GSK And Save The Children Launch $1 Million Award

Glaxo Smith Kline and Save the Children on Thursday launched a $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award to identify and reward innovations in healthcare which have proven successful in reducing child deaths in developing countries. From the 27th June – 26th August, organisations from across the developing world can nominate examples of innovative healthcare approaches they have discovered or implemented. ‘These approaches must have resulted in tangible improvements to under-5 child survival rates, be sustainable and have the potential to be scaled-up and replicated,’ states a press statement by the Save the Children. 

Co-chaired by Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GSK, and Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children, the Judging Panel, made up of experts from the fields of public health, science and academia, will award $250,000 to the best healthcare innovation to further progress their work. An additional $750,000 will be made available for runners-up awards.