Fellowship Overview

Our healthcare system needs innovators. Welcome to the launchpad.

A better system for emergency room triage. Artificial intelligence that speeds up a critical diagnosis. An implantable device to help manage disease. Every crisis in modern medicine is a proving ground for innovation. Over 10 months in the Healthtech Fellowship, you and your team could begin building solutions like any of these and beyond. 

New from Harvard in 2020, the HealthTech Fellowship offers a one-of-a-kind 10-month immersion that will leave its fellows equipped to use the proven Biodesign innovation framework to reimagine the healthcare industry. The program runs annually from August through May.

 

Applications for the 2024-2025 HealthTech Fellowship are now closed.

We will re-open applications in Summer 2024.

 

Click here to view a pre-recorded informational webinar to learn more about the 2024-2025 HMS HealthTech Fellowship, featuring Alumni Fellows!

The HealthTech Fellowship embeds multi-disciplinary fellow teams with clinical partners for extended field observation where they’ll identify hundreds of real unmet healthcare needs. You will be working side-by-side with world-class physicians, gaining a first-hand perspective on what is and isn't working every day in our healthcare system. You’ll gain a deep understanding of how providers, hospitals, and payors think about introducing new products and services - and then you’ll put that learning to work.

Over the following months, your team will transform this challenge into a viable solution with the support of Harvard faculty and coaches, which includes entrepreneurs, inventors, and venture capitalists. 

HealthTech is a collaborative effort that leverages the faculty and resources from Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Business School. The fellowship will be facilitated through the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School.