Research Announcements
The Gates Award for Global Health, Deadline Oct 31
http://www.globalhealth.org/conference_2010/view_top.php3?id=1004
The Gates Award for Global Health was established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reward and exemplify organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings, with measurable results. The Award recognizes past achievements and the promise of continuing activity and improvement.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Saturday, October 31, 2009.
The Award will be presented in Washington, D.C. at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council’s Annual International Conference, June 14-18, 2010.
Nomination Guidelines
Nominees
Organizations cannot nominate themselves. Preference will be given to organizations as a whole, but long standing and organizationally discrete programs within organizations will not be excluded.
Nominees must be organizations that have been in operation for a minimum of 10 years. Non-governmental, charitable or nonprofit entities, private companies, government agencies, universities and multilateral organizations are all eligible for consideration. Preference will be given to Non-governmental organizations and not for profit organizations.
Documentation of United States Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt status, or the equivalent for international organizations, is required for nonprofit institutions and must be faxed or mailed to the Global Health Council when requested by the Awards Program Staff.
Nominees must be in current good financial standing and be able to supply documentation that supports its financial status and its ability to manage a prize of this magnitude. Documentation will include, but is not limited to, annual reports, financial statements and tax filings.
Contact with any jurors or Global Health Council staff for the purpose of currying favor for a nominee may subject that nominee to disqualification.
Nominators
While the nominator should have direct knowledge of the nominated organization’s work, he or she may not be an officer, employee, or board member of the nominated organization. Also, a nominator may not be a family member of an officer, employee, or board member of the nominated organization. The nominator must describe his or her association with the nominee. No member of the Gates Award Jury may nominate an organization. The nominator will complete a standardized form to help with consistency in the judging process. The nominator will disclose any financial or other interactions with the nominee in the last five years.
Award Background & Criteria
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people’s lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community. The Seattle-based foundation is led by Bill Gates, his wife Melinda French Gates and Gates’ father, William H. Gates Sr.
The foundation’s Global Health Program is focused on reducing global health inequities by accelerating the development, deployment and sustainability of health interventions that will save lives and dramatically reduce the disease burden in developing countries.
The Global Health Council is the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to health improvement and equity globally. Its mission is to promote better health around the world by assisting all who work for improvement and equity in global health to secure the information and resources they need to work effectively.
Any organization from any country in the world that has had a systemic and lasting impact on global health may be nominated for the Gates Award; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company or a public entity.
In submitting nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health, emphasis should be placed on an organization’s accomplishments to date. Applications should include a brief history of how the organization has made a sustained contribution in the field of global health. Nominators may wish to consider the following criteria in describing the Nominee’s work:
* Extraordinary contributions toward progress in the knowledge and practice of health in low-income societies, with a substantial and sustainable impact on the principal issues that contribute to global health.
* An established record of achievement.
* Innovation in program design.
* Organizational capacity; i.e. evidence of financial and program stability.
* Collaboration with others.
* Evidence that contributions have had significant influence or have been adopted across geographic and organizational boundaries.
Nominations will be considered by a Jury consisting of health professionals from developing countries as well as the Global Health Council’s Board of Directors. A winner will be selected by the Jury from the nominations submitted.
Posted Sep 14, 2009