{"id":14113,"date":"2013-07-30T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2013-07-30T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:36:08","slug":"call-calling-all-designers-gates-foundation-contest-helps-kids-get-life-saving-vaccines-50k-in-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2013\/07\/30\/call-calling-all-designers-gates-foundation-contest-helps-kids-get-life-saving-vaccines-50k-in-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"[CALL] Calling all designers! Gates Foundation contest helps kids get life-saving vaccines: $50K in prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RECORDS\u00a0FOR\u00a0LIFE: A Design Contest that can Save Lives<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div><b><br \/>\n<\/b>The Gates Foundation is seeking creative individuals or teams to re-examine the\u00a0current child health record and design new ways to accurately track vaccine\u00a0doses, increase ease of interpretation and use, and incite behavior change to\u00a0make the record a valued asset for health professionals and families alike.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage participation and ensure maximum impact, the foundation will\u00a0recognize the top entries \u2013 selected by a finalist panel including\u00a0Melinda Gates\u00a0(co-chair, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation),\u00a0<b>Dr. Margaret Chan<\/b>\u00a0(Director-General, WHO),\u00a0<b>Dr. Anthony Lake<\/b>\u00a0(Executive Director, UNICEF),\u00a0<b>Robert\u00a0Fabricant<\/b>\u00a0(VP, Frog Design),\u00a0<b>Jocelyn Wyatt<\/b>\u00a0(co-lead and Executive Director,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ideo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDEO.org<\/a>)\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Dr. Walt Orenstein<\/b>\u00a0(Professor of Medicine, Emory) \u2014\u00a0<b>with awards\u00a0of up to $50,000<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Award winners may have part or all of the top designs\u00a0piloted and adopted\u00a0in as many as 10 countries by 2018.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We are depending on your ideas to improve the child health record, thereby\u00a0improving information systems and empowering health workers and families to\u00a0protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/recordsforlife\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>gatesfoundation.org\/<wbr \/>recordsforlife<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<\/span>:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Orin Levine\u2019s blog about child health records:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impatientoptimists.org\/Posts\/2013\/06\/Records-for-Life-Saving-Lives-\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.impatientoptimists.<wbr \/>org\/Posts\/2013\/06\/Records-for-<wbr \/>Life-Saving-Lives-<\/a>by-Design<\/p>\n<p>Photo gallery on the foundation\u2019s Facebook page to support the\u00a0contest:<\/p><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/174sGZ5\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/174sGZ5<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SAMPLE TWEET<\/span>:<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\nThe @gatesfoundation launches design contest to help kids get life-saving\u00a0vaccines: $50K in prizes \u00a0#vaccineswork\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gates.ly\/11pMtDg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gates.<wbr \/>ly\/11pMtDg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECORDS\u00a0FOR\u00a0LIFE: A Design Contest that can Save Lives The Gates Foundation is seeking creative individuals or teams to re-examine the\u00a0current child health record and design&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}