Course in Health Innovation
Pulse is currently planning a health innovation program that will be offered over three sessions and outline how students in health-related disciplines and programs can use innovation to make meaningful changes in their profession. This course will encourage creative thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Overview: The course will start by providing a background of health innovation, what it is, what it means, and examples of health innovation in Canada. Students will then learn more about the basics of innovation, including design thinking, empathy mapping, ideation, prototyping, and pitching.Finally, in groups, students will develop and pitch a solution to a current health-related challenge.
Pulse is currently working towards confirming an innovation related course for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Hackathons
Pulse will host health innovation challenges as an opportunity for students to tackle specific problems. Pulse will provide a problem statement and students will use an innovation framework to introduce novel solutions and an implementation plan.
Pulse is hosting a Sustainable Care hackathon as part of an Interprofessional Education Mini Course on April 1, 2025.
Clinical Spaces Tours
These tours provide students with firsthand exposure to their future work environments, helping them connect with industry professionals and witness the applications of innovation in practice and research.
The first tour of these tours took place on February 26, 2025, at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology (CCfV), where students attended a presentation on CCfV’s research, clinical activities, and industry partnerships before touring the facilities.
Pulse has two more clinical tours scheduled for Summer/Spring semester at AGADA Biosciences and the NS Health Pathology Lab. You can join the waitlist for these events here.Â
Health Research Intellectual Property Workshop
Curious about how to protect and commercialize your health research? Join Pulse and the Office of Commercialization and Industry Engagement (OCIE) for a hands-on Intellectual Property workshop designed for graduate students in Health, Medicine, and Dentistry. Through expert insights, case study discussions, and interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to navigate IP strategy and connect with Dalhousie’s innovation ecosystem to turn your ideas into impact.
Recommended for: Graduate students, postdocs, and faculty conducting research in Health, Medicine, and Dentistry; clinical students; undergraduate students undertaking health research.
Wednesday April 30, 2025
10:30am-12:00pm
In Person – Location TBA (Carlton Campus)
This session has a maximum capacity of 20 participants. We are collecting a waitlist!
Register Here.
Interested? Contact Us:
For more information please contact Pulse manager Schnell D’Souza at schnell.dsouza@dal.ca.Â