The Gelia Castillo Award for Research on Social Innovations in Health (Philippines)

Through the experience of innovators’ they can better understand why and how social innovations create impact, and discover the keys to scale up or integrate the effective interventions into the larger health system.

For the purposes of this Award, social innovations in health (SIH) are defined as new solutions (product, services, models, market mechanisms, processes) created by multi-sectoral health system actors. The solutions must address a health need more effectively than existing approaches, and have the ability to enhance people’s capacity to act and take ownership of their own health. Social innovations have health-system changing potential as it changes and strengthens relationships between people and results in a more effective use of available resources.

Prize Information

• The top innovations in health will receive a cash prize (PHP 300,000 for 1st place, PHP 200,000 for 2nd place, PHP 100,000 for 3rd place), eligibility for funding for a research and development project, and a training and mentoring package with subject matter experts to enable the project to further expand and scale.
• The training and mentoring package shall be designed to help the top innovation teams create research proposals for further potential funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Award is open to all individuals, groups and institutions that have successfully developed and implemented social innovations in health in the Philippines. Participating institutions may be:
  • public or private
  • members of the consortium
  • scientific, technological and professional societies or associations
  • research institutes
  • universities and colleges
  • others.

For more information, visit DOST-PCHRD.