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 pre-selected five projects to pitch at GLOHRA’s annual symposium, GLOHRA Day 2026. In their pitches, the nominated teams were tasked to demonstrate 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.
2026 GLOHRA Prize Winners
Following presentations from five nominated research teams at GLOHRA Day, participants voted to select this year's prize recipients:
- Dr. Welmoed van Loon was awarded the prize for her global health postdoc project Mosquito-based Artemisinin Resistance Surveillance (MARS). The project brought together partners from Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to develop and evaluate a community-based approach to monitoring antimalarial drug resistance. By demonstrating the feasibility of mosquito-based surveillance, the project provides a promising approach for strengthening resistance monitoring in resource-constrained settings. Learn more about the MARS project from the project report here.
- Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker, Prof. Dr. Janina Steinert and Eluid Kabelege were awareded the prize for their interdisciplinary pilot project School-based Prevention of Teacher and Family Violence (PreVio). Conducted in Tanzania, the project evaluated a combined intervention for teachers and parents to reduce violence against children at school and at home. The findings demonstrate the feasibility and strong acceptance of a coordinated, community-based approach to violence prevention. Learn more about the PreVio project from the project report here.
Congratulations to both project teams on this well-deserved recognition of their contributions to global health research.
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)
See 2025 GLOHRA Prize Nominees and Winners