HCI seeks stories for the Health Care Improvement Database from health workers and implementers in USAID-assisted countries about how you have improved health care in your local setting.  To encourage submission of improvement reports from outside the HCI Project, we are holding a contest for “Best Improvement Report” submitted to the HCI Portal during January and February 2012.

Prize for the winner: The prize for the best improvement report is all expenses paid for presentation of the improvement report as a poster at the Global Health Council conference July 18-21, 2012 in Washington, DC.  The USAID Health Care Improvement Project will assist the winner to prepare the poster, which will be displayed in the poster session of the conference.  Covered expenses include travel to Washington, DC, hotel accommodations during the conference, and conference registration fees.

Contest dates: To be eligible for consideration, the improvement report must be submitted to the HCI Portal between January 20, 2012 and no later than 11:59pm, Eastern Daylight Savings Time, on February 29, 2012.  The winner will be notified and then announced on the HCI Portal home page by March 19, 2012.

How to enter: To enter the contest, participants must first register or login on the HCI Portal  and then submit their improvement report to the HCI Portal’s Improvement Database.  Instructions for submitting an Improvement Report may be downloaded here.

Who can enter: To be eligible, participants must be a citizen of a USAID-assisted country who is living and working in their home country or another USAID-assisted country.  Employees or family members of employees of University Research Co., LLC (URC) or any of its HCI subcontractors (including EnCompass LLC, FHI-360, Health Research Inc., Initiatives Inc., Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs) are not eligible to participate in this contest. Please contact hci-info@urc-chs.com if you have questions about the contest or any difficulty submitting your entry.

Read the winning improvement report and poster from 2011