Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) is a Canadian nonprofit organization that employs a Grand Challenges model with the aim to fund solutions for health and economic problems in low-and middle-income countries and Canada.

[1][2][3] GCC is funded primarily by the Government of Canada and hosted in the MaRS Discovery District[4] by the University Health Network in Toronto, Ontario.

[8][9] The Canadian government committed C$225 million from the 2008 Canadian federal budget over five years to support the creation of GCC with the aim of addressing global health problems in low-income countries.

[12] In June 2015, Global Affairs Canada announced an additional C$161 million in funding for the organization over ten years to support the government's Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health.

[13][14] GCC has supported a number of inventions, including the Odon device,[15] the Lucky Iron Fish,[16] the Ovillanta,[17] a Doppler fetal monitor that operates without electricity,[18] an artificial knee joint,[19] a sterile cover for hardware-store drills that transforms them into surgical instruments,[20] a flocked swab to improve diarrhea diagnosis,[21] a $5 safe-birth toolkit,[22] a low-cost 3D-printed prosthetic hand,[23] and a self-propelled powder to stop bleeding.