Vic Neufeld Mentorship Award in Global Health 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Nominations are invited for the Vic Neufeld Mentorship Award in Global Health 2025. This award honours Dr. Vic Neufeld, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and the founding nationwide coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, which merged with the Canadian Society for International Health to create the Canadian Association for Global Health.

This award celebrates those that have supplied excellent mentorship to international well being college students and early-profession professionals. It acknowledges the important function mentors play in shaping and fostering the following era of world well being leaders, who’re instrumental in driving constructive change and development in the sphere.

Award

• Vic Neufeld Mentorship Award recipients are introduced with a plaque and free registration to subsequent yr’s Canadian Conference on Global Health.

Eligibility

• The particular person nominating the candidate have to be a present or earlier mentee of the candidate who has been concerned in a mentoring relationship for at least one yr. Alternatively, the nominator could be a educated colleague accustomed to the candidate’s dedication to mentoring service.
• Candidates ought to have demonstrated dedication to international well being mentorship for an prolonged interval, usually exceeding 5 years. Mentorship can happen in numerous contexts, corresponding to academia, authorities, non-governmental organizations, or civil society.
• Nominees ought to present proof of excellent efficiency in mentoring, together with accessibility, dedication, steering, help in pursuing targets, setting excessive requirements, and facilitating networking.
• The award will probably be granted based mostly on the nominee’s dedication to mentees’ development, sustained mentoring relationships ensuing in profession/private growth, and valued behaviours, attitudes, and abilities. Candidates might obtain the award a number of occasions however not inside a 5-yr interval.

Nomination

• Provide a testimonial on the affect of the mentor, descriptions of particular behaviours, examples of mentoring interactions, accomplishments attributed to the mentor, and a press release linking the mentee to the work influenced by the mentorship. Mentees are inspired to offer particular examples of targets achieved, initiatives accomplished, promotions, grants/awards earned, obstacles overcome, and classes discovered.
• The mentor’s CV will be included.
• Additional letters or statements of help from colleagues or mentees (previous/current) are inspired however non-compulsory.

Click here to nominate

For extra info, go to Vic Neufeld Mentorship Award in Global Health.