Future Health
Digital Innovation Challenge

The Challenge

Male reproductive health is too often treated as a late-stage infertility issue rather than a routine part of preventive and preconception care. Men may enter the pathway only after prolonged difficulty conceiving or after the female partner has undergone assessment. This delays identification of modifiable, metabolic, infectious, anatomical or semen-related risk factors and can narrow the available choices for the individual and couple. Abu Dhabi’s reproductive health direction is to move upstream: awareness and prevention across life stages, earlier risk detection, integrated digital and genomic-enabled care, and a more connected patient journey. Population Health Intelligence design work also recognizes that male and female infertility require distinct risk models and pathways. The remaining gap is a trusted, low friction front door for men one that reduces stigma and inconvenience, protects highly sensitive information, and translates risk signals into appropriate clinical action. The solution must be designed around religious, social, and cultural sensitivities.

Objective

Help men understand and act on reproductive health risks earlier, make assessment easier and more private to access, and guide them to the right care.

Your solution should

1. 1Earlier, explainable risk identification. Use, where possible, consented history, lifestyle, metabolic, infectious, anatomical and available test inputs to identify relevant risk signals before infertility is diagnosed, while clearly distinguishing screening from diagnosis.
2. 2A culturally trusted experience. Provide discreet and understandable communication that reflects religious, social and cultural sensitivities; avoiding stigma and assumptions about family choices.
3. 3Lower-friction assessment. Remove a material access barrier through options such as private digital intake, teleconsultation, and at-home steps where clinically appropriate, clear service navigation or reduced unnecessary visits.
4. 4Safe triage and referral. Direct users to an appropriate next step: self-care information, primary care, andrology/urology, fertility services or urgent assessment, with red flags, clinical boundaries and human oversight made explicit.
5. 5Privacy by design. Use explicit consent, data minimization, user-controlled sharing, strong access controls, and a clear explanation of how reproductive data will and will not be used.
6. 6Demonstrable value. Show performance on realistic or simulated cases and report measures such as completed assessments, time to appropriate evaluation, referral completion, user trust and fairness across relevant population groups.