[EQ] Call for Nominations 2009 The Carso Health Institute Awards in health, nutrition and environment

FINAL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Deadline for receiving online nominations:  January 26th, 2009

 

THE CARSO HEALTH INSTITUTE:  
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS TO THE THREE CATEGORIES OF THE 2009 CARSO AWARDS IN HEALTH, NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENT

English: http://www.salud.carso.org/ca_pcs_09_ing.html

Spanish:http://www.salud.carso.org/ca_pcs_09.html

 

The CARSO AWARDS, an initiative of the Carso Health Institute, aim at promoting the development of human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean and strengthening the formation of leaders that can push forward the research and innovation agenda in the region within the health and nutrition fields.

 

 

1.       PREMIO CARSO for Life Achievement in Research

This award honors those individuals who, after devoting their professional lives to research in the fields of health, nutrition or the environment, have irrefutably contributed to the development of the health sciences and have promoted leadership of the Latin America  region in these areas. 

 

2. PREMIO CARSO for Technological Innovation

This award is aimed at acknowledging front-line people or institutions whose promotion of innovative applications in communications technology has contributed to bringing health and its benefits closer to the population of Latin America.

 

3.   PREMIO CARSO for Outstanding Institution

This award pays tribute to those programs of non-for profit organizations whose contribution within the Latin American Region, whether academic or in the field, represents new and better health, nutrition and environmental alternatives for the population in the region.

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The CARSO AWARDS, an initiative of the Carso Health Institute, aim at promoting the development of human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean and strengthening the formation of leaders that can push forward the research and innovation agenda in the region within the health and nutrition fields.

On its first edition, the Carso Award winners were:

2008  Carso Award for Outstanding achievement in health research   -  Dr. Cesar Victora,  Brazil

2008 Carso Award for innovations in health systems   -  Dr. Guillermo Soberón,    Mexico

2008 Carso Award to outstanding institutions or programs   -   Socios en Salud ,   Sucursal Peru

 

 

Mtra. Victoria Márquez-Mees - rectora de Inversión Social

Instituto Carso de la  Salud

 

 

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