# GSK and Save the Children offer $1 million award for healthcare innovation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/07/18/gsk-save-children-offer-1-million-award-healthcare-innovation/
- Published: 2016-07-18T23:12:53+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**GSK and Save the Children have launched their fourth annual $1 million Healthcare
Innovation Award, which rewards innovations in healthcare that help to reduce child
deaths in developing countries and have the potential to reach even more children.**

Organisations from across developing countries can enter to win the award with details
of the innovative healthcare approaches that they have implemented. To be eligible,
these innovations must:

 * have resulted in tangible improvements to under-five child survival
 * be sustainable, and
 * have the scope to be scaled-up and replicated.

The Award is part of GSK and Save the Children’s five-year strategic partnership.
[Launched in 2013](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/05/11/gsk-and-save-children-medicine-and-research-partnership/),
this is designed to combine the two organisations’ expertise and skills with the
aim of helping to save one million children’s lives.

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So far awards have been made to more than a dozen inventive approaches, from a paperless
immunisation records system to an affordable diarrhoea treatment kit.

This year’s Award, as well as recognising approaches that have helped reduce child
deaths, will give special attention to innovations that focus on the hardest-to-
reach children.

## Eligible organisations

Nominations must:

 * Be from a country classified as ‘low’, ‘lower-middle’, or ‘upper-middle’ income
   by the [World Bank](http://data.worldbank.org/ country). Countries classified
   as ‘high income’ by the World Bank or that are in the [European Union](http://europa.eu/about-eu/ countries/index_en.htm)
   are _not_ eligible.
 * Describe an innovative approach or process applied to under-five child survival
   that can demonstrate impact within an eligible country.

Lisa Bonadonna, head of the GSK and Save the Children partnership, commented:

> “When it comes to reaching the poorest children with quality healthcare, no single
> organisation has all the answers. So we’re always searching for new and different
> ideas, wherever they might be. Our Award recognises that some of the best solutions
> to development challenges come from people living with them. Tough conditions 
> can stimulate innovation, generating solutions that are relevant and adaptable.
> If these bright ideas can be shared across countries and continents, the impact
> could be profound.”

Entries to the [Healthcare Innovation Award](http://www.healthcareinnovationaward.org)
closes on **7 September 2016 at 11:59pm (GMT)**. Winners are expected to be announced
in December.

A judging panel, made up of experts from the fields of public health, science and
academia, will award all or part of the funds to one or more of the best healthcare
innovations.

 

_Photo: Bianca Bungoma, Kenya by Colin Crowley/Save the Children_

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