Deadline: 1-May-23

Submit nominations for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD)’s Emerging Researcher Award.

The GBD Emerging Researcher Award was created in 2020 to support emerging global health researchers to carry out innovative research to improve the measurement and knowledge about burden of disease in populations.

Aim

• The primary aim of the award is to support emerging global health researchers to carry out innovative research to improve the measurement and knowledge about burden of disease in populations.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nominations must be submitted on behalf of the nominee. Self-nominations will not be reviewed.
• The GBD Emerging Researcher Award is open to individuals who meet the following criteria:
  • An early‐career professional (this may include students pursuing a terminal degree and no more than five years post terminal degree)
  • Demonstrable evidence that the nominee can carry out Global Burden of Disease (GBD) research(1) of the highest scientific quality, focused on either:
    • Methods improvement; or
    • Application of GBD methods in low and middle income countries (LMIC)
    • Preference will be given to candidates who are based in a LMIC. Female nominations are encouraged.
    • “GBD-related research” defined as research or analysis that fits under the rubric of the Global Burden of Disease Study.
    • “LMIC” defined by the World Bank as: “For the current 2022 fiscal year, low-income economies are defined as those with a GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method, of $1,045 or less in 2020; lower middle-income economies are those with a GNI per capita between $1,046 and $4,095; upper middle-income economies are those with a GNI per capita between $4,096 and $12,695; high-income economies are those with a GNI per capita of $12,696 or more.”

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