The Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights

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The Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights

The Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights was

established in 1999 to honor Dr. Mann and highlight the

vital link between health and human rights. Sponsored by three

founding organizations, Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, Doctors

of the World, and the Global Health Council, the award is bestowed

annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights and

comes with a substantial financial reward.

Despite his untimely death in a 1998 plane crash, Mann is

considered by many to be one of the most important figures in the

20th century fight against global poverty, illness and social

injustice.

As the first director of the World Health Organization's Special

Program on AIDS from 1986-1990, Dr. Mann pioneered the approach to

AIDS that continues to shape public health policy today. As the

François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at

Harvard University from 1990-1997, Dr. Mann began to articulate the

ways in which the health of individuals and populations reflects

access to basic human rights, using as his warrant his years as a

public health practitioner and strategist and as his text the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Throughout his career, Dr. Mann focused public attention on the fact

that prejudice and discrimination help drive the AIDS epidemic, and

that discrimination against those at risk of infection fuels the

epidemic further. History will especially remember Dr. Mann for

bringing to the world's attention the basic notion that improved

health cannot be achieved without basic human rights, and that these

rights are meaningless without adequate health.

Nomination Criteria

In reviewing the nominees for the Mann Award for Global

Health and Human Rights, the following criteria will be considered

and evaluated:

• Practical work in the field and in difficult circumstances.

• Actual relevance to the linkage of health with human rights.

• Predominant activities in developing countries and with

marginalized people.

• Evidence of serious and long-term commitment.

• Potential for award strengthening nominees work.

• Potential for receipt of this award raising the profile of

the Mann Award itself.

• Funding will enhance visibility and public awareness of

issue or project person/organization is addressing.

• Potential for attracting additional resources towards

resolution of the issue.

The deadline for submitting nominations is Monday, Jan. 30, 2006.

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A blue ribbon committee of international health and human rights

experts selects the award recipient. The 2005 committee included Dr.

Piot of UNAIDS, U.S. Sen. Leahy (D-VT), Dr. Helene

Gayle of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Barry Bloom of

Harvard University and representatives of the three sponsoring

organizations.

The award is presented at the Awards Banquet during the Global

Health Council's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

The deadline for submitting nominations is Monday, Jan. 30, 2006.

Click here to submit your nomination online.

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