Rock Health Innovation Fellowship

The RockHealth.org Innovation Fellowship is a cohort-based fellowship for U.S.-based digital health founders and CEOs who use lived experience and community proximity to build solutions for underserved populations. The fellowship focuses on leadership support, ecosystem exposure, fundraising readiness, market awareness, health equity, policy, AI strategy, and growth.

The fellowship operates on the premise that meaningful digital health innovation requires deep understanding of patient and community experiences. It focuses on addressing health inequities across underserved populations by learning from innovators who ground their work in the lived experiences of the communities they serve.

Designed for Founders, Operators. The program is hybrid. Participation is generally part time.

The fellowship seeks leaders who are building or planning to build in digital health, demonstrate commitment to centering lived experience and health equity, have relevant professional background or demonstrated passion for health innovation, and are ready to engage deeply in a peer cohort experience.

The fellowship seeks leaders who are building or planning to build in digital health, demonstrate commitment to centering lived experience and health equity, have relevant professional background or demonstrated passion for health innovation, and are ready to engage deeply in a peer cohort experience.

Fellows gain access to Rock Health's extensive network of investors, founders, and healthcare leaders, participate in monthly group sessions with peers and mentors, and engage in field site visits and ecosystem immersion.

The program lasts for seven months, typically including a mix of remote and potentially in-person touchpoints.

Rock Health has hosted 44 fellows across the program's history, with the last two cohorts alone raising over $50 million in capital for digital health ventures. Fellows have gone on to launch companies, join leading health tech organizations, and advance important health innovation initiatives.