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Start preparing your application for the EDCTP hashtagPrizes!

The four prizes recognise outstanding individuals and research teams from hashtagAfrica and hashtagEurope who have made significant achievements in global health hashtagresearch:

🔸 Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize (€50,000)

🔸 Outstanding Research Team Prize (€50,000)

🔸 Outstanding Female Scientist prize (€20,000)

🔸 Four Scientific Leadership Prizes (€15,000 each)

🏆 The prizes will be attributed during the upcoming hashtagEDCTP Forum.

More info: https://lnkd.in/dE8wP-TT 

Share your research, case study or best practice by submitting a proposal for presentation at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health. We welcome abstract and session proposals on issues including tuberculosis (TB) and TB co-infections, tobacco control, lung health and air pollution, as well as civil society initiatives, community engagement, human rights and other related topics.

The Union World Conference, taking place virtually from 19 - 22 October 2021, will focus on the theme Lung Health for All: Solutions for a New Era, by exploring the challenges facing global health. With the world still in the grip of a lung health pandemic, it is also confronting questions about systemic race relations and how the same vulnerable communities that bear the brunt of TB and HIV have now been hit the hardest by COVID-19.

Please carefully read the guidelines for abstract, Symposia, Post-graduate courses, Workshops and Satellite sessions before you begin. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, 4 May 2021, with the exception of satellite sessions for which the deadline is Wednesday, 30 June. Abstract submissions for TBScience will open in June 2021.

Submit now to be part of the conference programme and, in this time of pandemic, benefit from the global platform that will be offered to make your voice heard.

Are you a novel researcher?
The Union’s Abstract Mentor Programme aims to provide an opportunity for individuals with limited experience writing and submitting abstracts to work with a volunteer mentor, someone with notable experience. Mentors review and provide feedback on the writing and content of an abstract.
If you have any questions about the Abstract Mentoring Programme and/or want to participate as a mentee, please follow the steps on the website and contact us at mentoring@theunion.org if you have any questions or if you are a senior researcher willing to participate as a mentor.

For more information visit https://theunion.org/our-work/conferences/52nd-union-world-conference-on-lung-health/abstract-submission-guidelines

Nominations are now being received for The Union Awards, to be presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health in Seville, Spain.

More details about each of the awards can be found on The Union website by clicking on the links below or on the nominations page.

Nominations are now open for the following prizes:

• The Union Young Investigator Prize: Acknowledges a researcher for work in lung health published in the past five years, when aged 35 years or younger.
• The Union Scientific Prize: Acknowledges researchers at any stage of their career for work in lung health published in the past five years.
• The Karel Styblo Public Health Prize: Acknowledges a health worker or a community organisation for contributions to tuberculosis (TB) control over a period of ten years or more.
• The Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize: Acknowledges young researchers conducting promising work focused on reducing the disease burden of TB and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
• The Princess Chichibu Global Memorial TB Award: Recognises outstanding contributions to global TB control. Awarded by the Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association (JATA). For this award, the call for nominations is for award in 2021.
• The Union Medal – for members only: Awarded to members who have made an outstanding contribution to the control of TB or lung health by their scientific work and/or actions in the field.
• Honorary Member – for members only: Granted to a person who has become distinguished through active participation in The Union's activities and the fulfilment of its goals.

The awards will be presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health to be held from 21-24 October 2020 in Seville, Spain.

Nominations will close on 31 March 2020.

Any queries should be sent to awards@theunion.org for the first four scientific prizes in the list above, and to nominatingcommittee@theunion.org for The Union Medal, Honorary Member and Princess Chichibu Award.

Visit: https://www.theunion.org/what-we-do/awards/nomination-and-applications?utm_source=The+Union+Marketing&utm_campaign=04e1b26e47-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_13_04_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e2dbdf856e-04e1b26e47-248828829