TechNurses Africa Innovation Lab

Practice. Build. Test. Prove.

A place for nurses, midwives and healthcare professionals to practise real work, step by step.

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110Applications
16Selected
9Innovators in the Lab

Choose your mission

Healthcare Innovation

“I want to solve a healthcare problem”

Innovator's Quest

Investigate a real healthcare problem, learn from people, build and test a response, and develop as a healthcare innovator.

Healthcare Business & Entrepreneurship

“I want to build or launch a healthcare business”

Venture Quest

Turn healthcare knowledge, expertise, an idea, product or service into something people need, can use and may pay for.

How the Lab works

Each Quest guides you through a different kind of real-world work.

  1. Practice

    Work on something real.

  2. Build

    Turn what you learn into something you can try.

  3. Test

    Try it safely with the right people.

  4. Prove

    Show what you did, learned and improved.

Inside the Lab

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Innovator’s Quest

A guided journey for investigating a real healthcare problem, learning from people, building and testing a response, and developing as a healthcare innovator.

Explore Innovator’s Quest

Opens November 2026

Venture Quest

A pathway for turning healthcare knowledge, expertise, an idea, product or service into something people need, can use and may pay for.

Ways to take part

Learn / Join a Quest

Choose the work you want to practise.

Support innovators

Partner with the live Innovator’s Quest.

Innovation Open Day

Meet the Lab through Innovator’s Quest.

Your work becomes proof

Don’t only say what you can do. Show it.

As you practise, you capture what you did, what you learned and what you can now show. In Innovator’s Quest, this grows into evidence of progress and the Innovation Passport.

What do you want to practise next?