January 15 2007

The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights has been established to honour Jonathan Mann and help to call continued attention to the vital links between health and human rights. The Award is presented annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights. The Award comes with a substantial financial prize to allow its recipient a measure of freedom to pursue his or her work in the area of global health and human rights.

From the Global Health Council: "As the first director of the World Health Organization's Special Program on AIDS from 1986-1990, Dr. Mann pioneered the approach to AIDS that continues to shape public health policy today. As the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University from 1990-1997, Dr. Mann began to articulate the ways in which the health of individuals and populations reflects access to basic human rights, using as his warrant his years as a public health practitioner and strategist and as his text the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."


According to the Council, throughout his career, Dr. Mann focused public attention on the fact that prejudice and discrimination help drive the AIDS epidemic, and that discrimination against those at risk of infection fuels the epidemic further.

A blue ribbon committee of individuals who have championed international health and human rights will select the Award recipient. The 2006 committee included Dr. Peter Piot of UNAIDS, Dr. Helene Gayle, President & CEO of CARE, Dr. Barry Bloom of Harvard University, Senator Patrick Leahy, Lydia Mann-Bondat, Professor Abdel Salam Gerais of Sudan Fertility Care Association, and representatives from the four partnering organisations supporting the Award: Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, Doctors of the World, John Snow Inc. and the Global Health Council. The award will be presented on May 31 2007 in Washington, D.C., during the Global Health Council's Annual International Conference.

The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2007 Award is January 15 2007.

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