The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights

The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights was
established in 1999 to honor Dr. Jonathan 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, Jonathan 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 Jonathan 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.
Peter Piot of UNAIDS, U.S. Sen. Patrick 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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