More than 470 entries from all over the world, containing solutions to transform the field of health, have been submitted to the Making More Health: Achieving Individual, Family and Community Well-being competition.
Now, your vote will determine the three competition winners. Thirteen top finalists have been selected by the competition’s panel of expert judges.
Visit the Making More Health competition web site throughout November to read more about the finalists and cast your vote! You can also use our handy Facebook app. Three winners will each receive a prize of US $10,000.
The finalists showed an astounding range of innovative strategies to improve health, from improving slum sanitation and strengthening supply chains for reliable drugs, to fast-tracking HIV and TB diagnoses. They represent solutions that will sustainably increase the well-being of individuals, families, and communities and will go beyond, or improve upon, established health systems.
The Making More Health finalists are:
- Affordable, Quality Health Care and Services for the Underprivileged, Pakistan
- ColaLife: Piggybacking Simple Medicines on Cola Supply Chains, to Save Lives in Underserved Rural Areas in Africa, Zambia
- Cool2Care - Tackling Disability by Connecting Young Carers with Families in Need, United Kingdom
- eDOTS: Demanding Reliable Results from Tuberculosis Treatment, India
- E HealthPoint Transforming Rural Healthcare, India
- A Life-Saving Diagnosis: Sample Transport, Reducing the Time Delay in Monitoring and Diagnosing HIV and TB, Lesotho
- miraclefeet: Preventing Unnecessary Disability Caused by Untreated Clubfoot Around the World, United States
- Pathways to Wellness: Integrating Refugee Health and Well-Being, United States
- RevoLOOtionary: Developing Rural Markets for Sanitation, Cambodia
- SMS Now! A Life Depends on It, India
- Saúde Criança: Holistic Health Solutions for Families in Favelas, Brazil
- Sustainable Sanitation in Urban Slums: The Path to Permanently Reducing Sanitation-Related Disease, Kenya
- Unite For Sight, Ghana
The experts and leaders in the field of health who served as judges in the Making More Health competition include:
- Aman Bhandari, Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Dr. Andreas Barner, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Boehringer Ingelheim
- Dr. Ashwin Naik, Founder & CEO, Vaatsalya Healthcare
- Carol A. Dahl, Ph.D, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
- Edith Grynszpancholc, President, Fundación Natalí Dafne Flexer
Don’t forget that voting ends on November 30, 2011! Prize winners will be announced on December 7, 2011.
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