[EQ] Deadline essay competition 2008 extended until 15 May 2008 - Climate change and health - The Global Forum for Health Research - The Lancet

 

Date: 29 Apr 2008 

From: announcements@globalforumhealth.org

Deadline essay competition 2008 extended until 15 May 2008, midnight GMT.

The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet announce their third joint essay competition for the under-30s on the theme 'Climate change and health: research challenges for vulnerable populations'.

For submission criteria and instructions, please visit:

http://www.globalforumhealth.org/shlinks/yvhr2008.php

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Young voices in research for health

The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet

 

Theme: Climate change and health: research challenges for vulnerable populations

The deadline for receipt of entries is 30 April 2008

 

Website: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/005__Get%20involved/009__Essay%20Competition/003__Home.php

 

Rules and guidelines

· Authors must have been born on or after 1 January 1978.

· Each author may submit one essay only.

· Essays may be submitted in English or French and should be 1500 words maximum.

· Essays must be based on the author’s own ideas and not be derived from another source.

· Essays must not have been previously published.

· Entries are individual (i.e., the work of a single author).

· They should include original, even provocative ideas and not be technical or academic texts: tables, charts and
   figures are probably not necessary; references should be limited.

· Authors are free to be idealistic, passionate, to take established practices to task, albeit in a constructive fashion.

· Within the context of research for health, the theme allows authors to include any aspect that interests them particularly
  for example, extreme weather, natural disasters, fuels and energy, transport, water management, vectors, food production,
  demographics, urban planning, security.

 

Deadlines

· The deadline for receipt of entries is 30 April 2008.

· A shortlist will be announced by the end of June.
  Shortlisted authors will be asked to provide a high quality photograph and to confirm original authorship and date of birth.

· The winners will be notified by the beginning of August 2008. The judges’ decision will be final.

 

Prizes

· A selection of shortlisted essays will be published in an anthology as well as on the Global Forum and Lancet websites.

· Winners will be invited to take part (with all expenses paid) in the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health,
   which will take place in Bamako, Mali, from 17 to 19 November 2008.

Staff members of the Global Forum or of the Lancet or their immediate families are ineligible to enter the competition, as are authors of shortlisted essays published in 2006 and 2007.

 

For any questions, please contact susan.jupp@globalforumhealth.org or f.mclellan@elsevier.com

Susan Jupp Head, External Relations - Global Forum for Health Research
1-5 route des Morillons, PO Box 2100
1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
www.globalforumhealth.org T + 41 22 791 3450 F + 41 22 791 4394

 

 

 

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