Gates Foundation: Gates Vaccine Innovation Award

The Gates Vaccine Innovation Award will celebrate revolutionary ways children in the poorest parts of the world are immunized. The winning innovation will be recognized with a US $250,000 prize. The Gates Vaccine Innovation Award is open to individuals from any discipline. We are looking for ideas big or small that have resulted in tangible improvements in immunization coverage in developing country communities. Nominees will be assessed on three broad criteria:

- Developing country impact – the nominee should have contributed to the prevention, control, or elimination of vaccine-preventable disease through significant improvements in immunization quality and coverage among mothers and children in developing countries.

- Innovation and creativity – the nominee should have applied imaginative and pioneering approaches to overcome difficult challenges to immunizing children and achieving impact. Innovation is not the same as invention. Even simple ideas applied in creative ways to overcome real-world challenges can be considered innovative.

- Scale – The nominee’s innovation should be at scale or suitable to be implemented at scale within the nominee’s country and around the world.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Vaccine-Delivery/Vaccine-Innovation-Award