HACKATHON ON CLIMATE & WELLBEING

The Climate & Wellbeing Hackathon, organized by Nims University Rajasthan, the World Health Summit Academic Alliance, and Khushi Baby, is now accepting registrations. This virtual competition aims to harness AI, remote sensing, and data-driven solutions to address climate change and public health issues. Climate change contributes to rising temperatures, extreme weather events, air pollution, and shifting disease patterns, all of which pose significant risks to human, animal, and environmental health.

Participants have the opportunity to submit innovative ideas across six problem tracks. The first track focuses on heat, aiming to create a near-real-time heat-health burden nowcast. Another track involves developing a satellite rooftop heat-vulnerability classifier and cool-roof prioritization engine. The third track focuses on action plans and decision-support systems for heat-health governance.

The fourth track targets early heat-strain warnings for outdoor and informal workers, while the fifth track addresses heat-surge readiness for health systems. The final track involves environment-driven vector-risk prediction and community breeding-site reporting with AI verification.

The top two innovative ideas will be honored with the Dr. B.S. Tomar Innovation Award at the prestigious World Health Summit Academic Alliance - Expert Meeting on Climate & Wellbeing. Teams can register from August 7 to August 20, 2026, and the virtual jury review will take place on August 20, 2026. The winners will be announced on August 23-24, 2026. To participate, teams can submit a pitch deck solution in .pptx format.