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Celebrating Partnerships & Policymakers driving Global Health Innovation

GHTC has opened nominations for our 2024 Innovating for Impact Awards. Now in its eighth year, this initiative recognizes the research partnerships and US policymakers that help transform breakthrough scientific research into lifesaving drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, and other health tools for unmet global health challenges.

Awards are presented annually in two categories:

Click one of the awards buttons below to view eligibility criteria and begin the nomination process.

Partnership Award
Congressional Champion Award

Innovating for Impact Partnership Award

Honors an innovative research and development (R&D) partnership, supported by the US government, that brings together industry, government, nonprofits, academia, or other partners to advance a high-impact, game-changing global health technology.

Nomination Criteria and Eligibility

Partnership must be specifically designed to develop, advance, and bring to scale an urgently needed drug, diagnostic, vaccine, or other tool for an unmet global health need.
Tool advanced through the partnership must be high impact, or have the potential for high impact, on the unmet global health need or target population.
Partnership must include two or more entities from different sectors (i.e., government agency, nonprofit, academic institution, private industry, etc.) and must have received federally funded research support or in-kind support from a US government agency.
Innovation must address a historically neglected disease, an emerging infectious disease, or another critical health challenge in low-resource settings worldwide.
Representatives from the partnership must be willing to be featured in content created for the awards (video, event, etc.). Time commitment will be minimal.

Partnership Award Nomination Form

Please fill out the questions below. ^* denotes a required response

Nominator Information

Your first name ^*

Your last name ^*

Title / Position

Organization affiliation

Your email address ^*

Nominee Information

Contact for the partnership (name and organization) ^*

Contact’s email address ^*

Contact’s phone

Contact’s mailing address

Please list the organizations in the partnership, including the US agency providing support ^*

What is the innovation that the R&D partnership has advanced, or is working to advance? Please describe (250 word limit) ^*

How does this innovation represent a breakthrough in global health R&D? What impact, or potential impact, will it have on health outcomes in low-resource communities around the world? (Please consider the scale of the global health challenge; state of technology; how the innovation addresses unmet needs identified by end-user communities and how they were consulted in the development; and product affordability, acceptability, accessibility, etc.) (500 word limit) ^*

What were the unique contributions of partners in advancing this innovation? Why was the partnership critical to advancing this innovation? (500 word limit) ^*

Optional: Please provide any additional information, links, or documentation that supports your nomination and helps tell the story of why the partnership is deserving of this award.

Innovating for Impact Congressional Champion Award

Honors two US members of Congress whose actions have strengthened political will and advanced US efforts to develop technologies to fight the world’s most challenging diseases and health conditions.

Nomination Criteria and Eligibility

Nominee must be a sitting member of the US Congress.
Honoree must be willing to deliver acceptance remarks for the award.

Congressional Champion Award Nomination Form

Please fill out the questions below. ^* denotes a required response

Nominator Information

Your first name ^*

Your last name ^*

Title / Position

Organization affiliation

Your email address ^*

Nominee Information

Member of Congress name ^*

Member of Congress state and party affiliation ^*

Contact in member of Congress’ office

Contact’s email address

Contact’s phone

How has this member of Congress used their position to support R&D for unmet global health, pandemic preparedness, or health security needs for low-resource settings? Please provide any relevant, concrete examples (e.g., sponsored legislation, worked to increase funding, authored op-ed or thought piece, issued a public statement, etc.) (500 word limit) ^*

Why is support from this member of Congress important to advancing the global health R&D ecosystem? How are they positioned to take future, influential action in support of global health R&D? (500 word limit) ^*

Optional: What drives the member of Congress' support for global health R&D? Is there a personal motivation or life experience that drives their engagement on these issues?

Optional: Please provide any additional information, links, or documentation that supports your nomination and helps tell the story of why the nominee is a global health R&D champion.

The submission deadline is Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Anyone is eligible to submit nominations, and self-nominations are welcome. Click below for additional details about our selection process and answers to frequently asked questions.

Selection Process & Other FAQs
- Honorees will be editorially selected by a committee of leaders from the global health and research communities.
- Honorees will be recognized in early December 2024 at an event in Washington, DC.
- Organizations and/or individuals are not limited in the number of nominations they submit.
- Self-nominations are welcome. Nominator name/details are hidden from the selection committee as part of the selection process. This information is only collected in case there are technical issues with receipt of the nomination that require follow-up.
- All nomination materials submitted will become the property of GHTC which organizes the Innovating for Impact Awards.