Global Accelerator Award™
August 24, 2010: LAUNCH: A partnership of the US Agency for International Development, NASA, the US Department of State, and NIKE
The Global Accelerator Award™ has been awarded to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), NASA, the US Department of State, and NIKE. Their partnership – LAUNCH – aims to “identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to humanity’s sustainability challenges” through a series of forums, each focused on a specific sustainability challenge. The current event, LAUNCH: Health, will focus on health issues related to the first 20 years of life.
LAUNCH: Health is seeking transformative innovations to improve health and quality of life on Earth – both in the developed and developing world – specifically in the first 20 years of life, in the following categories: Nutrition and food; Physical activity; and Preventive health care.
People can submit their ideas through the InnoCentive website, which allows tinkerers and inventors around the world to collaborate on posted challenges. Innovators can submit health proposals for the LAUNCH Health challenge at: https://gw.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9625880 Proposals will be accepted until September 13, 2010 when the challenge will close and the winners get selected.
Winners of the Global Accelerator Award are organizations or people who have helped propel into action an idea that holds the promise of dramatically improving patient care and human health throughout the world. The Accelerator Award is based on an Innovation Cell methodology that analyzes which organizations or people have put an idea or strategy into action that has generated significant positive “buzz” or “chatter” on the World Wide Web – notably, on patient-led blogs and social networking sites.
The Global Accelerator Award is powered by the Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College. The Innovation Cell specializes in capturing real-time global healthcare intelligence – to understand the needs, wants and preferences of patients and caregivers around the world. The Cell works to listen to people online and help nudge their health ideas into action.
Congratulations to our new winners: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), NASA, the U.S. Department of State, and NIKE
August 10, 2010: UNICEF and Public Health Ministry of Niger for launching a nationwide campaign to encourage breastfeeding and to discourage the practice of only giving babies water, juices and herbal liquids.
July 13, 2010: SAMHSA, in collaboration with the Ad Council
July 6, 2010: Apps 4 Africa
June 21, 2010: US Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services New 2010 Dietary Guidelines
June 1, 2010: Council on Foreign Relations and David P. Fidler
April 13, 2010: NKM2.org (No Kidding, Me Too!)a US-based charity whose aim is to “remove stigma attached to brain dis-ease through education and the breaking down of societal barriers.”
March 23, 2010: Medtronic for its “Every Patient First” Initiative to address disparities in access to healthcare in the US.
March 9, 2010: Together for Mental Wellbeing, a mental health charity in the United Kingdom. The charity is distinctive in its embrace of service users at a local, regional and national level.
February 9, 2010: InterSystems TrakCare™, following an announcement by the NHS National Service Scotland, which has selected TrakCare as the new national patient management system for Scotland.
February 2, 2010: Dr. Ruby Umesh Pawankar, president-elect of the World Allergy Organization (WAO), for raising the importance of allergy importance among Indian youth
January 19, 2010: Mgive, the Mobile Giving Foundation and the Twittersphere for a “new paradigm in charity giving” to help the people of Haiti.
January 5, 2010: MMR Information Systems, Inc., and Unis-Tonghe Technology Co. in China
December 14, 2009: NHS 2010-2015: from good to great.
December 8, 2009: Yellow Ribbon Campaign in New Delhi, India
November 24, 2009: National Parent Forum – a parent-led initiative championed by the government of Scotland.
November 10, 2009: 5th International Microinsurance Conference in Dakar, Senegal organized by the Munich Re Foundation and the Microinsurance Network.
November 3, 2009: The Legatum Prosperity Index™ – whose 2009 report was released on Oct. 27 – is the world’s only global assessment of wealth and wellbeing. It is published by the UK-based Legatum Institute.
October 27, 2009: GE Healthymagination Fund, - an equity fund that will invest in promising healthcare technology companies around the world that will invest in companies that herald innovative diagnostic, IT, and life sciences technologies aligned with the strategic objectives the initiative.
October 20, 2009: Saskatchewan’s Patient First Review, led by Mr. Tony Dagnone
October 13, 2009: Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease and a consortium of researchers who recently discovered a retroviral link to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
October 6, 2009: The University of Missouri (MU) and Cerner Corporation have been awarded the Global Accelerator Award for their new plans to create the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation.
September 29, 2009: US Veterans Affairs for its new “innovation competition”.
September 22, 2009: The Breakthrough Institute and the Third Way for their proposal to create a National Institutes of Energy modeled after the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
THE INAUGURAL WINNER: September 15, 2009
The inaugural winner of the Global Accelerator Award is Te Ao Auahatanga Hauora Māori (Māori Health Innovation Fund) for its new fund that inspires Māori health providers wishing to develop and implement a pilot or new service, share and spread innovative information. The fund was announced by the Hon. Tariana Turia, New Zealand MP for Te Tai Hauāuru and Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, on September 7th.
"A lot of Māori providers have already adopted innovative ways to tailor their services beyond what they are paid to do," the Minister said. "This fund will help them get the resources they need to grow those innovative services or develop new ones that have a whānau ora approach and that will help improve Māori health outcomes."
Our first winner responds:
Congratulations to the Hon. Tariana Turia from the University of Toronto Innovation Cell: Global Accelerator Award
Tena koe Mr Seeman
On behalf of Hon Tariana Turia, Associate Minister of Health, thank you for your email received 18 September 2009 awarding the inaugural Global Accelerator Award to the Associate Minister to her new innovation fund - Te Ao Auahatanga.Hauora Maori - Maori Health Innovation Fund.
On behalf of the Associate Minister of Health we humbly accept this award and thank you for this recognition.
Ngā mihi
Ana Bidois | Health Advisor | Office of Hon Tariana Turia | Parliament Buildings | Wellington
Read the New Zealand Ministry of Health press release here.
