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:
Global Forum Health web site - 008
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.
All the Best.