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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announces $1 Million Prize for Global Health
SEATTLE - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is establishing a $1 million prize to be awarded in the field of global health. The Gates Award for Global Health will be presented annually to an organization that has made an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of health around the globe.
"This award will bring much deserved recognition to the groups that are dedicating themselves to promoting better health for all the citizens of the world," said Dr. Gordon Perkin, Director of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"The Foundation is pleased to highlight the important work being carried out around the world to reduce the health gap between the rich and the poor."
An international call for nominations is going out today. The winner will be selected from among the nominees by the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council, the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to health improvement and equity globally.
"This is a great day for global health," said Nils Daulaire, President and CEO of the Global Health Council. "By establishing this remarkable prize, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is shining a spotlight on those groups whose work may not make daily headlines, but who make an enormous difference in improving health for all the world's people."
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; 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, February 28, 2001.
The prize will be awarded at a special awards ceremony during the Global Health Council's annual international conference, which will take place on May 31, 2001, in Washington, D.C.
Details of the nomination process can be found on the Global Health Council's Web site at http://www.globalhealth.org/awards/gates_info.php3
For more information you may also contact:
Trevor Neilson
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Phone: 206.709.3100
E-mail: media@gatesfoundation.org
Annemarie Hou
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Phone: 206.709.3265
E-mail: media@gatesfoundation.org
Terry Fisher
Global Health Council
Phone: 802.649.1340
E-mail: gatesaward@globalhealth.org
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 approximately $21 billion.
Preventing deadly diseases among poor children by expanding access to vaccines, and developing vaccines against malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, are central priorities.
Other major efforts include extending unprecedented opportunities for learning by bringing computers with Internet access to every eligible public library in the U.S. and Canada, and providing scholarships to academically talented minority students in the U.S. with severe financial need through the Gates Millennium Scholars Program (http://www.gmsp.org). For complete information and grant guidelines, visit http://www.gatesfoundation.org.
category: Global Health Council News : Awards & Grants
contributed by GHC Webmaster on 6 December 2000
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