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Communications Award
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), founded in 1903, is a worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians, and program professionals whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor. Research, health care and education are the central activities of ASTMH members, whose work bridges basic laboratory research to international field work and clinics to country-wide programs.
Specific ASTMH goals include:
- improving the health of people worldwide
- advancing research on tropical diseases
- fostering international scientific collaboration
- supporting career development in tropical medicine and global health
- educating medical professionals, policymakers and the public about tropical
medicine and global health
- promoting science-based policy regarding tropical medicine and global health
- recognizing exceptional achievement in tropical medicine and global health
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 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. Articles published solely on-line and broadcast journalism will not be considered at this time. Original research 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 2008 award will be presented at the ASTMH 57th Annual Meeting, to be held December 7-11, 2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana. 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 2007 and 1 August 2008.
Nominations must be received at ASTMH headquarters by 5 August 2008.
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 one-page nomination form.
Online Nomination Process
Submit your nomination on line by August 5, 2008 at http://www.astmh.org/award/index.cfm. Your nomination must include a pdf, Microsoft Word or text file of the nominated work.
2005
Leslie Roberts
Science
“Rotavirus Vaccines’ Second Chance”
http://www.sciencemag.org/index.dtl
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Bails and Luis Fabregas
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
“An Unfinished Miracle”
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/unfinishedmiracle/
2006
Celia Dugger and Donald McNeil*
The New York Times
“On the Brink”
*cash prize declined per New York Times policy
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/2006_BRINK_SERIES.html
Honorable Mention
John Donnelly
The Boston Globe
“Life Stories Part 1 and 2: Outlasting AIDS in Africa”
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2006/07/09/
in_a_land_of_disease_some_find_hope_and_a_future/
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2006/07/10/
hospice_angels_of_death_become_partners_in_survival/
Michael Specter
The New Yorker Magazine
“What Money Can Buy. Millions of Africans die needlessly of diseases each year. Can Bill Gates change that?”
http://www.michaelspecter.com/ny/2005/2005_10_24_gates.html
Richard Stone
Science Magazine
“Combating the Bird Flu Menace, Down on the Farm”
http://www.sciencemag.org/index.dtl
2007
Michael Leahy
The Washington Post
“Breaking the Cycle”
http://www.astmh.org/awards/breaking_cycle.cfm
Honorable Mention
Laurie Garrett
Foreign Affairs
“The Challenge of Global Health”
http://www.astmh.org/awards/global_health.cfm
Martin Enserink
Science Magazine
“Welcome to Ethiopia’s Fly Factory”
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5836/310?maxtoshow=&HITS=10
&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=welcome+to+ethiopia%27s+fly+factory
&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Robert Poole
Smithsonian Magazine
“The Ethiopia Campaign”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/africa-middleeast/10024541.html
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