The GLOHRA Prize, launched in 2025, awards two annual €5,000 prizes to completed GLOHRA projects to recognize excellence and innovation in global health research.
A Prize Jury composed of GLOHRA Steering Committee members have pre-selected five projects to pitch at GLOHRA’s annual symposium, GLOHRA Day 2026. In their pitches, the nominated teams will be tasked to present persuasive evidence demonstrating how their projects have made exceptional contributions to global health research. The prize recognizes contributions in the following categories:
- Interdisciplinary and/or Cross-Sector Collaboration: Projects that successfully integrate knowledge, methods, and expertise across multiple disciplines to address complex global health challenges.
- Advancing Equity in Partnerships and/or Approaches: Initiatives that foster fair, inclusive, and mutually beneficial collaborations between researchers, institutions, or communities, particularly in low-resource settings.
- Research Communication: Recognizing projects that effectively translate research findings into accessible, engaging, and impactful communication for diverse audiences.
- Sustainable Outlook: Recognizing projects that demonstrate a commitment to sustainable approaches in terms of longevity of project outputs and/or environmental considerations.
- Capacity-Building for Early Career Researcher(s): Recognizing efforts that empower and support emerging global health researchers through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities.
Two winners will be selected through an audience vote.
GLOHRA Prize Nominees 2026
Children's Well-Being: The Contribution of Family Dynamics and Mental Health to Children´s Wellbeing
Project type: Global Health Postdoc Fellowship
Focus:Advancing Equity in Partnerships and/or Approaches
Team: Dr. Hawkar Ibrahim (Bielefeld Universität)
MARS: Mosquito-based Artemisinin Resistance Surveillance in South Kivu
Project type: Global Health Postdoc Fellowship
Focus: Sustainable Outlook
Team: Dr. Welmoed van Loon (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Dr. Esto Bahizire (Université Catholique de Bukavu)
PreVio: School-based Prevention of Teacher and Family Violence: A Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial in Tanzania
Project type: Interdisciplinary Pilot Project
Focus: Sustainable Outlook
Team: Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker (Universität Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. Janina Steinert (Technische Universität München)
PHONIC: Public Health Operations for Climate Change Action – Development of a Framework to Identify Priority Actions
Project type: Cross-Sector Project
Focus: Research Communication
Team: Dr. med. Karin Geffert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Dr. Franziska Matthies Wiesler (Helmholtz Zentrum München), Maike Voss (Deutsche Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit (KLUG))
ViVac: Violence, Trust and Vaccine Hesitancy
Project type: Interdisciplinary Pilot Project
Focus:Interdisciplinary and/or Cross-Sector Collaboration
Team: Dr. Liliana Abreu (Universität Konstanz), Prof. Dr. Max Schaub (Universität Hamburg), WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Dr. Musa Muhammmad Bello & Dr. Rabiu Ibrahim Jalo (Bayero University and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital)
We thank all nominees for thier submissions and wish them the best on their pitches on GLOHRA Day.
See 2025 GLOHRA Prize Nominees and Winners