Paratus Digital Health Accelerator – Cohort 3
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Seeking: Innovative digital health solutions aligned with BARDA’s mission to enhance pandemic preparedness and fortify health security.
This program is seeking to accelerate digital health tools that enhance preparedness and response to public health emergencies due to:
- Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats
- Pandemic Influenza
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
Technology Focus Areas for this Accelerator Program:
Digital health technologies for rapid screening and detection
Rapidly deployable digital health technologies for screening, detection, diagnosis and/or risk assessment of health security threats including but not limited to Influenza and pandemic influenza, CBRN threats, and Emerging Infectious Diseases.
AI tools for medical countermeasure development
AI algorithms and architectures that can enable MCM development specifically in de novo drug design, drug candidate repurposing, optimizing clinical trials and addressing regulatory bottlenecks in the clinical development process.
Novel analytics and data sources for health threat assessment
Combining novel analytic approaches, such as AI/ML, with broadly accessible data sources such as images, audio, sensors or user data from smartphones/wearable devices; or other novel digital data sources for screening, detection, diagnosis and/or risk assessment of health security threats.
Wearable IoT for continuous disease monitoring
Wearable IoT that produces accurate and reliable data which enables continuous and real-time monitoring for early disease detection and prediction, accelerating response to health security threats.
If your solution is working in another segment or space, please provide a narrative around how it relates to the focus areas above.
Timeline
October 15, 2025: Applications open
December 3, 2025: Applications close
January 12–January 14, 2026: Cohort announced
January 19, 2026–March 27, 2026: 10-week accelerator
March 2026: Final Showcase
Deadline to apply is December 3, 2025 at 11:59pm CT.