2024 Untold Stories of Global Health Competition
Do you know an important global health story that’s been overlooked by the media and deserves special notice?
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and Global Health NOW from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are pleased to announce the Untold Global Health Stories of 2024 Contest. The contest is designed to give a platform to important but under-reported global health stories.
This competition is designed to shine a light on important but underreported global health issues. The best nominations focus on a specific issue in a specific location or region that has a powerful impact, good or bad, on people’s wellbeing. Topics can cover issues ranging from infectious to chronic diseases; mental health to public health; human rights to climate change, complex emergencies and beyond. Please use short, powerful, prose in your submission and include available data and evidence as well as contact information.
Contest information
Nominations
Send us your ideas, and if we choose your issue, we’ll help you expand the audience for your issue.
Submit your nomination here, with a short (150-word) statement describing the story and why it deserves more coverage and support.
Important Dates
Submissions Open – October 15, 2023
Nominations Deadline – December 22, 2023
Judging Complete and winners notified – February 1, 2024
Judging
The contest will be jointly judged by CUGH and GHN, based on the entries’ newsworthiness, creativity and feasibility for coverage.
Winners
GHN will select one winning story to cover and be published in GHN. At least 6 runners-up will also be recognized. All winning entries will be shared on CUGH's website and bulletin.
GHN will consider and share the runners up entries as sources for possible stories for coverage. GHN will cover at least one runner-up idea as a story or series of stories in GHN.
Prizes
The winner will be announced publicly at CUGH’s conference, March 7-10, 2024
Runners-up will have short summaries included on the GHN website.
The winner (maximum of 1 nominee per entry) will receive free registration for the CUGH conference.
Previous Years Winners
GHN and CUGH began collaborating on the Untold Stories Contest in 2015.
2020: The need for evidence-based protocols for the treatment of stroke in low- and middle-income countries, nominated by Mariet Benade (Global Health NOW’s winner) and Aging with HIV in Kenya, nominated by Eunice Kilonzo (NPR’s Goats and Soda’s winner)
2019: Improving autism diagnosis in Turkey, nominated by Hikmet Ceyhun Göcenoğlu (Global Health NOW’s winner) and the impact of light on the quality of care that health workers deliver, nominated by Beth Ann Eanelli (NPR’s Goats and Soda’s winner)
2018: Hemophilia in developing countries, nominated by Chris Bombardier (Global Health NOW’s winner) and the recruitment of children in Colombia for cocaine production, proposed by Athena Madan (NPR’s Goats and Soda’s winner)
2017: The hidden crisis of burns in Nepal, nominated by Emaline Laney, (Global Health NOW’s winner) and deafness in developing countries, proposed by Christi Batamula and Matthew Yau (NPR’s Goats and Soda’s winner)
2016: The paralytic disease konzo, submitted by Desire Tshala-Katumbay (Global Health NOW’s winner), and infection-related cancers in the developing world, nominated by Susan Keown (NPR’s Goats and Soda’s winner)
2015: The chronic inflammatory disease mycetoma, nominated by University of Toronto students Annie Liang and Simran Dhunna (Global Health NOW winner)
About the Sponsors
About CUGH:
Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) builds interdisciplinary collaborations and facilitates the sharing of knowledge to address global health challenges. It assists members in sharing their expertise across education, research, and service. It is dedicated to creating equity and reducing health disparities everywhere. CUGH promotes mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships between universities in resource-rich and resource-poor countries, developing human capital and strengthening institutions' capabilities to address these challenges. It is committed to translating knowledge into action.
About Global Health NOW:
Global Health NOW from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a smartly curated, free, easy-to-scan weekday newsletter that delivers essential news, exclusive commentaries, and original reporting on US and global public health to 50,000+ subscribers across 170 countries. Subscribe to Global Health NOW for free: www.globalhealthnow.org/subscribe