Ripple Women’s Digital Health Challenge 2025 offers innovators worldwide the opportunity to develop pilot-ready apps for women’s health, supported with pathways to piloting and adoption.
Delivered by Cogniss, the Health Innovation Network, AWS and SomX, this 12-month programme will support a cohort of innovators to build patient-facing solutions that directly reach women and communities, addressing needs that current systems struggle to meet. These could include tools for early diagnosis, education and information, self-help and prevention, delivery of tailored interventions, or ongoing support between appointments and during recovery or rehabilitation. The Challenge welcomes innovations addressing, but not limited to, menopause, maternal and perinatal care, gynaecological cancers, mental health, fertility, pelvic health and cardiovascular health.
Selected participants will join a structured app-development programme using Cogniss’s no-code technology, built on secure and scalable infrastructure from AWS. They will also receive piloting and adoption support from the Health Innovation Network, and access to resources and networks across delivery partners. Two winners will receive additional tailored guidance and greater visibility.
Richard Stubbs, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber CEO and Chair of the Health Innovation Network, said: “Women’s health is a national priority. Through Ripple we will rapidly develop the most promising women’s health innovations and get them into the hands of the clinicians and patients who need them most. Working in partnership in this way means we can go further and faster than before and I’m really excited by the impact this project will have.”
Leon Young, CEO of Cogniss said: “Cogniss exists to help health experts and systems create digital health products for the patients who need them most. This Challenge presents the start of a new chapter for us. Building on the success of our previous programmes, we will support a global cohort of women’s health specialists to create a suite of apps in one urgent area: women’s health. With all these apps built on the same platform, we make it simpler for health systems to adopt them faster and at a greater scale.”
Ripple’s mission is to turn the most promising proposals into real-world solutions that reach the people who need them most. Applications open 22 September and close 29 October 2025, with judging in December and the programme beginning in February 2026.