Call for Nominations: 2009 Gairdner Global Health Award

["Steele, Deborah" <deborah.steele@usask.ca>]

Greetings From the Gairdner Foundation.

We are pleased to announce a new award called Canada Gairdner Global Health
Award which is directed at health issues pertaining to developing countries.
It recognizes those who have made major scientific advances in any one of
four areas; namely basic science, clinical science or population or
environmental health. These advances must have, or have potential to make a
significant impact on health outcomes in the developing world. Nominations
for leadership and administration, however outstanding, do not fall within
the parameters of this award.

The long-term goal of this prize is to reward and stimulate members of the
global scientific and medical community to undertake research that will lead
to advances valuable to the health of nations.

The Global Health Award consists of $100,000 (CDN), a framed certificate
with appropriate citation and a specially designed sculpture.

Details about the award are given below and can be found online at
http://www.gairdner.org/awards/nominati/globalheal

Yours sincerely

THE GAIRDNER FOUNDATION

John H. Dirks, M. D.
President & Scientific Director

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Canada Gairdner Global Health Award 


Purpose and Conditions

The purpose for the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is the recognition
of individual whose seminal scientific work constitutes a discovery or a
highly tangible achievement toward improving our knowledge of and
application to global health, and also to generate scientific momentum in
the field as well as augmenting public awareness.

   1. The Prize will be valued at $100,000 each.
   2. The Prize is to be used by the recipient for personal use.
   3. A Global Health Advisory Committee will be responsible for selecting a
short list of candidates for presentation to the Medical Advisory Board.
   4. The Board of Directors of the Gairdner Foundation will approve the
selection of the winner.
   5. Awards are made to residents of any country without restriction of
gender, race, religion, creed or nationality.
   6. The Prize may be presented either at the time of Canada Gairdner
International Awards in October or at a special event in Ottawa in the
spring.
   7. The first Prize will be given on October 29, 2009, on the occasion of
the Foundation's 50th Anniversary Awards Dinner in Toronto.


Nominations

   1. The Gairdner Foundation will invite those in the international
scientific health and medical community to nominate candidates for the
Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.
   2. Nomination letters should describe the key role of the nominee (s) in
relevant successful advances and should be accompanied by a full curriculum
vitae with a complete mailing address and at least two supporting letters
that detail a major discovery or sustained advance.
   3. The work of the nominee should be compared with that of others in the
field, together with clearly articulated reasons why this work distinguishes
the nomineešs work from others in the same scientific topic.
   4. If two or three are nominated to share the Prize, the reasons why it
should be shared must be clearly delineated.
   5. The nomination deadline for the first award is November 1, 2008 and
nominations should be sent to the President of the Gairdner Foundation.
   6. A call for nominations will be published on The Gairdner Foundation
website and suitably advertised in appropriate scientific journals.
   7. Nominations will be held for up to 3 years, but must be updated
annually.

Selection Process

   1. The Gairdner Foundation President will form a Gairdner Foundation/
International Global Health Award Advisory Committee consisting of at least
five members.
   2. The Advisory Committee will reflect international composition in the
field of Global Health with a clear understanding of the basic clinical and
social science issues in global and population health.
   3. The President of The Gairdner Foundation will appoint the Chairman and
members of the Advisory Committee.
   4. The Advisory Committee will meet in person or via teleconference to
review all nominations and consult together as necessary, with an agenda and
attachments (if any) mailed for receipt by each no less than ten days in
advance.
   5. The Advisory Committee will normally select the recipient no later
than January of the year in which the award is to be made.
   6. The selection will be submitted to the Medical Advisory Board for
final selection and to The Gairdner Foundation Board of Directors for formal
approval no later than January 31st of the award year.
   7. All selections are final and not subject to review or challenge.

Announcement

   1. A formal announcement of the awardee will be made at least three
months prior to the annual Canada Gairdner Foundation awards presentation.
   2. The Gairdner Foundation will insure that a prime time slot is allotted
for prize presentation and a major lecture by the awardee.
   3. The lecture may be given as a keynote before a full Symposium as it is
anticipated that the Prize will be an incentive to have a state-of-the art
symposium on advances in global health studies.
   4. Logistics for presentation ceremony for Canada Gairdner Global Health
Award will be the responsibility of the Gairdner Foundation.


Nominations for 2009 should be postmarked no later than October 1, 2008.
(Please note that this is a strict deadline date.) Nominations received
after that date will be considered the following year.


Please submit in electronic format (MS Word or PDF) to
nominations@gairdner.org and in hard copy to:

John H. Dirks, MD
President & Scientific Director
The Gairdner Foundation
44 Charles Street West
Suite 4706
Toronto, ON M4Y 1R8

Phone: 416-596.9996
Fax: 416-596-9992
E-Mail: nominations@gairdner.org
Web Site: http://www.gairdner.org

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