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Palliative Care Public Health Policy and Advocacy Awards for Africa

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This award seeks to recognise the cumulative contributions of an African Ministry of Health, an individual, and an institution whose public policy advocacy efforts at the national, regional, or international level have improved patient access to palliative care in Africa. The award is offered by the African Palliative Care Association (APCA), with funding from the Open Society Foundations (OSF).
The winning Public Health Policy Award for an African Ministry of Health will be awarded a plaque and an all-expenses-paid trip for one representative to the APCA-HPCA conference in Johannesburg, South Africa from September 17-20 2013. The institutional winner will be awarded US$750 with an all-expenses-paid trip for the executive director or founder to the 2013 APCA-HPCA conference. The individual winner will be awarded US$500 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the conference. According to the organiser, a jury of palliative care and advocacy experts will select candidates who have exemplified excellence in advocacy and public health policy in Africa.
Click here for more information about the award.

Application Info

Registration information: Francophone, Lusophone, and North African applicants are encouraged to apply. All entries must be accompanied by a completed online application form (downloadable from the conference website) and entrants are advised to keep copies of all material submitted.
Submissions should include the following information:

  • A letter of endorsement from either: the nominee’s institutional head of department, organisational executive director, a key partner or stakeholder in palliative care, and/or director of the programme being nominated to address the nominee's impact on palliative care health policy or advocacy.
  • Curriculum Vitae of the individual nominee, or of the director of the programme, institution or association being nominated for an institutional award.
  • A list detailing key public policy advocacy activities warranting the award (500 word limit).
  • Reprints of published papers (where relevant) or broadly disseminated reports related to the award.

Click here to make a nomination online.

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African Palliative Care Association website on June 22 2013.
Image credit: Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU).