Africa CDC Youth Digital Health Champions (YDH-C) Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa CDC Youth Digital Health Champions (YDH-C) Program 2025. The Youth in Digital Health Network (YiDHN), established by Africa CDC is a strategic initiative aimed toward fostering youth‑pushed improvements and participation in digital well being.

Recognizing the transformative function of African younger professionals in shaping the way forward for healthcare and reaching Universal Healthcare protection in Africa, YiDHN gives a structured platform for capability constructing, collaboration, advocacy, and coverage engagement throughout Africa. YiDHN’s thematic areas align with its broader Strategy targets to Strengthen capability and digital literacy amongst youth; Engage youth in governance and regulatory boards; Facilitate entry to funding and pathways for sustainable scale; Connect youth with key stakeholders in digital well being.

The Youth Digital Health Champions (Y-DHC) program seeks to establish, profile, and join dynamic younger leaders who’re actively shaping the digital well being panorama throughout Africa. Champions will function function fashions, advocates, and collaborators in advancing digital well being innovation, coverage, and apply. The initiative goals to construct a visual and impactful community that may inform insurance policies, strengthen native innovation ecosystems, and amplify youth management throughout the continent.

Benefits

• Visibility and Recognition: Featured profiles and tales shared throughout Africa CDC and YiDHN channels, elevating the visibility of every Champion’s work at nationwide, regional, and continental ranges.
• Access to High-Level Convenings: Opportunities to take part in YiDHN-branded webinars, coverage dialogues, and Africa CDC boards to share insights, affect agendas, and construct credibility. Some Youth Champions will probably be chosen to take part within the Africa HealthTech Summit – #AHTS2025.
• Peer Networking and Collaboration: Connection to a vibrant, cross-continental neighborhood of like-minded digital well being innovators and advocates for shared studying and joint initiatives.
• Capacity Building and Policy Engagement: Priority invites to coaching classes, workshops, and coverage engagements designed to boost management, technical, and advocacy abilities.
• Support for scaleup and growth: The initiative will pursue strategic partnerships and sponsorships aimed toward unlocking further alternatives. This will embrace entry to seed funding and help for youth-led digital well being startups, mentorship and training from trade leaders, participation in Continental and worldwide innovation challenges, fellowships, and accelerator packages.

Eligibility

Applicants should meet the entire following minimal necessities:

• Age: Must be between 18 and 35 years outdated on the time of application.
• Nationality/Residency: Must be a citizen of an African Union member state. Africans within the diaspora may apply.
• Language Proficiency: Proficiency in at the least certainly one of these languages – English, French, Arabic, Portuguese (with means to take part in cross-lingual platforms most well-liked).
• Engagement in Digital Health: Must be actively concerned in digital well being by way of a number of of the next:
  • Innovation (e.g., startup founder, expertise developer)
  • Research and Academia
  • Public well being packages using digital instruments
  • Policy growth or advocacy
  • Capacity constructing or digital literacy initiatives

Selection Criteria

Applicants will probably be assessed primarily based on the next weighted standards:

• Leadership and Initiative (45%): They are searching for younger individuals who have demonstrated management in a digital well being initiative, group, or advocacy. Evidence of non-public initiative, downside-fixing, and resilience is most well-liked. Individuals whose work contributions to at the least certainly one of YiDHN’s focus areas are inspired to apply:
  • Capacity constructing and digital literacy
  • Youth engagement in governance and regulation
  • Scaling improvements and accessing funding
  • Stakeholder and community mobilization
• Impact and Innovation (25%): Individuals with confirmed monitor file of delivering tangible outcomes or improvements in digital well being and utilizing inventive or domestically-related digital instruments to handle healthcare challenges are inspired to apply. Early initiatives and improvements are inspired to exhibit potential affect if carried out efficiently.
• Motivation and Potential for Growth and Influence (30%): Individuals are inspired to exhibit their motivation to have interaction on problems with digital well being. They are searching for people with willingness and capability to have interaction in future YiDHN actions together with webinars, coverage dialogues, and capability-constructing initiatives.

Application

Applicants ought to submit the next by September 14, 2025 (11:00 PM GMT+3)

• Completed application type
• CV/resume (max 2 pages)
• One letter of advice
• Optional: Links to initiatives, publications, or media

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Africa CDC YDH-C Program.