Center for
Global Health

Call for submissions to the 2024 Global Health Photo Contest. Deadline Friday, May 3rd at 5pm. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners!

Photo by Michael Chua (MS3, 2016) Leyte, Philippines

 

 

 

 

 

 

6th Annual Center for Global Health Photo Contest

Deadline: Friday, May 3rd by 5 PM

Email submission to globhlth@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Prizes

1^st place: $250 Amazon Gift Card

2^nd place: $100 Amazon Gift Card

3^rd place: $50 Amazon Gift Card

Eligibility

1. Perelman School of Medicine students (MD, MPH) and trainees (residents, fellows)
2. Photos must be from a domestic (impacting transnational populations/any CGH-funded opportunity) or global experience within the past 5 years
3. Previous winners are not eligible for 1^st-3^rd Prize but can still submit photos for honorable mention

Categories

Human Rights | Child and Maternal Health | Environmental Health | Community Health | Infectious Disease | Other

Subject matter can include portraits, landscapes, or any subject that depicts a global health issue

Submission Guidelines

1. You may submit a maximum of 2 photos
2. Each photo must include all of the following information:
   1. Name of photographer
   2. PSOM affiliation
   3. Photographer email
   4. Location (city, country) where photograph was taken
   5. Category of photo (choose from 6 categories above)
   6. Date photograph was taken (if unknown, please provide the year)
   7. Brief description of the photograph's connection to global health (150 word maximum)
   8. This affirmation for images containing faces that are capable of being recognized: “For the individuals pictured in this photo, I asked for and received their consent to be photographed.”

Photograph Technical Guidelines

1. Quality of each photo must be at least 1536 x 1024 pixels
2. Format: JPEG or PNG only
3. No collages will be accepted
4. Digital alteration of photos should not be done/kept to minimum

Judging Criteria

1. Initial screening will be based on the technical aspects of the photo i.e. exposure, focus, color, lighting etc.
2. Secondary judging will be based on content (relevance to category), message, theme, creativity etc. by a panel of judges

Additional Information

Winning submissions will be posted on the Center for Global Health website and participants will be notified via email. By entering the contest, the Participant grants to the Center for Global Health a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use such photographs on its website, publicity and other works. The Participant grants the Center for Global Health permission to do so without notifying or seeking the Participant's permission, and the Center for Global Health will not owe any form of compensation to the Participant. This agreement will apply to all photographs and other submissions supplied to the Center for Global Health by the Participant and shall remain in effect until cancelled in writing by either party or superseded by a subsequent agreement.

Email submission to globhlth@pennmedicine.upenn.edu by 5 PM on Friday May 3rd!