Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity 2025 ($5,000 CAD prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 8, 2025

Applications are open for the Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity 2025. To honour Paul Farmer’s legacy, the McGill School of Population and Global Health established a lectureship and award in 2024 that’s given on an annual foundation to a person who fashions and demonstrates Paul’s imaginative and prescient of a ‘preferential option for the poor’ to attain fairness in well being.

In explicit, the award is used to honour people (or {couples}) working in beneath-served communities whose work is usually not acknowledged or made seen. They need to honour individuals who have been daring sufficient to “counter failures of imagination” and have lived a lifetime of accompaniment. By modeling accompaniment himself, Paul taught us that our lives are in service of others.

Award

• The Awardee will ship a particular lecture/oration at McGill University and obtain a money honorarium. In 2025, the honorarium can be CAD $5,000. Travel to go to McGill University may also be lined.

Eligibility

Eligible nominee:

• Is a dwelling individual, an distinctive practitioner, main impactful work to deal with well being inequities in underserved communities in any area of the world;
• Has a considerable, lengthy-time period monitor document of demonstrably enhancing well being fairness on the neighborhood stage;
• Is from any area of the world however nominations from the Global South are particularly welcome;
• May conduct analysis or lead an establishment as part of their apply, however the award will not be primarily based on analysis monitor document or a person’s rank inside an establishment; it’s primarily based on apply or service that results in enchancment of well being fairness.

Application

Self-nominations aren’t accepted. All nominations have to be submitted by a single lead nominator who will take accountability for placing collectively the under bundle. Nominees have to be made conscious of their nomination beforehand and present their consent to the nominators.

• Biosketch: Biosketch or transient biography of the nominee which incorporates their contact info (e-mail and cell phone numbers) in addition to {photograph} (headshot). 1 web page max.
• Rationale for nomination (1,000 phrases max): What makes the nominee worthy of the Paul Farmer Award for Health Equity? Summary of nominee’s physique of labor and their influence on tackling well being inequities in underserved communities or populations.
• Short resume or CV of the nominee: 10 pages max (Note: While a brief resume or CV is required, nominations can be accepted and inspired on behalf of those that wouldn’t have in depth formal educational credentials).
• Nomination letters: Two letters are required, one by the lead nominator and one by a secondary nominator. Each letter mustn’t exceed two pages. Nominators should be capable to present goal evaluations of the candidate and their physique of labor, demonstrating the nominee’s influence on enhancing well being fairness in underserved communities by way of proof or citations. Additional letters past the required two can’t be submitted.

The deadline to submit nominations is Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. Late submissions won’t be thought of.

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For extra info, go to Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award.