What is the most important thing the US can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?
Your idea may be published in the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health's influential final report. And CSIS is also giving away $3000 for the best ideas.
What CSIS is looking for:
Emotionally persuasive argument to back up your ideas. If you’ve been involved in global health as a professional or volunteer, please use your experience to illustrate your point. We especially value personal narrative.
Ideas that are sustainable in the long term – at least 15 years out from now.
Big gains – ideas that will really change lives.
Ideas that reduce morbidity and mortality of the world’s most vulnerable people, whether by direct intervention or by altering personal, institutional, or governmental behaviors.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions will be accepted between October 12 and November 20, 2009.
Entries must be at least 500 words and no longer than 800 words.
The CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health will be the sole arbiter of determining the winning entries.
The student who submits the winning response will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The student who submits the runner-up response will receive a $500 scholarship.
The non-student who submits the winning response will receive a $1,000 prize. The non-student who submits the runner-up response will receive a $500 prize.