第七十六届世界卫生大会期间颁发的公共卫生杰出贡献奖
Friday, 26 May 2023
Awards for outstanding contributions to public health presented during the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly
Geneva---26 May 2023--During a moving ceremony at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly in Geneva, awards were presented to persons and institutions from around the world for their outstanding contributions to public health.
“The 2023 public health prizes and awards celebrate people who have made a significant contribution to global health, and whose work has extended far beyond the call of normal duty,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “At a time when the world faces many challenges, each is an inspiration and a reminder of the progress that can be made to improve health and wellbeing for all.”
日内瓦——2023年5月26日——在日内瓦举行的第七十六届世界卫生大会上，来自世界各地的个人和机构因其对公共卫生的杰出贡献而获奖。
世卫组织总干事Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus博士说：“2023年的公共卫生奖和奖项表彰那些对全球卫生做出重大贡献的人，他们的工作远远超出了正常职责的范围。在世界面临许多挑战的时候，每一项都是对改善所有人的健康和福祉所能取得的进展的鼓舞和提醒。”
每年世界卫生大会闭幕后，都会发出对每个奖项候选人提名的呼吁。提名可以由世卫组织成员国的国家卫生行政部门和任何前获奖者提出。在2023年1月举行的第152届会议上，执行局根据世界卫生大会的决定，指定了2023名获奖者
The call for nominations of candidates for each prize is sent out each year after closure of the World Health Assembly. Nominations can be made by national health administrations of a WHO Member State and by any former recipient of the prizes. At its 152nd session in January 2023, the Executive Board designated the 2023 winners of the prizes, on the basis of proposals made by the dedicated selection panels for each prize.
The seven laureates have been selected to celebrate their unique role and contribution for public health in their countries and globally. They come from four WHO Regions – for the Americas, the Eastern-Mediterranean, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific. Five winners are individuals, and three among them are women. In addition, the two institutions that have received a 2023 award are led by women.
选出这七位获奖者是为了庆祝他们在本国和全球公共卫生领域的独特作用和贡献。他们来自世界卫生组织的四个地区——美洲、东地中海、东南亚和西太平洋。五位获奖者为个人，其中三位为女性。此外，获得2023年奖项的两个机构由女性领导。
Winners of the 2023 prizes
Sasakawa Health Prize
The 2023 laureates are the Nick Simons Institute from Nepal, and Professor Vichai Tienthavorn from Thailand
The Nick Simons Institute is a nongovernmental organization aiming to improve health care in the rural areas of Nepal. Working closely with the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal, the Institute has trained 7000 medical professionals (such as midwives and anaesthetic assistants) in rural areas, who now provide most-needed services to local communities in the absence of a sufficient pool of general practitioners and specialists. The Institute has supplied essential equipment and provided additional health personnel to alleviate the lack of medical professionals in 44 hospitals, and supported the design of an action plan for better quality services in more than 100 rural hospitals. The Institute also conducts research and advocacy activities to shape perceptions and influence policies that affect rural health workers in Nepal.
Sasakawa健康奖
2023年的获奖者是来自尼泊尔的尼克·西蒙斯研究所和来自泰国的维查·蒂恩塔沃恩教授
尼克·西蒙斯研究所是一个非政府组织，旨在改善尼泊尔农村地区的医疗保健。该研究所与尼泊尔卫生和人口部密切合作，在农村地区培训了7000名医疗专业人员（如助产士和麻醉助理），他们现在在缺乏足够的全科医生和专家的情况下为当地社区提供最需要的服务。该研究所在44家医院提供了基本设备，并提供了额外的卫生人员，以缓解医疗专业人员的短缺，并支持制定了一项行动计划，在100多家农村医院提供更高质量的服务。研究所还开展了研究和宣传活动，以形成影响尼泊尔农村卫生工作者的观念和影响政策。
Professor Vichai Tienthavorn is President of the Praboromarajchanok Institute at the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand. One of the nation-wide initiatives he has led is an innovative health promotion policy to help address thalassemia, with his work resulting in the adoption of an effective national policy for thalassemia prevention and control. He also designed an effective communications tool and screening method to help citizens to adapt their behaviours in order to prevent and control diabetes and hypertension.
Vichai Tienthavorn教授是泰国公共卫生部Praboromarajchanok研究所所长。他领导的全国性举措之一是制定创新的健康促进政策，以帮助解决地中海贫血问题，他的工作导致通过了一项有效的地中海贫血预防和控制国家政策。他还设计了一种有效的沟通工具和筛查方法，帮助公民调整自己的行为，以预防和控制糖尿病和高血压
As a result of this work, a national policy was adopted with significant positive impact on the country’s disease burden. Professor Tienthavorn also played an essential role in addressing the challenge of uneven distribution of the health workforce, especially in border and rural areas of Thailand. He led the establishment of partnerships with village schools to recruit high-school students, train them and help them settle back locally after having accomplished an accelerated medical curriculum.
这项工作的结果是，通过了一项对国家疾病负担产生重大积极影响的国家政策。Tienthavorn教授在应对卫生劳动力分布不均的挑战方面也发挥了重要作用，特别是在泰国边境和农村地区。他领导与乡村学校建立了伙伴关系，招募高中生，对他们进行培训，并帮助他们在完成加速医学课程后在当地定居。
United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize
阿拉伯联合酋长国健康基金会奖
2023 award laureate: Dr Maria Asuncion Silvestre from the Philippines
2023年获奖者：来自菲律宾的玛丽亚·亚松森·西尔维斯特博士
In addition to being a renowned clinician and researcher, Dr Maria Asuncion Silvestre is a passionate advocate for exclusive breastfeeding and the founder of Kalusugan ng Mag-Ina (Health of Mother and Child) – a Philippine non-governmental organization. Dr Silvestre has leveraged her experience as a community practitioner to conduct research and design a protocol to help improve the health of mothers and newborns. The pioneering protocol she created describes a simple set of actions to be undertaken by health workers attending a mother during delivery and her newborn after birth. This protocol, which is applicable in all resource settings, helps to bridge the health equity gap in mother-and-child care. In partnership with the national government of the Philippines as well as 17 countries in the WHO Western Pacific Region, she has played a key role in scaling up the First Embrace campaign for Early Essential Newborn Care – a set of simple WHO-recommended and cost-effective interventions.
His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prize for Research in Health Care for the Elderly and in Health Promotion
2023 award laureates: The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention from China; and Dr Abla Mehio Sibai from Lebanon
2023名获奖者：中国国家慢性非传染性疾病预防控制中心；和来自黎巴嫩的Abla Mehio Sibai博士
The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, part of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), has hosted a department focusing on the health of older people since 2013. It delivers a broad range of programmes and activities that advance health promotion for older people, ranging from better understanding the causes of morbidity and mortality through national surveillance for noncommunicable diseases, surveys, death registries and research, to tailored programmes to promote health literacy and evidence-based policies.
自2013年以来，中国疾病预防控制中心下属的国家慢性病和非传染性疾病控制与预防中心一直是一个关注老年人健康的部门。该中心提供了一系列促进老年人健康促进的计划和活动，从通过全国非传染性疾病监测、调查、死亡登记和研究更好地了解发病率和死亡率的原因，到量身定制的促进健康知识和循证政策的计划。
Initiatives include a dedicated toolkit for older people, capacity‑building of 2000 primary care staff, a health advocacy week dedicated to older people, and an innovative project to improve the mental and cognitive health of more than half a million older persons in both urban and rural areas.
Dr Abla Mehio Sibai is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She has made an outstanding contribution to older people’s health in Lebanon and the region, developing a holistic approach to the promotion of healthy ageing. She led the innovative initiative of enrolling close to 600 older people every year at the University for Seniors at the American University of Beirut, in addition to training public health professionals.
Abla Mehio Sibai博士是黎巴嫩贝鲁特美国大学流行病学教授兼健康科学学院院长。她为黎巴嫩和该地区的老年人健康做出了杰出贡献，制定了促进健康老龄化的整体方法。她领导了一项创新举措，除培训公共卫生专业人员外，每年在贝鲁特美国大学老年大学招收近600名老年人。
She coled the landmark WHO Global Burden of Disease Study in Lebanon (2000) and conducted the first national survey on noncommunicable diseases and risk factors, informing advocacy, policy-making and programme planning for health promotion. Building on her numerous achievements, Dr Sibai has developed the “National for Older Persons” in Lebanon (2020–2030). Dr Sibai also created the Arab Ageing Network and the Centre for Studies on Ageing to create links between research and policy at the national, regional and international levels.
她主持了具有里程碑意义的世卫组织黎巴嫩全球疾病负担研究（2000年），并进行了第一次关于非传染性疾病和风险因素的全国调查，为宣传、政策制定和健康促进方案规划提供了信息。在她众多成就的基础上，Sibai博士制定了黎巴嫩“全国老年人”（2020-2030年）。Sibai还创建了阿拉伯老龄化网络和老龄化研究中心，以在国家、区域和国际各级的研究和政策之间建立联系。
Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health
2023 award laureate: Dr Jorge Francisco Meneses from Guatemala
李公共卫生纪念奖
2023年获奖者：来自危地马拉的Jorge Francisco Meneses博士
Having promoted community participation in hospital care for over 20 years, Dr Jorge Francisco Meneses set up community-based committees focusing on the safety and satisfaction of patients, their families and the community. Given the positive impact of his work in improving the quality of patient care, the model of ethical and patient-centred care that he designed was scaled up at the national level. Nowadays, as the national supervisor for hospitals of Guatemala, he has designed a programme to improve the quality of services for hospital patients and their families. Dr Meneses has recently coordinated an innovative pilot project in the Guatemala South Health Area to build the first national integrated network of health services, with a priority focus on underserved communities. His work led to the adoption of a national strategy of integrated health services networks, the first in Central America.
Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion
2023 award laureate: Dr Mariam Athbi Al Jalahma from Bahrain
2023年获奖者：来自巴林的Mariam Athbi Al Jalahma博士
In addition to being the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Regulatory Authority of Bahrain, Dr Mariam Athbi Al Jalahma has held various leadership positions in government and academic institutions in her country. Dr Al Jalahma has played a major role in the development of numerous national and region-wide strategies and plans in the field of primary healthcare, child and adolescent health, chronic diseases and antismoking. In her current role, Dr Al Jalahma has led major successful initiatives, such as the national accreditation system for health institutions, the digital transformation of the National Health Regulatory Authority, and several initiatives leading to increased efficiency and excellence in the health sector. She is also a prominent voice for health promotion across various channels throughout all countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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