Records for Life COMPETITION

[Claude Migisha K.]

RECORDS FOR LIFE: A Design Contest that can Save Lives

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched a contest to redesign
the child health record.

The Gates Foundation is seeking creative individuals or teams to
re-examine the current child health record and design new ways to
accurately track vaccine doses, increase ease of interpretation and
use, and incite behavior change to make the record a valued asset for
health professionals and families alike.

To encourage participation and ensure maximum impact, the foundation
will recognize the top entries – selected by a finalist panel
including Melinda Gates (co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation),
Dr. Margaret Chan (Director-General, WHO), Dr. Anthony Lake (Executive
Director, UNICEF), Robert Fabricant (VP, Frog Design), Jocelyn Wyatt
(co-lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org)  and Dr. Walt Orenstein
(Professor of Medicine, Emory)-- with awards of up to $50,000.  Award
winners may have part or all of the top designs piloted and adopted in
as many as 10 countries by 2018.



We are depending on your ideas to improve the child health record,
thereby improving information systems and empowering health workers
and families to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases and
save lives.



For more information, click here:  http://www.gatesfoundation.org/recordsforlife



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:



Orin Levine’s blog about child health records is here:
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2013/06/Records-for-Life-Saving-Lives-by-Design



We created a photo gallery on the foundation’s facebook page to
support the contest:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151737647503072.1073741830.11309713071&type=3
and promoted the content via @gatesfoundation:
https://twitter.com/gatesfoundation and RT from @gateshealth and
@gatespoverty.



Here is a draft tweet for your use:

Gates Foundation launches design contest to help kids get life-saving
vaccines: $50K in prizes  #vaccineswork http://gates.ly/11pMtDg