[afro-nets] 2007 Essay Competition

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

2007 Essay Competition
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I am delighted to tell you that we have just launched the second 
essay competition for the under-30s jointly sponsored by the 
Lancet and the Global Forum for Health Research. The competition 
is now open, through our website, and by this message I am 
asking for your help to pass on the message to all relevant 
networks and contact groups you may have. The theme of the 
competition is that of the annual meeting, ?Equitable access: 
research challenges for health in developing countries?, and the 
deadline for submissions is 20 April 2007.
 
Translations of the announcement in French, Portuguese and 
Spanish are under way and we will put these up on our website 
and use them broadly for promotion as of the beginning of next 
week. We will also produce a text in Chinese as soon as 
possible. 
 
Please encourage the best young creative minds you know to send 
us a text. We are hoping for entries covering a broad 
interpretation of the theme from all parts of the world. If you 
have any questions, don't hesitate to come back to me.
 
Susan Jupp
Head, Communications and Information
Global Forum for Health Research
mailto:jupps@who.int
http://www.globalforumhealth.org
 
 
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Forum 11, Beijing, China, 29 October to 2 November 2007
Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing 
countries
 
Young voices in research for health
 
 
The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are 
sponsoring their second joint essay competition on the occasion 
of Forum 11 the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for 
Health Research in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 29 
October to 2 November 2007.
 
Entries are invited from young professionals working in or 
interested in the broad spectrum of health research for 
development relating to some aspect of the overall theme of 
Forum 11: Equitable access: research challenges for health in 
developing countries.
 
Rules, guidelines, principles, timeframe and prizes:
 
* Essays should be no more than 1500 words and should be written 
in English.
 
* Essays must be based on the author?s own ideas and not be 
derived from another source. 
 
* They should not have been previously published.
 
* They should include original, even provocative ideas and not 
be technical or academic texts: tables, charts, figures and 
references are probably not necessary.
 
* Authors are free to be idealistic, passionate, to take 
established practices to task, albeit in a constructive fashion.
 
* Entries are individual.
 
* Each author may submit one essay only.
 
* Authors should have been born on or after 1 January 1977.
 
* The deadline for receipt of entries is 20 April 2007. 
 
* A shortlist will be announced by the end of June. Short listed 
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 2007. 
The judges? decision will be final.
 
* A selection of short listed essays will be published in an 
anthology.
 
* Winning essays will also be published on the Lancet website 
and their authors invited to take part in Forum 11 with all 
expenses paid.
 
Staff members of the Global Forum or of the Lancet or their 
immediate families are ineligible to enter the competition, as 
are authors of commended and winning entries from 2006.
 
For full details and submission of entries, see
http://www.globalforumhealth.org