Global Health Innovation Fellowship:

• It is an initiative in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology.
• This collaboration will leverage intellectual property (IP), innovation and medical technology to solve local health challenges using global partnerships.
• It aims to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange among young professionals from diverse countries”.

Significance:

• It was created in 1967 “to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property (IP) throughout the world.”
• It is one of the 17 specialised agencies of the United Nations.
• Currently, there are 193 members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
• India joined this organization in 1975.
• Headquarter: Geneva

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