Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Named Winner of 2024 Amazon Web Services Inaugural Children’s Health Innovation Award
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) today announced it has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant: Children’s Health Innovation Award, a new grant opportunity designed to accelerate innovation to improve children’s health outcomes with the use of advanced cloud services, such as generative AI. By focusing on children’s health, AWS seeks to bring more focus and attention to a wide variety of causes and care organizations who are dedicated to helping children live longer, healthier lives, through the strategic use of cloud technology.
The AWS IMAGINE grant will help EGPAF build solutions to provide clinicians with real-time insights into HIV service-care risks for children in Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. By integrating generative AI with existing electronic health and medical records, EGPAF aims to enhance healthcare providers’ ability to predict and prevent HIV treatment failures, enabling more personalized and proactive care for people living with HIV and improving access to long-term data and personalized feedback.
EGPAF was named a recipient in the Children’s Health Innovation Award category, which recognizes highly innovative, mission-critical projects accelerating children’s health innovation using advanced cloud services such as generative AI. EGPAF will receive a combination of funding and AWS computing credits, along with implementation support from technical specialists. Proposals were considered based on several criteria, including the innovative and unique nature of the project, impact on mission-critical goals, and clearly defined outcomes and milestones.
“We are thrilled to announce this inaugural cohort of recipients pursuing groundbreaking advancements in children’s health, pediatric care, and research enabled by the AWS Cloud,” said Dave Levy, head of worldwide public sector at AWS. “From applications of generative AI to enable precision care in pediatric genomics, to AI-powered tools for physicians that will provide access to more data insights than ever before, these organizations have audacious plans to improve children’s health outcomes on a global scale. We’re excited to work closely with them to realize these goals with cloud technology.”
“EGPAF has always prioritized leveraging new technologies towards meeting our mission of ending the pediatric AIDS epidemic. Through the AWS IMAGINE Grant, we will be able to continue our critical life-saving work, cultivating equitable health systems, and guaranteeing that no child is ever devastated by HIV/AIDS,” said EGPAF’s Executive Vice President of External Affairs and Business Development, Trish Karlin. “We thank AWS for this award and for its demonstrated commitment to ending pediatric AIDS.”
Over 85,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide use AWS to increase their impact and advance mission goals. Through programs and resources tailored specifically for the nonprofit community, AWS enables organizations of all sizes to overcome barriers to technology adoption, while enhancing the scale, performance, and capabilities of mission operations.
For more information on the AWS IMAGINE Grant, visit aws.amazon.com/IMAGINE-grant
