

RIHS Societal Impact Award
The RIHS Societal Impact Award is annually awarded to a RIHS research product with a high impact on society. previous winnersRIHS Societal Impact Award
The RIHS Societal Impact Award is annually awarded to a RIHS research product with a high impact on society.
Previous winners
Year | Name/group | Product |
2021 | Fitsum Tadesse | Strategic plan for the surveillance and elimination of Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia 2021-2026 |
2020 | Pauline Bollen, Angela Colbers, David Burger | Simplification of dolutegravir dosing for children |
2019 | Jelle Barentsz, Bas Israëls, Marloes van der Leest. | Multi-parametric MRI in men with suspicion of prostate cancer |
2018 |
Rob Baltussen | Citizen panel on making choices in healthcare. |
2017 |
not awarded | not awarded |
2016 | Jack de Groot | PhD thesis: ‘Decision making by relatives of eligible brain dead organ donors’. |
2015 | Colin Jacobs | The medical imaging software product, developed by Jacobs and colleagues, that was brought to the market as Veolity and DynaCAD Lung. |
Application guidelines
Call is closed. RIHS awardees will accept their awards during the Goodbye & Hello celebration on Wednesday 11 January 2023.
read moreApplication guidelines
RIHS researchers may submit max.1 nomination for each award. Please submit your nominations to RIHS@radboudumc.nl. Deadline for submission is 8 November 2022.
The product should be based on a RIHS project and can have many forms. The nominated researcher(s)/group should have played a significant part in the development of the product and this must be part of his/her RIHS work activities.
Please submit:
- Description of the product (max 250 words)
- Name(s) of responsible RIHS researcher(s)
- Motivation for the nomination (max 400 words). Please use the following headings (if applicable) which will also be used as assessment criteria by the jury:
- Use in guidelines or policy documents
- Implementation in healthcare market
- Societal relevance, including importance for the patient
- Media attention