Boehringer Ingelheim and the Ashoka changemakers are calling for competition

07.07.2011 16:09

Boehringer Ingelheim and the Changemakers at Ashoka have launched the Making More Health: Achieving Individual, Family, and Community Well-Being competition. The competition is part of a three-year global initiative to identify and promote the most promising solutions to health problems worldwide.

Innovative models and solutions that contribute positively to changes in the health sector are welcome as contributions. Three winners will be selected from all participants and will each receive a $10,000 prize for their contribution to the well-being of people, their families and communities.

The organizers of the Making More Health competition are looking forward to solutions from all areas of healthcare, from prevention and lifestyle to the detection and treatment of diseases. These include ideas on how to improve access to quality medical care and treatment, promote prevention, early detection and diagnosis, or support vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. Or how individuals, families and communities can be enabled to actively shape their health. Deadline for acceptance is September 21, 2011.

Jean Scheftsik de Szolnok, Vice-President Southern Europe at Boehringer Ingelheim, commented on the initiative: “With the Making More Health competition, Boehringer Ingelheim is committed to better health care for people, their families and society and is thus taking a leading, innovative role as a company in the health sector. The aim of the initiative is to find new approaches to solve problems in the health sector. This competition therefore helps to ensure a sustainable future in which everyone can live a healthy life.

Participants can submit their contributions on the website Changemakers to set. It is also possible to use the website as a discussion platform and to exchange ideas on various solutions to health problems, to comment on contributions and to choose the winners.