The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) within the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching the How Prevention Can Create Better Health for Everyone art challenge to raise interest and awareness among young people about how prevention can be used to achieve health equity.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Challenge
Deadline: 01/31/2024
Size of the Grant: $500–$3,500
Details:
NIH invites teens and young adults between ages 13 and 22 to submit original artwork showing how prevention can improve health.
The goal of this contest is to encourage teens and young adults ages 13–22 to share their ideas—through art—about how prevention can help to improve the health of people in the United States, no matter who they are or where they live.
One way to help people have better health is through prevention. Prevention means taking action to keep people from getting sick or injured instead of trying to treat them after these problems happen.
Prevention can include:
- People changing what they do, like quitting smoking, getting a flu shot, eating healthy foods, getting exercise, and wearing a bike helmet
- People changing the environment, like making roads and streets safer, building parks and walking paths, and reducing air pollution
There are some groups of people who often have worse health than the general population. Prevention is especially important to improve the health of people in these groups:
- People from certain racial or ethnic groups (Black Americans or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders)
- People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA)
- People who have lower incomes
- People who live in rural areas
- People who have disabilities
Artwork should show how prevention can help people from one or more of these groups from getting sick or injured. Here are some examples of health issues that can be prevented, but you can choose any health issue that is meaningful to you:
- Smoking or vaping
- Drinking alcohol or using drugs
- Unhealthy diet or eating habits
- Not being physically active or not getting enough exercise
- Infections (for example, COVID-19, flu, HIV)
- Depression or loneliness
- Bullying
- Dating violence
- Gun violence
- Accidents (for example, car accidents, getting hurt at work)
- Sports injuries
Funding Information
Winning entries will be awarded $500–$3,500, and your original artwork will be on ODP’s website and social media!
It will award up to 10 prizes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, and two honorable mentions for each of the two age categories:
Teen category (13–17 years of age at the time of submission)
- 1stplace = $3,500
- 2ndplace = $2,500
- 3rdplace = $1,500
- Two honorable mentions = $500 each
Young Adult category (18–22 years of age at the time of submission)
- 1stplace = $3,500
- 2ndplace = $2,500
- 3rdplace = $1,500
- Two honorable mentions = $500 each
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to win a prize under this Challenge, a Participant:
- Shall have registered to participate in the Challenge under the rules promulgated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as published in this announcement;
- Shall have complied with all the requirements set forth in this announcement;
- Shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States;
- Shall not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within the scope of their employment;
- Shall not be an employee of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS, or any other component of HHS) acting in their personal capacity;
- Who is employed by a federal agency or entity other than HHS (or any component of HHS), should consult with an agency ethics official to determine whether the federal ethics rules will limit or prohibit the acceptance of a prize under this Challenge;
- Shall not be a judge of the Challenge, or any other party involved with the design, production, execution, or distribution of the Challenge or the immediate family of such a party (i.e., spouse, parent, step-parent, child, or step-child);
- Shall enter the Teen category if they are between the ages of 13 and 17 years old at the time of submission;
- Shall enter the Young Adult category if they are between the ages of 18 and 22 years old at the time of submission.
Participation Rules
- Participants may not use federal funds from a grant award or cooperative agreement to develop their Challenge submissions or to fund efforts in support of their Challenge submissions.
- Federal contractors may not use federal funds from a contract to develop their Challenge submissions or to fund efforts in support of their Challenge submissions.
- By participating in this Challenge, each Participant agrees to assume any and all risks and waive claims against the federal government and its related entities, except in the case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or consequential, arising from participation in this Challenge, whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or otherwise.
- Based on the subject matter of the Challenge, the type of work that it will possibly require, as well as an analysis of the likelihood of any claims for death, bodily injury, property damage, or loss potentially resulting from Challenge participation, no Participant participating in the Challenge is required to obtain liability insurance, or demonstrate financial responsibility, or agree to indemnify the federal government against third party claims for damages arising from or related to Challenge activities in order to participate in this Challenge.
- A Participant shall not be deemed ineligible because the Participant used federal facilities or consulted with federal employees during the Challenge if the facilities and employees are made available to all Participants participating in the Challenge on an equitable basis.
- By participating in this Challenge, each Participant warrants that they are sole author or owner of, or has the right to use, any copyrightable works that the submission comprises, that the works are wholly original with the Participant (or is an improved version of an existing work that the Participant has sufficient rights to use and improve), and that the submission does not infringe any copyright or any other rights of any third party of which the Participant is aware.
- By participating in this Challenge, each Participant grants to the NIH an irrevocable, paid-up, royalty-free nonexclusive worldwide license to reproduce, publish, post, link to, share, and display publicly the submission on the web or elsewhere, and a nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice, or have practiced for or on its behalf, the solution throughout the world. Each Participant will retain all other intellectual property rights in their submissions, as applicable. To participate in the Challenge, each Participant must warrant that there are no legal obstacles to providing the above-referenced nonexclusive licenses of the Participant’s rights to the federal government. To receive an award, Participants will not be required to transfer their intellectual property rights to NIH, but Participants must grant to the federal government the nonexclusive licenses recited herein
- Each Participant agrees to follow all applicable federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and policies.
- Each Participant participating in this Challenge must comply with all terms and conditions of these rules, and participation in this Challenge constitutes each such Participant’s full and unconditional agreement to abide by these rules. Winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements herein.
- As a condition for winning a cash prize in this Challenge, each Participant that has been selected as a winner must complete and submit all requested winner verification and payment documents to NIH within 10 business days of formal notification. Failure to return all required verification documents by the date specified in the notification may be a basis for disqualification of a cash prize winning submission.
- Each Participant under 18 years of age at the time of submission MUST have signed permission by a parent or legal guardian to participate in the Challenge. If a Participant under 18 years of age is an emancipated youth, the requirement for parent/legal guardian consent is waived. Emancipated youth (if less than 18 years of age) MUST self-certify their status as an emancipated youth with their submission. If a Participant who is an emancipated youth (under 18 years of age) is selected as a winner, they will need to provide documentation of their status prior to award.
- Each Participant under 18 years of age (and not an emancipated youth) at the time of submission MUST have a parent or legal guardian to accept a cash prize on their behalf if awarded prize funds.
Evaluation Criteria
- Originality and creativity (0–5 points): Is the submission an original work of art? Does it use innovative techniques?
- Quality (0–5 points): Is the artwork well composed/designed (line, balance, color, perspective)?
- Theme (0–10 points): Does the artwork clearly depict the theme of the Challenge?
- Is the artwork relevant to one or more groups who often have worse health than the general population?
- People from certain racial or ethnic groups (Black Americans or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders)
- People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA)
- People who have lower incomes
- People who live in rural areas
- People who have disabilities
- Does the artwork show how prevention can help people from one or more of these groups from getting sick or injured?
- Is the artwork relevant to one or more groups who often have worse health than the general population?
- Impact (0–10): Is the artwork inspiring, compelling, or thought-provoking?
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