DIHI Scholarship Program

The DIHI Clinical Research & Innovation Scholarship Program was created in 2014 to pioneer transformative leadership and innovation in health and healthcare. Scholars will critically evaluate the status quo, test innovations in thoughtful and meaningful ways, and eagerly learn from failure to iterate. The program is guided by five core values: curiosity; adaptability; bold humility; ubuntu (“I am because we are”); and resilience.

Participants in the program will:

• develop soft skills through leading projects with real stakes and real impacts; reading discussions (e.g., innovation, innovators, alternative payment models, algorithms, regulation, hiring, change management, strategy, and decision making); and by giving presentations to internal and external stakeholders;
• develop hard skills through DataCamp data science educational content; curating data, performing analysis, build models for projects; a structured data science curriculum with presentations and case studies; and
• gain career development through fireside chats with MDs who pursued careers in innovation (e.g., VC, startup founder, and Director of Innovation for Primary Care).