Communications Award
Purpose of the Award
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Communications
Award will recognize exceptional achievement in tropical medicine
journalism with the potential to educate lay readers and inform public
policy regarding diseases and health conditions specific to poor and
underserved populations. The ASTMH Communications Award will honor an
individual author (or authors contributing to a body of work) as opposed
to an employer, publisher or institution. Eligible entries will include
feature-length newspaper articles, magazine articles or series published
in lay-oriented periodicals. Full-length books, book chapters, and
articles published solely on-line and broadcast journalism will not be
considered at this time. Original scientific research articles or
technical reports, newsletter articles and promotional copy are not
eligible for the Award.
Award
ASTMH will award a cash prize of $2,000 to the winner of the ASTMH
Communications Award. The 2010 award will be presented at the ASTMH 59th
Annual Meeting, to be held November 3-7, 2010, in Atlanta, GA.
Reasonable travel and hotel expenses of the principal author of the
award-winning article will also be reimbursed.
Nomination, Eligibility, and
Judging
Any ASTMH member in good standing may nominate a work. Non-ASTMH members
who are the authors of eligible works may also self-submit, as may their
publications. For the current round of competition, eligible works must
have been published in an English-language magazine or newspaper between
1 August 2009 and 1 August 2010.
The nomination deadline is August 4,
2010.
All entries will undergo initial scoring according to a
standardized rating form, leading to three to five final nominees. A
five-person Communications Award Judging Committee consisting of three
ASTMH members and two professional science journalists will make its
final recommendation to the ASTMH executive council regarding this
year’s winner by mid-September.
Rules for Submission
Entries must meet the purpose stated above. Any ASTMH member, including
the author, may submit material. Non-ASTMH members who are authors of
eligible works may also self-submit. There is no submission fee. Entries
should be submitted online as PDF or electronic files. The nominated
work must be accompanied by a completed online nomination form.
Nomination Form
Submit your
nomination online here by August 4, 2010.
Past Winners
2009
Vivienne Walt
Time Magazine
"Death in Birth"
Honorable Mention
Laurie Garrett
Newsweek
“Path of a Pandemic”
Andrew Jack
Financial Times
"Combating Malaria"
Stephanie Nolen
The Globe and Mail
“Why Are Millions Starving in a Booming India?”
2008
Charles Piller and Doug Smith
Los Angeles Times
"Unintended Victims of Gates Foundation
Generosity"
Honorable
Mention
Susan Okie
New England Journal of Medicine
“A
New Attack on Malaria”
Patrick Skelly
Natural History
“Sex and the Single Schistosome”
2007
Michael Leahy
The Washington Post
“Breaking
the Cycle”
Honorable Mention
Laurie Garrett
Foreign Affairs
“The
Challenge of Global Health”
Martin Enserink
Science Magazine
“Welcome
to Ethiopia’s Fly Factory”
Robert Poole
Smithsonian Magazine
“The
Ethiopia Campaign”
2006
Celia Dugger and Donald McNeil*
The New York Times
“On
the Brink”
*cash prize declined per New York Times policy
Honorable Mention
John Donnelly
The Boston Globe
“Life
Stories Part 1 and 2: Outlasting AIDS in Africa”
Michael Specter
The New Yorker Magazine
“What
Money Can Buy. Millions of Africans die needlessly of diseases each
year. Can Bill Gates change that?”
Richard Stone
Science Magazine
“Combating
the Bird Flu Menace, Down on the Farm”
2005
Leslie Roberts
Science
“Rotavirus
Vaccines’ Second Chance”
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Bails and Luis Fabregas
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
“An
Unfinished Miracle”
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