Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS Healthcare Accelerator to propel startup innovation in health equity. The accelerator builds on a larger focus on this issue that includes a $40M commitment that AWS made last September to support customers to develop solutions to reduce health inequities. The AWS Healthcare Accelerator, delivered in collaboration with KidsX, aims to empower all startups that focus on improving health equity. It will support 10 startups with a four-week technical, business, and mentorship. 

US-based healthcare startups or international healthcare startups that have existing US operations, focussed on one or more of the following areas will be considered:

• Increasing access to health services
• Reducing disparities by addressing social determinants of health
• Leveraging data to promote equitable and inclusive systems of care

The 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator is open to all public health solutions. Startups with a validated solution, existing customers and revenue, and that use or seek to use AWS to help solve the biggest challenges in public health will be considered to participate in the 2022 cohort.