The PHILA Award is an award from the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) that honours excellence and commitment to public health. PHILA is an acronym for Public Health Innovation and Lifetime Achievement and also plays on the isiZulu word “phila” meaning life. These awards are given to individuals in recognition of a specific and significant contribution to public health research, advocacy, education or service in South Africa.
PHASA would like to invite nominations for the 2016 PHILA Awards. The nominee and person nominating need not be PHASA members. Members of the PHILA Awards Committee and current PHASA Executive Board Members are not eligible for the awards.The following will be awarded.
The PHILA Annual Award
This award honours excellence and commitment to public health. This award will be given to an individual in recognition of a specific and significant contribution to public health research, advocacy, education or service in South Africa during the past five (5) years.
Specific criteria for this award include
The PHILA Lifetime Achievement Award
This award will honour an individual for a life time of commitment to public health. This individual should have made an exceptional and significant contribution to public health research, education or service in their lifetime.
Individuals should have fundamentally advanced public health in South Africa and be acknowledged by peers.
Specific criteria for this award include
The PHILA Emerging Practitioner Award
This award honours excellence and commitment to public health in an emerging practioner not older than 35 years old. This award will be given to an individual in recognition of a specific and significant contribution to public health research, advocacy, education or service in South Africa during the past five (5) years.
Specific criteria for this award include
Nature of the Award
The award will be presented at the 2016 PHASA conference in East London. All awards will consists of a trophy and a certificate.
In addition, PHASA will arrange the travel and two nights’ accommodation for the winners to the PHASA conference.
Winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award will receive a lifetime membership to PHASA
Nomination process
Nominees should please complete the nomination form (DOWNLOAD IT HERE) and send it to Ms Mandy Salomo at Mandy.Salomo@mrc.ac.za. The following should be included with the nomination form:
Being a PHASA member is not a requirement for either the nominee or the person nominating.
Selection process
All nominations will be reviewed by the PHILA Awards Committee in July 2016. The Committee reserves the right not to make any award if the nominees are not suitable and may.
The closing date for applications is 30 June 2016
The winners will be notified by 22 July 2016 and will be announced at the 2016 PHASA Conference which will be held 19-22 September 2016.
For more information, please contact Ms Mandy Salomo at Mandy.Salomo@mrc.ac.za .
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