Hilton Humanitarian Prize Awarded to PATH
Hilton Foundation awards world’s largest humanitarian prize to Seattle-based global health organization for its commitment to lifesaving technologies for the developing world
August 19, 2009
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One of PATH’s current initiatives is stopping diarrheal disease, which kills an estimated 5,000 young children every day. PATH is taking a multipronged approach that includes developing vaccines against the most common cause of severe diarrhea, increasing communities’ access to safe water, and working with partners to develop a disposable “lab on a card” diagnostic device as an easy-to-use and low-cost tool for detecting diarrhea-causing pathogens. Typical of its private-sector approach, PATH is evaluating more than 150 commercial water-purifying technologies such as filters and chemical treatments that could be sold for household use to provide safe water in villages and towns.
PATH was one of more than 200 nominees for the 2009 Hilton Prize, said Judy Miller, vice president of the Hilton Foundation and director of the Hilton Prize. She added that the Hilton Prize international jurors were impressed by PATH’s record of innovation, its keen grasp of potential transformative solutions, and its ability to get affordable products into developing markets.
About the Hilton Prize
The 2009 Hilton Prize will be presented at a luncheon at the annual Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Symposium, which gathers policymakers and leaders in the humanitarian field to address the most challenging issues facing the billions of people who make up the world’s most vulnerable populations.
This year’s Hilton Prize jury includes: Princess Salimah Aga Khan, international ambassador for SOS-Kinderdorf International; Catherine Bertini, former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme and professor of public administration, Syracuse University; Gro Harlem Brundtland, MPH, former director-general of the World Health Organization and former prime minister of Norway; Eric M. Hilton, director, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and son of Conrad Hilton; Olara A. Otunnu, president of LBL Foundation for Children, former UN under-secretary-general and special representative for children and armed conflict and former Ugandan minister for foreign affairs; and Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Laureate in economics and Lamont University professor at Harvard University.
Former Hilton Prize recipients are recognized leaders in the humanitarian world and include: BRAC (Bangladesh), 2008; Tostan (Senegal), 2007; Women for Women International (Washington, DC), 2006; Partners in Health (Massachusetts), 2005; Heifer International (Arkansas), 2004; International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (Denmark), 2003; SOS Children’s Villages (Austria), 2002; St. Christopher’s Hospice (England), 2001; Casa Alianza (Costa Rica), 2000; African Medical and Research Foundation (Kenya), 1999; Doctors Without Borders (France), 1998; International Rescue Committee (New York), 1997; and Operation Smile (Virginia), 1996.
About the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Based in Los Angeles, the Hilton Foundation was created in 1944 by the late hotel entrepreneur and business leader Conrad N. Hilton, who left his fortune to the foundation when he died in 1979 with instructions to help the most disadvantaged and vulnerable throughout the world without regard to religion, ethnicity, or geography. Barron Hilton, who also led Hilton Hotels Corporation and is current chairman of the foundation, has joined his father in committing to leave the bulk of his wealth to the foundation. The foundation along with its related entities has assets exceeding $3.4 billion and, since its inception, has awarded more than $800 million in grants. More than 50 percent supports international charitable projects.
For more information, please visit www.hiltonfoundation.org.
About PATH
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, PATH helps provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think and act. PATH’s work improves global health and well-being.
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