APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize 2023

24 May 2023

Applications Open for the 2023 APEC Healthy Women Research Prize

The APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize is an annual prize recognizing research that enables policymakers, business leaders, and others to identify and implement measures to improve women’s health in APEC economies, so women can join and rise in the workforce.

Eligibility
Applicants can be individuals or teams, with the stipulation that one official participant be from an APEC member economy. Applicants do not need to come from academia, as long as the research is evidence-based.

Topics
The applicants should aim to address at least one of the pillars outlined in the Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Policy Toolkit: 

  • Workplace health and safety
  • Health awareness and access
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Gender-based violence
  • Work/life balance

Deadline
Please submit application to HWHE@crowell.com by June 3.

Application
For more infomation about the prize and application, please refer to https://bit.ly/APECHealthyWomenResearchPrize

Prizes
The prize winner will receive USD 20,000 and may choose to present their research to APEC gender experts in the public and private sectors on the margins of the 2023 Women and the Economy Forum, hosted by the United States. Two runners-up will receive USD 5,000 each.Dr. Mellissa Withers, APRU Global Health Program Director, is invited once again to be on the judging panel this year.

For inquiries, please contact HWHE@crowell.com