Essay competition shortlist selected
Forty-two essays from just short of 300 received have been shortlisted for the 2008 essay competition for the under-30s, Young Voices in Research for Health, organized jointly by the Lancet and the Global Forum for Health Research.
The theme Climate change and health: research challenges for vulnerable populations attracted entries from over 65 countries.
For the first time this year, the competition was also open to essays in French. Three are in the shortlist.
Winners will be announced at the beginning of August. Their prize will be an invitation to take part in the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health that will take place in Bamako, Mali, in November 2008. The Global Forum for Health Research is one of the six organizing partners of the Bamako Forum, together with the Council on Health Research for Development, UNESCO, the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Government of Mali.
All shortlisted essays will be published in an anthology in mid-October as well as in the Lancet online and on this website. Copies of the publication can also be ordered here (for November delivery).
Ida Ansharyani, Indonesia, Silent danger lurks in water
Victor Gustavo Arias Ledesma, Mexico, Vectors symptom of the disease of this planet
Linda Arnade, USA, The torch of climate change
Packiaraj Asirvatham, India, Climate change as chronic disease: research challenges for the health of vulnerable communities
Kheyal Azam Khalil, Pakistan, If only we knew
Jacob Bell, USA, Climate change and human health research: facing global health inequity
Raquel Bertoldo, Brazil, Changements globaux, défies locaux : l’efficacité des stratégies globales en question
Nandita Bhan, India, Climate change and health: research challenges for vulnerable populations
Philippa Bird, UK, Climate change and mental ill-health: all in the mind?
Herbert Bonifacio, Canada, A “healing” tradition: reclaiming the seal hunt in the face of colonization and melting ice
Ben Brisbois, Canada, Questioning climate change’s brave new world and addressing the historical roots of health vulnerability
Claire Élise Burdet, Canada, La vulnérabilité de naître humain : le retour en force d'une notion extincte
Dziedzom De Souza, Ghana, Climate change and health: research challenges for vulnerable populations?
Divya Dhar, New Zealand, Climate change mitigation policies: another source of health inequalities?
Meghnath Dhimal, Nepal, Climate change and health: research challenges in a vulnerable mountainous country like Nepal
Enrique Falceto de Barros, Brazil, Climate change in Brazil: is primary health care part of the solution?
Lester Sam Geroy, Philippines, The trees have grown again
Victoria Hall, UK, Climate change and health: research on vulnerable groups or research for vulnerable groups?
David Heller, USA, Bridging the research-policy gap: the chief challenge for addressing health effects of climate change in Bangladesh
Aliea Herbert, USA , Global climate change, industry and vulnerable populations -- an intersection of the three in the Circumpolar Region
Steven Justin Hoffman, Canada, Global health advocacy for evidence-informed climate change policies that aim to protect the world’s most vulnerable people
Amjad Idries, Sudan, Addressing the climatic changes and its health impact: is it one of the priority agenda in developing countries?
Stephen Kariuki, Kenya, A blurred vision
Henry Ko, Australia, High-tech, low-tech and back-to-basics solutions for health research
Namrata Kotwani, India , Every life is precious: an equitable agenda for health research on climate change
Daniel Lopez-Cevallos, Ecuador, The dismantling of public health infrastructure: a “natural” disaster?
Robert McSweeney, UK, Climate and infectious disease: a question of vectors
Rhona Mijumbi, Uganda, Climate challenges: let us all return to Alma Ata
Amita Mukhopadhyay, India, Resuscitating Mumbai -- from sickness, slums and calamities to secure social capital
Marame Ndour, Senegal, Vers une initiative mondiale de sauvegarde face au changement climatique et pour la justice environnementale?
Llemar Nicholson, Jamaica, The Caribbean and global warming: too small to face such a big problem
Igembe Nkandala, Tanzania, Food: the real public health issue of the future
Sophie North, UK, Facts and figures: the difficulties of quantifying the health impacts of climate change and the value of doing so
Osamwonyi Obasogie, Nigeria, Degenerating environmental and climatic problems of the Nigerian Niger Delta with its attendant health problems: a synopsis
Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Australia, Climate change and nutrition: health research must adapt quickly to fit the problem
Tiffany Pennick Walters, USA, The climate of mental health after natural disaster: a picture of incomplete health
David Poon, Canada, The unnecessary dichotomy
Charles Salmen, USA, Rethinking health for our global organism: the obesity famine, rural infection and climate change
Daniel Savignon-Marinho, Brazil, Before the ice melts: global warming and its impact on the dynamics and ecology of neglected tropical diseases
Renzo Sotomayor, Peru, Climate change affects the Andes’ Right to Health.
Kirvis Janneth Torres Poveda, Colombia, Resolutory capacity of developing countries governments when facing the effects of climatic change in vulnerable populations
Wan Raihana Wan Aasim, Malaysia, Climate change and health research: towards the empowerment of developing nations
Last updated 10 July 2008
