Rafael Vilasanjuan, reconocido con el Premio Fundación Anesvad a una vida profesional dedicada a la salud global
The Anesvad Foundation has granted Rafael VilasanjuanDirector of Translate and Impact on Isglobal Society, the Prize for a professional life within the framework of the Tenth edition of its annual awards. The recognition highlights its Sustained commitment to the right to healthSpecial environmental in high vulnerability contexts, as well as supply key in the visibility of forgotten diseases such as Noma. The jury wanted to underline his contributed through projects that combine dissemination, incidence and cooperation, such as «Noma Ecoes», an initiative that addresses the impact of this disease in Mozambique.
Reference in global health cooperation
Rafael Vilasanjuan is a journalist and global health expert with a wide career in Humanitarian crisis management and health promotion promotion. Secretary of the General of Doctors Without Borders, where he led the campaign of access to essential medicines and the creation of DNDI for the development of treatments against unattended cooling. He has worked on the implementation of health strategies in conflict contexts and in the political incidence for equitable access to medical attitude. In Isglobal, director of where it is from the area of translation and impact on society, has promoted the TRANSLACE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TO PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES And has promoted initiatives such as the International Coaliciation of Chagas. Since 2016, it has been a key figure in Gavi, the Alliance for Vaccines, where it has represented hundreds of civil society organizations.
Research and visibility for forgotten cooling: the noma
The prize received will serve to promote «Noma Eco»A project that seeks to raise awareness about the Noma, an infectious and stigmatizing cooling that affects girls and boys in extreme poverty, causing severe facial lesions, in many cases, to manage it. Through this initiative, actions are promoted Awareness, research and strengtheing of local capacities in Mozambique, Country where Noma is still an invisible reality in public health agendas.
Since 2015, the Anesvad Foundation Awards They have distinguished 48 projects and initiatives in more than a dozen African countries, with the aim of making visible and supporting work in contexts where health AcSo is not guaranteed. In addition to Rafael Vilasanjuan, who shares the award for a professional life with the Cameroonian scientist Sara Eyangah, This X edition has also been recognized Joy without bordersFor its digital diagnostic tool in rural areas of Ethiopia; Tim Africa Aid Ghanafor its community focus to combat unmurled tropical diseases; And the Karibu associationFor his work with the African migrant population in Spain.
