The Gates Award has been established to recognize an organization yearly that has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health and has substantively improved the health and the lives of people in need.

Nominators have to consider the following criteria in its work:

• Extraordinary contributions toward progress in the knowledge and practice of health in low-income societies, with a substantial and sustainable impact on the principal issues that contribute to global health.
• An established record of achievement.
• Innovation in program design.
• Organizational capacity; i.e. evidence of financial and program stability.
• Collaboration with others.
• Evidence that contributions have had significant influence or have been adopted across geographic and organizational boundaries.

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