Join us on the evening of Tuesday 19th March for our interactive Dragon’s Den-style event, where we’ll find out the winner of our annual Student Challenges Competition.

The competition provides a platform for students based in the UK to showcase their idea to improve global health and win up to £5,000 to develop it further. Runners-up and audience choice prizes will also be awarded.

After pitches from the finalists and Q&As from the judges, the event will be followed by a drinks reception where the winners will be announced.

The finalists:

• Laura Braun and Kai Riemer, Imperial College London - Capta. Find out more.

• Petter Uvdal, Imperial College London - Clean water and phosphorus recycling. Find out more.

• Ebrahem Sherwi, Martynas Kaminskas, Imperial College London - Vie+. Find out more.

• Simon Rabinowicz, Uddhav Vaghela, Imperial College London - VUI Diagnostics: Improving global accessibility to digital retinal imaging. Find out more.

• Nana B Owusu-Nyantekyi, Imperial College London - Smart Pressure Mapping Sock. Find out more.

The Dragons:

• Dr Richard Smith - IGHI Adjunct Professor, Chairman of Patients Know Best, Director of the United Health Chronic Disease Initiative, former Editor of the British Medical Journal and Chief Executive of the BMJ Publishing Group

• Professor Julia Riley - Head of the Department of Palliative Medicine at the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton NHS Trusts and Senior Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

• Dr Will Cavendish - Global Digital Services Leader at Arup, former Strategy Lead at Applied at DeepMind and former Director General of Innovation, Growth and Technology at the Department of Health.

• Dr Ana Luisa Neves - M.D. and Research Fellow at the Institute Global Health and Innovation.