Case Study: Dubai Health Authority promotes healthier habits for students with Santex’s gamified health app

Dubai Health Authority launches a gamified health app concept in 2025 with Santex

The Dubai Health Authority faced the challenge of increasing youth inactivity and poor nutrition among school-aged children in a world dominated by screens. They engaged Santex in a strategic workshop to explore an engaging, scalable, and educational solution that wouldn't feel like homework for students.

Santex designed a concept for a gamified health app that rewards students with points and badges for completing wellness challenges like physical activities and logging healthy habits. The solution included a platform for teachers to create custom challenges and track class engagement, fostering healthy competition. While the app remains at the concept stage, Santex delivered a fully realized, strategy-backed design ready to inform future health and education initiatives.

Dubai Health Authority