Summer Intensive 2026

Lead the future of healthcare.
Shape Systems. Drive Innovation. Create Impact.

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The Programme

What is this programme about?

A healthcare degree equips you to serve patients. But some of the biggest opportunities in health lie beyond the consulting room, laboratory, or ward.

Healthcare needs more than clinicians. It needs innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, managers, and leaders who can solve complex challenges and create lasting impact. Yet most health sciences students graduate without exposure to these pathways.

The Oakvale Health Leadership & Innovation Summer Intensive bridges that gap.

In four weeks, you will study one specialist track:

You will learn from Nigerian practitioners doing this work right now. You will work in a team to tackle a real healthcare challenge. And you will earn a formally recognised UK CPD certificate.

You will not just listen to lectures. You will think through real problems, discuss them with your peers, and leave with a clearer picture of who you want to be as a health professional.

Your Specialisation

Choose Your Track

You choose one track when you apply. You stay in that track for the full four weeks. Your track shapes the modules you study, the live sessions you attend, and the team you compete with in the Innovata-thon.

For health professionals who want to understand the business of healthcare. Design, run, and lead a sustainable clinical service — from regulations and financing to quality management and operational design.

Week 1

Who You Are as a Clinician-Entrepreneur

Build your professional identity as someone who combines clinical skill with enterprise thinking. You will map the clinical services landscape in Nigeria, understand how private facilities are regulated and funded, and start to see your future practice as an enterprise that must be well managed and financially sound.

By the end of this week: You can describe what a clinician-entrepreneur is, explain the professional and ethical standards that apply, and identify your own starting point as a leader.
Week 2

How Clinical Services Work as Systems

Learn how a clinical service is designed, managed, and measured. You will study service design, supply chain management, cost structures, and performance frameworks, and connect these to real examples of clinical operations in Nigeria.

By the end of this week: You can explain how a clinical service is designed, managed, and measured, and connect this to real conditions in Nigeria.
Week 3

Global Standards and How to Apply Them

Study international best practices in clinical service design, including quality frameworks used by leading health systems worldwide. You will learn how to adapt these standards for resource-constrained environments and build quality improvement protocols that are practical and sustainable in a Nigerian context.

By the end of this week: You can describe international best practices in clinical service design and explain how to adapt them for resource-constrained environments.
Week 4

Applied Scenario and Health Innovation Challenge

Apply everything from the previous three weeks to a structured real-world scenario: running a fertility clinic in Lagos. You will diagnose operational and financial challenges, propose practical solutions, and complete your Health Innovation Challenge capstone project for the live pitch on 5 September.

By the end of this week: You have applied all four weeks of learning to a real-world scenario and completed a Service Design Roadmap ready for the Health Innovation Challenge Showcase.

For health professionals who want to influence the systems that determine health outcomes for entire communities. Think beyond the individual patient to the policies and structures that shape care at scale.

Week 1

Who You Are as a Clinician-Systems Leader

Build your professional identity as a clinician who leads within health systems, not just practises within them. You will map the structure, funding, and key performance gaps of the Nigerian public health system, and start to identify where your leadership can make a difference.

By the end of this week: You can describe the identity of a clinician-systems leader, explain how the Nigerian public health system is structured and financed, and map the key performance gaps.
Week 2

How Health Systems Work as Managed Entities

Learn how health systems are governed, financed, and managed. Using the WHO health system building block framework, you will study how governance, workforce management, and health financing interact in practice, and connect these to specific challenges in Nigerian public health delivery.

By the end of this week: You can apply the WHO building block framework to diagnose a Nigerian health system problem and explain the governance, financing, and workforce dimensions that drive it.
Week 3

Global Standards and How to Apply Them Here

Study international frameworks for health systems strengthening, including lessons from health reforms in Rwanda, Ghana, and Ethiopia. You will learn how to translate global evidence into context-specific policy recommendations and how to advocate for systems change from within the system.

By the end of this week: You can describe international frameworks for health systems strengthening and explain how to adapt them to the specific conditions of Nigerian healthcare.
Week 4

Applied Scenario and Health Innovation Challenge

Apply everything from the previous three weeks to a real-world systems challenge: strengthening maternal health services in a Nigerian state. You will design a multi-component intervention, develop a stakeholder engagement strategy, and complete your Health Innovation Challenge capstone for the live pitch on 5 September.

By the end of this week: You have completed a structured Systems Change Proposal demonstrating competence across all four weeks and delivered a live pitch at the Health Innovation Challenge Showcase.

For health professionals who are curious about technology and want to lead digital transformation in healthcare. You do not need to be a software engineer — you need to understand the problems and champion solutions that make care better.

Week 1

Who You Are as a Clinician-Innovator

Build your professional identity as a clinician who leads digital change. You will map the Nigerian digital health landscape, study your regulatory responsibilities under the NDPR and FMOH guidelines, and develop the user-centred mindset that separates effective digital health leaders from passive technology users.

By the end of this week: You can describe what a clinician-innovator is, explain your ethical and regulatory responsibilities in digital health, and articulate the user-centred approach needed to lead transformation effectively.
Week 2

How Digital Health Systems Work

Learn the core components of a digital health system: electronic health records, telemedicine platforms, mHealth tools, and health data governance. You will connect these concepts to the practical constraints of Nigerian digital health delivery and study what makes digital health products succeed or fail in the Nigerian market.

By the end of this week: You can explain the core components of a digital health system and connect these to the practical constraints and opportunities of the Nigerian market.
Week 3

Global Standards and How to Apply Them Here

Study international frameworks for digital health design, including FHIR interoperability standards, WHO digital health guidelines, and the emerging evidence on AI in clinical workflows. You will learn how to adapt these frameworks for low-bandwidth, low-resource, and shared-device contexts specific to Nigeria.

By the end of this week: You can describe international best practices in digital health design and explain how to adapt global frameworks for Nigerian infrastructure and users.
Week 4

Applied Scenario and Health Innovation Challenge

Apply everything from the previous three weeks to a structured real-world scenario: building a telemedicine service in Nigeria. You will diagnose clinical, technical, and adoption failures in an existing digital health service, redesign it using the frameworks from earlier weeks, and complete your Health Innovation Challenge capstone for the live pitch on 5 September.

By the end of this week: You have completed a structured Digital Health Solution Concept demonstrating competence across all four weeks and delivered a live pitch at the Health Innovation Challenge Showcase.

The Capstone Competition

The Oakvale Health Innovation Challenge

The Innovation Challenge is the capstone competition at the heart of the programme. In Week 3, your team will receive a real, unsolved challenge facing the Nigerian health system.

As a group, you will work on this challenge and shape a real-world solution. You have one week to develop your solution.

On Saturday 5 September 2026, every team will pitch their solution to an independent panel of industry judges.

Winners are announced the same day. The prize pool is ₦4,000,000, distributed across 4 winning teams — one overall grand prize winner and three track winners — alongside one individual student award.

Oakvale Innovation Prize

₦1,500,000

₦1,000,000 to the winning school · ₦500,000 group prize to the students.

Track Winner Prize (×3)

Track1st Place
Track A: Clinical Enterprise₦750,000
Track B: Health Systems Leadership₦750,000
Track C: Digital Health Innovation₦750,000

Per track: ₦500,000 to the winning school + ₦250,000 group prize to the students.

Most Innovative Student

₦250,000

A personal prize to the student judged most innovative across the entire programme.

Sponsors may elect to fund specific tracks, name prizes, or co-brand a winning category.

The Journey

How it works

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Step 1: Apply

Fill in the online application form. Share your institution, faculty, year of study, and preferred track. Write 150 words on why you want to join. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We are looking for genuine curiosity and commitment, not the highest grades.

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Step 2: Get accepted

Accepted students receive an invitation to join the online programme platform. You will complete a short onboarding module and introduce yourself to your track community before the programme begins.

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Step 3: Attend the Opening Ceremony

On Saturday 8 August 2026, all students gather at Julius Berger Hall, UNILAG Yaba Campus. You will hear from senior health system leaders, meet your cohort in person, and attend a practitioner session for your track. You also have the chance to hear from industry experts on possible career pathways.

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Step 4: Complete the four weeks online

Starting on Monday 10 August. Each week, an interactive module unlocks on the platform. You study it in your own time. In Week 2, we will host a guest practitioner on a live session. At the end of the week, you post a reflection and respond to a peer. In Week 3, your team will receive the Innovation Challenge brief.

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Step 5: Compete in the Innovata-thon Showcase

On 5 September, your team pitches your solution live to the judges via Zoom. All students attend. Winners are announced at the closing ceremony. You receive your UK CPD certificate the same day.

Essentials

The Details

Open toPenultimate and final-year students in Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Lab Sciences, and Physiotherapy at CMUL, LASUCOM, and EkoUnimed.
Applications open9 June 2026
Applications close2 July 2026
Opening CeremonySaturday 8 August 2026. Julius Berger Hall, UNILAG Yaba. Hybrid.
Online modules10 August to 4 September 2026
Innovata-thon ShowcaseSaturday 5 September 2026. Online via Zoom.
Application fee₦10,000. Fifteen scholarship places available: five per institution.
CertificateUK CPD-accredited certificate, formally recognised.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Attendance isn't mandatory, but attending the Opening Ceremony on 8 August is strongly encouraged. The rest of the programme is fully online.

Yes. The programme is open to all health sciences disciplines: Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Laboratory Sciences, and Physiotherapy.

Fifteen scholarship places are available — five per track. Mention in your motivation statement that you are applying for a scholarship and why. Scholarships are awarded on merit and financial need.

Plan for around three to five hours per week. This includes the self-study module, the live session, and the weekly reflection activity.

It is a team competition built into the programme. In Week 3, your team receives a real healthcare challenge. You develop a solution and pitch it live to judges on 5 September. There is a total prize pool of ₦4,000,000.

Our Partners

Organisations supporting the programme

CPD
COMPSA
EKOUMSA
LASUMA
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Applications close 2 July 2026.
Sixty places per institution across three tracks.

Three tracks. One cohort. A chance to compete for ₦4,000,000 in prizes and walk away with a UK CPD certificate. Apply now and be part of the first cohort.

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Questions? Contact the Oakvale team: hello@oakvaleltd.com | www.oakvaleltd.com