HESI announces $80K Innovation Prize to address health equity
The nonprofit Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) has launched the inaugural HESI Innovation Prize—an unrestricted cash prize of $80,000.
The 2021 prize will recognize an individual(s) who has helped to reduce disproportionate health burdens in underserved populations and/or to promote greater health equity via their work or efforts in one or more of the following areas that are central to HESI's core mission:
- safe and effective medicines
- food safety and security
- chemical and consumer product safety, and/or
- environmental quality and sustainability
The Prize will recognize impact achieved via research, training/education, and/or programmatic approaches. The prize is open to academic, government, nonprofit, or other public sector scientists.
HESI is accepting applications from April 1 – June 30, 2021. Awardees will be notified of their selection by August 2021.
For more information, visit https://hesiglobal.org/hesi-innovation-prize/ or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
