Deadline: 11 May 2020
The 2020 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize is now accepting applications for outstanding research work that strives to improve women’s health, economic well-being, and chart more inclusive growth.
Launched last year, the prize encourages applicants to promote sex-disaggregated data and gender-based research that will help policymakers and businesses determine and close the policy gaps impacting women’s health. The initiative is supported by leading science and technology company Merck.
The APEC is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific. APEC’s 21 members aim to create greater prosperity for the people of the region by promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and secure growth and by accelerating regional economic integration.
Prize Information
- The prize winner will receive USD 20,000 and have the opportunity to present at the Women and the Economy Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Two runners-up will receive USD 5,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- This year’s prize will accept submissions from individuals or teams (with one leader listed) from APEC economies and whose evidence-based research addresses at least one of the pillars outlined in the Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Policy Toolkit. A background in academia is not mandatory.
- The APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy, Health Working Group, and Human Resources Development Working Group have also endorsed the APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize.
- Not-for-profit entities must be unaffiliated with governments or government agencies to be eligible.
For more information, visit https://www.apec.org/Press/News-Releases/2020/0219_PPWE