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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation calls for nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health
Press Release
Contact:
Annemarie Hou
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Phone: 206.709.3265 , E-mail: media@gatesfoundation.org
Laurel Mackin
Global Health Council
Phone: 202.833.5900, E-mail: gatesaward@globalhealth.org
9.4.2001
SEATTLE-- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has issued a call for nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health. The award comes with a $1 million honorarium and is presented annually to an organization that has made an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of health around the world.
The Gates Award for Global Health program is now in its second year. This past May Melinda Gates presented the inaugural award to the Bangladesh-based Centre for Health and Population Research. The Centre is responsible for creating oral rehydration solution or ORS, a simple yet remarkably effective treatment for diarrhea. Before the Centre developed the breakthrough solution, diarrhea claimed the lives of more that four million children each year. Thanks to their pioneering work that death toll has been cut by almost two thirds.
"The award was created to recognize and support organizations which have made a sustained and widespread contribution to global health," said Dr. Gordon Perkin, Executive Director of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Around the world, organizations are making a difference every day and in the process saving millions of lives."
The award will be administered by the Global Health Council, the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to health improvement and equity globally. The winner will be selected from among the nominees by a jury composed of international health professionals and the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council. Dr. Nils Daulaire, President and CEO of the Council, lauded the Gates Foundation for its foresight in creating this award. "For decades, remarkable groups have been carrying out their life-saving work in the shadows," said Dr. Daulaire. "Now this award shines a bright light on those working every day to improve the health of the world's neediest people."
Any organization from any country in the world that has substantively improved global health 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 must be received by the Global Health
Council on or before December 5, 2001. Please note that all nominations should be sent directly to the Global Health Council, not to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The prize will be awarded at a special awards ceremony during the Global Health Council's annual international conference, which will take place this year on May 31, 2002, in Washington, D.C.
Details of the nomination process can be found on the Global Health Council's Web site, www.globalhealth.org, or by writing to Gates Award for Global Health, Global Health Council, 20 Palmer Court, White River Junction, Vermont, USA, 05001.
On the Internet:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Global Health Council - Gates Award
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community. Led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates, Sr., and Patty Stonesifer, the Seattle-based foundation has an asset base of $23.5 billion.
category: Global Health Council News : Announcements
contributed by Shawna Gibbs on 6 September 2001
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