This edited volume examines cutting-edge innovations and entrepreneurial approaches that are reshaping healthcare delivery in the Global South. It focuses on recent research, technological advancements, AI-driven healthcare solutions, business model innovations, and new healthcare service delivery systems in resource-limited settings across the Global South. The book is intended for academics, researchers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and development practitioners seeking to understand and apply innovative solutions to pressing healthcare challenges.The main topics explore how emerging technologies, innovation, and entrepreneurship can address critical gaps in access, affordability, and quality of care in low- and middle-income countries, where nearly half of the population lacks access to essential healthcare services. Improving healthcare in these regions requires the introduction and scaling of technology-driven health innovation ideas that are adaptable to local contexts.By bringing together cutting-edge research on health innovation, as well as new business models and service delivery approaches from both laboratory and field settings, the book aims to provide actionable frameworks for improving healthcare outcomes, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and inspiring innovation that leads to equitable, efficient, and sustainable health systems in the Global South.

Dr. Forhad Hossain is an academic, entrepreneur, and educator committed to advancing Empathy-Driven Entrepreneurship (EDE)—an emerging approach that places human needs, dignity, and social impact at the heart of entrepreneurship and innovation. Drawing on more than a decade of academic and industry experience, his work spans entrepreneurship, social business, sustainability, digital transformation, and health innovation. Through research and teaching, he seeks to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs who measure success not only by profit, but by their ability to reduce poverty, unemployment, inequality, and other societal challenges while creating sustainable economic value. His long-term vision is to develop EDE into a globally relevant field of research, education, and practice, connecting universities, entrepreneurs, policymakers, industry, and communities across developed and developing economies to build more inclusive, peaceful, and sustainable societies.

Dr. Mohammad Saud Khan is a Senior Lecturer in the area of Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests span innovation management and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on how individuals, teams and organizations create and capture value in changing institutional, technological, cultural and emerging-market contexts. His work has appeared in leading international journals, including the Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Journal of Global Information Management, British Food Journal, Project Management Journal, Management Decision, Leisure Studies and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital and the Journal of Innovation Management, alongside editorial board positions at several other international journals, including Management Decision. His work brings an interdisciplinary and international perspective to understanding how innovation and entrepreneurship can contribute to sustainable value creation and development in the Global South.

Dr. Sambit Dash is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Manipal University College Malaysia. With more than 16 years of experience in teaching and research, he connects basic science, medical education, and healthcare innovation. He has worked in hospital biochemistry labs, helped develop policy such as India’s national COVID-19 testing handbook, and led projects in digital health and medical education reform. As a co-creator of Manipal MedAce, a digital learning platform, and an early adopter of AI and XR in teaching, he supports technology-driven healthcare education. His research and writing focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and public policy for fair healthcare systems in the Global South. His experience highlights this volume’s focus on using technology and entrepreneurship to strengthen health systems in areas with limited resources.