Past Award Recipients
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Background & Criteria
Past Award Recipients
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Best Practices in Global Health Award - Past Award Recipients |
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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
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 2009 Award Recipient
Dr. Harshad Sanghvi
Dr. Harshad Sanghvi is a Vice President and Medical Director of Jhpiego and has been a staunch and passionate voice in addressing the issue of post partum hemorrhaging (PPH) for more than 25 years. As an OB/GYN physician from Kenya, he saw firsthand the devastating impact PPH had not only on the mother’s life but also its effect on her family, most especially the lives of her children. He is known as a visionary who tirelessly advocates for the needs of women living in poor and vulnerable populations by addressing the issues that contribute to PPH. In 2000, Dr. Sanghvi led the SAFE (Safe, Acceptable, Feasible and Effective) demonstration project to study PPH in Indonesia. The study evaluated a community-based approach where community volunteers were trained to provide information and counsel pregnant women during a first contact home visit and again when the woman are eight months pregnant. At that the second visit the community volunteer provided the woman with a uterotonic drug to use after she delivered her child.
Results showed that women who took misoprostol correctly, demonstrated that trained and supervised community volunteers can successfully share health information with pregnant women who are unlikely to be reached by skilled providers, and that the women can understand this information and correctly use misoprostol to prevent PPH at a home birth. Dr. Sanghvi took the innovation to Nepal and Afghanistan. Working with the Ministries of Health, Dr. Sanghvi introduced community-based distribution of misoprostol for the prevention of PPH in home births. As a result of his efforts, Jhpiego has gone on to assist Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Pakistan, Kenya and Uganda in integrating community-based distribution of misoprostol into their national health policy and infrastructure.
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 2008 Award Recipient
Dr. Bette Gebrian
Bette Gebrian, PhD, is the Director of Public Health for the
Haitian Health Foundation (HHF). She developed the Child Survival Project that supplies health care to and tracks the medical status of more than 130,000 people in more than 100 villages through Health Track, a sophisticated computer health information system.
The Project also provides access to medical services to approximately 70,000 others. She regularly provides technical assistance to other Haitian organizations, as well as organizations in Africa, to help them adopt the same system.
Another of her prominent achievements is the implementation of birth spacing practices to improve health in the Haitian population. Based on the Lactational Amenorrhea Method, the program promotes increased time between pregnancies while supporting the life-saving intervention of exclusive breastfeeding. The successful program works through locally trained Haitian "Agents de Sante" who serve 104 villages surrounding Jeremie, Haiti, and through groups enabling people to share experiences and information relating to nutrition, health care, and other topics impacting their quality of life.
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 2007 Award Recipient
Maria Luisa Ortiz Cooperative and Women’s Center
After the Contra-Sandinista war in the 1980s, a group of war-displaced women set up the Maria Luisa Ortiz Cooperative to rebuild their lives. In 1990, they asked Dorothy Granada, an American nurse of Chicana-Filipina roots from the United States, to organize a health service for women. From almost nothing, Granada, the cooperative, and their allies created a thriving clinic. Monthly, they now serve nearly a thousand patients, and provide counseling for almost one-third of them. In a setting where citizens continued to carry out hostilities of the Contra war, they created a clinic open to all, where nonviolence and tolerance is the rule. The practice of treating the community as a whole has been the most successful unifying aspect of the whole project. Beginning with reproductive health services to women, and primary care for their children, the programs have grown in response to the needs expressed by the women of the community.
Dorothy Granada and the cooperative leadership are currently investigating ways of facilitating the establishment of self-sustaining primary care clinics in remote areas of the Municipality of Mulukuku. Stronger links of cooperation are being developed with the Nicaraguan ministry of health. The hopes are that winning this award will broadcast this clinic/community model as an example of women’s self-determination and what can be achieved in global health in poor countries.
2007 Annual Conference Award Winners - HealthLink issue 145 article
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 2006 Award Recipient
Kangaroo Foundation
Fundacion Canguro (Kangaroo Foundation) has promoted for the past 17 years the delivery of high-quality care for the high-risk newborn infant, making this care available through scientifically sound, humane and cost-effective situations even where resources are a scarcity. The foundation’s purpose is accomplished by promoting research, evaluating and enhancing interventions, and disseminating results through publication and training of health professionals with the highest possible quality standards.
It is estimated that 5 million infants die every year during the first month of life, and in two-thirds of these cases, the deaths are related to premature infants of low birth weight. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) was devised in Colombia and promotes skin-to-skin contact by carrying the infant kangaroo style, with the mother providing heat and stimulation. This method is now being used worldwide.
The major goals of the Kangaroo Foundation are to establish the safety and efficacy of KMC. The foundation works to disseminate KMC to other developing country institutions by training health-care teams. More than 44 multidisciplinary health-care teams in 25 developing countries have been trained mainly in Latin America, Asia, India and Africa.
The model of KMC that the foundation has chosen is “see one, do one, teach one.” Translated, it means to extend KMC to other geographical locations by inviting health-care leaders to be trained in one of the KMC centers, so they, in turn, can implement the program in their home institutions and then train other centers in their regions.
Kangaroo Foundation Receives Best Practices Award - HealthLink issue 139 article
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 2005 Award Recipient
Riders for Health
Riders for Health has worked for 15 years on the problem of health-care delivery systems in Africa. It is the only not-for-profit organization whose practical work is creating a system of transportation infrastructure to allow vital health-care services to reach millions of people in rural communities and those isolated by distance, hostile conditions and poverty. Riders' mission is to ensure that motorized vehicles used for the delivery of health care and associated development are appropriate and available for the maximum time at the minimum cost.
Council Honors Riders for Health with Best Practices Award - Council press release
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 2004 Award Recipient
Dr. Catherine Hamlin
Dr. Catherine Hamlin and her husband co-founded the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia in 1974. Fistula Hospital has developed the model program for fistula treatment worldwide, and has inspired numerous centers throughout the developing world. It is considered the preeminent hospital dedicated exclusively to victims of obstetric fistula and is the world center for fistula treatment, long-term care, prevention, and training.
Dr. Catherine Hamlin Awarded the "Alternative Nobel" Prize - The Right Livelihood Award
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 2003 Award Recipient
Angela J. Sawyerr-Kamara
Professor Angela J. Sawyerr-Kamara is the founder and director of the Regional Prevention of Maternal Mortality Program (RPMM), based in Ghana, with programs in 20 African countries. Prof. Kamara leads a network of multidisciplinary teams dedicated to reducing maternal mortality in Africa.
Advancing the Fight Against Maternal Mortality - HealthLink issue 121 article
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 2002 Award Recipient
Dr. Fatima-Zohra Akalay
Dr. Fatima-Zohra Akalay is the country director in Morocco for Helen Keller International (a division of Helen Keller Worldwide). She was honored for her work in fighting blindness and illiteracy in Morocco through innovative programs that incorporate healthcare and health education into the national literacy program.
Fostering Health Through Literacy - HealthLink issue 115 article
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 2001 Award Recipient
Sydia Nduna
Since 1989, Sydia Nduna has worked as a gender consultant with OXFAM, the United Nations and many others. She started the Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) project in Tanzania for IRC in 1996 and acted as program coordinator for three years. Ms. Nduna now lives in Geneva and works as an SGBV consultant globally.
Best Practices in Global Health - HealthLink issue 109 article
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 2000 Award Recipient
Ram Shrestha
Ram Shrestha is the executive director of the Nepali Technical Assistance Group, and he has been honored for his work in the National Vitamin A Program in Nepal. This program, which has reached over 80 percent of Nepal's districts, is responsible for a 30 percent reduction in child mortality in Nepal. He was able to educate and motivate over 35,000 community women throughout his country not only to promote the importance of, but also to implement the Vitamin A program. His tireless efforts will have a lasting impact on the health of the Nepalese community.
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 1999 Award Recipient
Susan Purdin
Susan Purdin is the global technical advisor for the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium. Between 1998-1999, she worked in refugee sites worldwide; Kenya, Southern Sudan, Guinea, Liberia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Thailand, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. The position of Global Technical Advisor (GTA) was created in order to provide on-site expert guidance to programs serving the reproductive health needs of refugees, worldwide.
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