Winners of Public Health Champion Awards conferred by WHO

Winners of Public Health Champion Awards,

World Health Organization

WHO Country Office for India has instituted awards for Public Health Champions. The first awards were given out at the national consultation commemorating the World Health Day 2015 on 1 April  2015 at New Delhi.

Categories

The awards comprise two categories:

• Sustained contribution to the field of public health, and
• Innovation

The award winners in ‘Sustained contribution to the field of public health’ category:

• SEWA Rural
• Community Health Department, Christian Medical College, Vellore
• Biocon Foundation
• Dr Vinod K. Paul, AIIMS

The award winners in ‘Innovation’ category:

• Narayana Health
• Ekjut

The rationale for recognizing public health champions is to honour and recognize efforts of both, individual(s) and institution(s) who have made an outstanding contribution to public health through advocacy for and involvement in impactful health policies, strategies and programmes with proven public health achievements and substantial improvement in health outcomes with equity in the country.

Courtesy: http://www.searo.who.int/india/mediacentre/public_health_champions/en/