Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control
Nominations Are Open
Deadline to Apply is November 25, 2024
Tobacco kills more than 7 million people a year mostly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). These are completely preventable deaths. While average smoking rates have declined globally from 22.8% in 2007 to 17% in 2021, approximately 1 billion people still smoke. The tobacco industry spends tens of billions of dollars annually on aggressive marketing campaigns often aimed at young people, who might be unaware of the dangers of tobacco use.
To address this prevalent issue, the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use helps cities and countries pass and implement measures proven to reduce use and protect people from harm.
To celebrate tobacco control advances around the world, Bloomberg Philanthropies is currently accepting nominations for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control.
Bloomberg Philanthropies will present the awards at the World Conference on Tobacco Control (formerly known as the World Conference on Tobacco or Health) in Dublin on June 23, 2025, celebrating the significant strides organizations have made in adopting and implementing best-practice tobacco control policies.
Key Dates
Nominations Open:
November 11, 2024
Nominations Close:
November 25, 2024
Winners Announced:
June 23, 2025
Nomination Process
The Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control recognize governments or non-governmental organizations (not individuals) from a low-, lower-middle-, or upper-middle-income country, as classified by the World Bank, demonstrating excellent progress or achievement in the adoption and implementation of each of the MPOWER policies.
Monitor: Monitoring and evaluation of the tobacco epidemic.
Protect: Adoption, implementation and enforcement of smoke-free workplaces and other public places.
Offer: Implementation of widely available cessation services.
Warn: Adoption and implementation of high-quality public education campaigns or pack warnings, or other means to warn the public about the dangers of tobacco use.
Enforce: Adoption, implementation and enforcement of advertising, promotion, and sponsorship bans.
Raise: Significant tobacco price increase to the consumer or the creation and implementation of major strategies to combat the illicit tobacco trade.
Eligibility for nomination
To be nominated, the following criteria must be met:
- The entity must be a government or non-governmental organization (NGO); individuals are not eligible for awards, only their affiliated government or organizations;
- the nominated government/NGO must be from a low-, lower-middle-, or upper-middle-income country, as classified by the World Bank;
- the nominated government/NGO must have demonstrated excellent progress or achievement in the adoption and implementation in one of the MPOWER policies since 2018;
- the nominated government/NGO must have no tobacco industry affiliation or relationship, current or past.
- Governments and NGOs meeting the criteria above may be nominated by an outside person or may self-nominate.
Nominations that do not meet the above requirements will not be considered.
The nomination form may be accessed below in 6 languages, and translated PDF versions of the guidelines are available in here in 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español, Português.
Past Events
The Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control were first hosted in 2009 at the World Health Conference on Tobacco for Health in Mumbai and most recently in 2018, when the Conference was held in Cape Town.
In 2018, the winners were:
M: Ministry of Health Vietnam
P: Fondo Solidario para la Salud (FOSALUD) de El Salvador
O: Fundación Interamericana del Corazón México
W: Ministry of Health Senegal
E: Uganda National Health Consumers’ Organization
R: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Treasury Argentina, and FIC (joint award)
Watch highlights from the 2018 Awards for Global Tobacco Control
Contact
Please direct any questions to the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health team at tobaccocontrolawards@bloomberg.org