PRESENTING THE FALCON AWARDS FOR DISEASE ELIMINATION
The Falcon Awards for Disease Elimination is an awards scheme that aims to help partners go further and faster towards their disease elimination goals.
Since its inception, the Falcon Awards for Disease Elimination has evolved to tackle critical challenges in disease elimination. In 2021, GLIDE launched the inaugural Falcon Awards, supporting four recipients to advance the elimination of its four focus diseases—malaria, polio, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis in endemic countries. Building on this momentum, the 2023 edition, The Climate Edit, supported formative research to explore the intersection of climate change and infectious diseases. Nine winners were selected, and their six-month research findings were released around COP28, contributing valuable insights to the field. In 2024, GLIDE introduced the Western Pacific edition of the Falcon Awards, aimed at driving disease elimination efforts in the region. Five formative research projects and one advocacy initiative were awarded to conduct six-month projects, strengthening efforts to combat infectious diseases across the Western Pacific. Collectively, these editions of the Falcon Awards demonstrate GLIDE’s ongoing commitment to generating evidence through innovation, fostering collaboration, and advancing context-specific strategies for disease elimination.
