Global Health Council Accepting Nominations for Gates Award for Global Health

Deadline: October 31, 2004

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health. 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 will be considered by a jury consisting of health professionals from developing countries as well as the Global Health Council's Board of Directors.

Organizations cannot nominate themselves. Preference will be given to organizations as a whole, but long standing and organizationally discrete programs within organizations will not be excluded.

Nominees must be organizations that have been in operation for a minimum of ten years. Nongovernmental, charitable, or nonprofit entities; private companies; government agencies; universities; and multilateral organizations are all eligible for consideration. Preference will be given to nongovernmental organizations and nonprofit organizations.

Complete nomination information and selection criteria are available at the Global Health Council Web site at http://globalhealth.org/view_top.php3?id=237.

About the Global Health Award
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation established the $1 million Gates Award for Global Health to recognize an organization that has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health. The annual award is administered by the Global Health Council.