The Healthy Living Innovation Awards is a new HHS initiative designed to identify and acknowledge innovative health promotion projects within the last 3 years that have demonstrated a significant impact on the health status of a community. The initiative seeks to:
- Celebrate and share innovative health promotion practices across organizations, professions, and communities;
- Increase public awareness of creative approaches that can be used to develop and expand health promotion programs, and to replicate successful strategies in various settings;
- Encourage a culture of innovation, where creativity and cross-sectoral partnerships and knowledge-sharing are embraced, enabled, and enacted;
- Increase the number and diversity of individuals, organizations, and groups addressing community health promotion; and
- Encourage people to incorporate healthy living activities into their daily lives.
Eligible organizations must have an innovative project in at least one of three health promotion areas: healthy weight, physical activity, and nutrition. Awards will be granted within seven categories, described below.
- Faith-based and community-based initiatives
- Health care delivery
- Healthy workplace
- Large employer (> 500 employees)
- Small employer (< 500 employees)
- Non-profit
- Public Sector
- Schools (early childhood programs through 12th grade)
- Let's Move! Cities and Towns
An HHS expert panel will review nominations and choose the most promising innovations in each category. Descriptions of the most promising innovations will be posted on challenge.gov for public voting. The HHS Secretary will make the final determination of winners based on public votes and recommendations from the HHS expert panel. The HHS Secretary will present awards to the winners in a public recognition ceremony in Washington D.C. Awardees will also travel to a national conference, where they will participate in a panel discussion to further disseminate their innovations.
Prizes
Health Care Delivery
Organizations involved in the provision of services, programs, and/or technologies directly related to healthcare services that support health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously.
Healthy Workplace
Large Employer (500 or more employees) and Small Employer (Fewer than 500 employees) Organizations that support a worksite health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously.
Non-Profit
Nonprofit organizations that support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously. A non-profit organization is one that does not declare a profit and instead utilizes all revenue available after normal operating expenses in service to the public interest. It has a 501(c)(3) designation as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
Public Sector
Local, county, state, territorial, or tribal government-based/funded entities that support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously. Federal Agencies are NOT eligible to apply.
Let’s Move! Cities and Towns
Mayors or elected officials that have answered the First Lady’s call to action to become a prospective Let’s Move City or Let’s Move Town and support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously. Nominees only need to specify measures developed to evaluate the performance of the innovation if results have not been collected.
Schools (K-12)
Primary and secondary education-based/originated entities that support a health promotion innovation in at least one of the health promotion areas cited previously.
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How to enter
To nominate an innovation for the Healthy Living Innovation Awards, please first review the eligibility requirements and criteria for selection, outlined in the "Rules" section and the "Judging" section. To download detailed instructions on how to submit a nomination through this website, click here. (You may wish to print this document before you begin.)
To review and post the nomination form, click here.
Only electronic nominations will be considered. ALL nominations must be received by 11:59 PM EST March 1, 2011.
Judges
George L. Askew, MD, FAAP
Administration for Children and Families
Wendy Braund, MD, MPH, MSED
Public Health Branch, Health Resources and Services Administration
Shirley Blakely, Ph.D., R.D
Food and Drug Administration
Laina Bush, MBA
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Ahmed Calvo, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Health Resources and Services Administration
Amanda Cash, DrPH
Health Resources and Services Administration
Andre Chappel
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Rose Chu
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Gilbert Crouse
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Natasha Coulouris, MPH
Health Resources and Services Administration
Lauren R. Darensbourg, MPH
President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
Janet M. de Jesus, MS, RD
National Institutes of Health
William H. Dietz, MD, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Karen Donato, SM
National Institutes of Health
Rashida Dorsey, PhD, MPH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Echezona Ezeanolue, MD, MPH
Immediate Office of the Secretary
Deborah Hipp, PhD, RD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sandy Howard
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Moniquin Huggins
Administration for Children and Families
Dora Hughes, MD, MPH
Intermediate Office of the Secretary
Barbara F. James, MPH
Office on Women's Health
Claudine J. Kavanaugh, PhD, MPH, RD
Food and Drug Administration
Melinda Kelley, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Beverly S. Kingsley PhD, MPH
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Noelle Lee, MPH
Immediate Office of the Secretary
Jessica Leighton, PhD
Food and Drug Administration
Silje Lier
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Iris Mabry-Hernandez, MD, MPH
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Melissa McGowan, M.H.S., C.H.E.S.
National Institutes of Health
Catherine McMahon, MPH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Julie S. Moreno, MHS
White House Office/ Executive Office of the President
David Nielsen
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Melissa Nitti
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Susan Polniaszek
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Meredith Ann Reynolds, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Adele Shartzer, MPH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
RADM Penelope Slade-Sawyer, PT, MSW
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Andrew Sommers
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Kam Sripada, EdM
Administration for Children and Families
Wilma M. Tilson, PhD, MPH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Susan Todd, MPaff
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Jane D. Wargo, MA
President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
Kimber Wukitsch, MPH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Susan Yanovski, MD
National Institutes of Health
Pierre Yong
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Tatiana Zenzano, MD, MPH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Judging Criteria
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Overview
An HHS expert panel will select the most promising innovations in each category. Descriptions of promising innovations will be posted on challenge.gov for public voting. The HHS Secretary will make the final selection of winners in each category. -
Creativity and Innovation (30 points maximum)
Innovation exhibits originality, ingenuity, and resourcefulness in addressing the health promotion area specified. -
Leadership (10 points maximum)
Design and implementation provides direction that other organizations can emulate to address similar health promotion areas. Extent to which the innovation and its leaders actively encourage other organizations to engage in similar initiatives indicated. -
Sustainability (10 points maximum)
Resources and support are available for the innovation. Include information on capacity-building and functioning relationships with other entities that have a vested interest in the continuation of the program. -
Replicability (25 points maximum)
The innovation has the potential to be effectively duplicated, transferred, or adapted by institutions/organizations with similar competencies and for target populations with similar demographic profiles. -
Results/ Outcomes (25 points maximum)
There are specified measures developed to evaluate the performance of the innovation. (Submissions under the Lets Move Cities and Towns category should specify measures developed to evaluate the innovation if results have not been collected.)
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