NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research and Journalism Awards
Application Process and Rules
Our new paperless awards entry system allows you to draft, edit, submit and monitor the status of multiple entries through a single dashboard. You can log into the system and edit your entries as many times as necessary. Just be sure to click submit before the deadline, February 15, 2012 at midnight Eastern Time. After this date the awards entry system will be closed to new submissions. All systems will be closed until Fall 2012.
Research Award Entry System - You will need:
- contact information for the entrant and all authors
- basic citation information (i.e. when and where the article was published)
- a 100 word summary of relevance
- the article (PDF or DOC file)
- author biographies - a short paragraph for each author is sufficient (PDF or DOC file/s)
Print Journalism Award Entry System - You will need:
- contact information for the entrant and all contributors
- basic citation information (i.e. when and where the article/series was published)
- (for entries in the trade publication category) a list of organizations providing financial support
- a 100 word summary of relevance
- the article/s (PDF or DOC file/s)
- contributor biographies (PDF or DOC file/s)
Television and Radio Journalism Award Entry System - You will need:
- contact information for the entrant and all contributors
- basic citation information (i.e. length of the piece, when and where it aired)
- a 100 word summary of the entry and its impact
- the script of the television or radio piece or series (PDF or DOC file)
- contributor biographies (PDF or DOC file/s)
- 9 copies of the television or radio piece or series on CD or DVD -- you will need to mail or deliver this part of the entry to NIHCM (see Procedures for Mailing Materials)
Questions?
Many of your questions may be answered in the pages linked below:
- Who is the submitter?
- Who is the entrant?
- Who is a contributor? (for Journalism Awards only)
- What are the best practices for uploading documents?
- What are the procedures for mailing materials (in addition to online entry)? (for Journalism Awards only)
- What are supporting documents? (for Journalism Awards only)
- How many entries may an individual submit?
- What happens after an entry is submitted?
- Is there is an entry fee?
Please contact NIHCM if you have entry-specific questions or if you have technical problems when using the system. We can be reached from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET at 202-296-4426 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .