The nomination deadline for the Gates Award is October 31, 2008.
In December, 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the establishment of the International Gates Award for Global Health. The Gates Award has been established to recognize an organization yearly that has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health.
The prize consists of a distinctive award sculpture and a prize amount of 1 million dollars.
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 Gates Award for Global Health recognizes past achievements and the promise of continuing activity and improvement.
Any organization from any country in the world that has substantively improved the health and the lives of people in need may be nominated for the Gates Award for Global Health; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company, or a public entity.
Nominations will be considered by an international jury consisting of health professionals from developing countries and the Global Health Council’s Board of Directors. Nominations submitted will be reviewed by this jury and a winner will be selected. The jury member names will be publicized on the Global Health Council website once it is established.
The award will be presented in Washington, D.C., at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council’s Annual International Conference. The winner’s name is embargoed until the time of the ceremony.
This will be the 9th year that this award will be presented. The past seven recipients have represented a broad range of global health players. They are:
2001 ICDDR, B, a research-based organization
2002 Rotary, a large service based organization
2003Brazil’s National AIDS Program, a governmental program
2004 BRAC, a community-based health program
2005 AMREF, an organization who’s mission is to improve the health of disadvantaged people in Africa as a means for them to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives
2006 The Carter Center, guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering
2007 The Population and Community Development Association, leading the way in Thailand with their groundbreaking AIDS and Positive Partnerships programs
2008 Aravind Eye Care System, fulfilling their mission of eradicating needless blindness through highly effective sustainability models
