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The Social Media Awards

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are central to engaging wider audiences in information sharing, debate, knowledge creation, and collaborative action in order to achieve global health systems goals.

Health Systems Global is the proud sponsor of the first Health Systems Social Media Awards to recognize and reward the individuals and organizations who best employ social media to communicate about health systems. The awards will be presented to winners during the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town.

Specific categories have been developed to allow you to nominate individuals and/or organizations using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, and other social media platforms.

Individual awards
Best on Twitter: This award recognizes the best use of Twitter by an individual to inform, advocate, and engage about health systems.

Young leader: This award recognizes the best use of social media by an individual under 30 to communicate about health systems using any social media platform.

Symposium coverage: This award recognizes exceptional social media engagement by an individual before/during the symposium, onsite or offsite, and via any social media platform.

Organization awards
Best on Facebook: This award recognizes the best use of Facebook by an organization to inform, advocate and engage about health systems.

Most transparent: This award recognizes the most effective use of social media by an organization to share their internal processes and decision-making in the name of transparency.

Civil society: This award recognizes the organization or network that best employs social media to engage civil society in health systems-related dialogue.

Dates

  • Nominations/endorsements open: 29 July 2014
  • Nominations close: 16 September 2014
  • Nominations for ‘Symposium coverage’ open: 23 September 2014
  • Winners announced and awards ceremony: 30 September 2014
  • ‘Symposium coverage’ winner announced: 3 October 2014

The nomination process

  • You can make any number of nominations, in one or more categories.
  • Nominations must be submitted by individuals.
  • Before you nominate an individual or organization, check whether they have already been nominated by using the search option on the home page. If they have already been nominated you can click on the “Endorse” button alongside their profile picture to add your endorsement.
  • The nomination process:
    • Click the “Nominate” button.
    • You will be asked to login using your Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn credentials. We recommend that you use the same login account every time you access the website to ensure optimal functioning.
    • Tell us who you want to nominate, and specify the category you are nominating them for. You will be asked to briefly state why you have nominated this individual/organization and to provide the nominee’s contact details.
  • Make it compelling. Be sure to tell us your reason for the nomination. A nomination without a reason will receive a reduced score.
  • Each individual/organizational nominee will be notified via email and will be invited to add additional information to their profile.
  • Share your nomination over social media (using the hashtag #HSR2014).
  • Before submitting /endorsing a nominee you can read more on eligibility and criteria.

If you have any questions or difficulties regarding the nomination process, please email here

Health Systems Global and The Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Health Systems Global is the first international membership organization fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and knowledge translation. Its mission is to convene researchers, policy-makers and implementers from around the world to develop the field of health systems research and unleash their collective capacity to create, share and apply knowledge to strengthen health systems and contribute to the attainment of better health, equity and well-being.

This community comes together every two years for a symposium organized by Health Systems Global. The Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 30 September to 3 October 2014. The theme of the symposium is the science and practice of people-centered health systems, chosen to facilitate collaborative research and action on how to make health systems more responsive to the needs of individuals, families, and communities.

If you have any questions or difficulties regarding the nomination process send an email here.