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Deadline for Nominations: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Award Background
The awareness and influence of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) is growing significantly as health systems across the globe are increasingly challenged to deliver the best possible healthcare to patients in a budget-constrained environment. ISPOR is committed to elevating research that makes meaningful improvements to health and healthcare, as underscored by the Society’s Strategic Plan 2030.
The ISPOR Impact Award recognizes the positive influence HEOR professionals have in making high-value healthcare (ie, patient-centric, value-based healthcare) more accessible, effective, efficient, and affordable at the international, national, regional, health system, hospital, and/or individual care levels.
This award highlights tangible examples of HEOR insights being used to:
- Drive healthcare decision making to support regulatory, reimbursement, or coverage decisions for health technologies
- Influence policy decisions to optimize healthcare resource allocation or improve patient access, affordability, or outcomes
- Promote evidence-based and transparent healthcare decision making through innovative tools and methods
- Advance patient-centric engagement efforts to ensure that patients have a voice in the healthcare decision-making process
Importantly, case examples will draw a direct line from the work on a project to a meaningful, quantifiable, and clearly articulated outcome (eg, new intervention or benefit approved, new policy adopted, number of patients impacted).
Awardees may include both individual investigators and project teams.Criteria:
- Any individual or project team working in the field of HEOR anywhere in the world, who has made a tangible contribution to make high-value healthcare more accessible, effective, efficient, and affordable through an HEOR initiative (eg, research project, guidance or knowledge transfer, publication, or stakeholder engagement activity) is eligible for this award.
- The award is targeted toward research that has a demonstrated positive impact achieved on patient outcomes, rather than purely academic achievement. Examples include, but are not limited to, a new intervention or benefit approved at the policy level; a new policy or program that has been adopted; the number of patients impacted, QALYs gained, or DALYS averted.
- Case examples should draw a direct line from the work on a project to a meaningful, quantifiable, and clearly articulated outcome.
- Academicians, industry professionals, economists, researchers, and others who meet these criteria are eligible, including ISPOR members.
- Self-nominations are welcomed.
- Deceased individuals are not eligible for the award. However, should the recipient die after the award was granted and prior to receiving the award, it may be presented posthumously.
- A candidate may only be nominated for 1 major ISPOR award in a year.
Nomination Process:
Nominations may be made by any ISPOR member. Members may nominate more than 1 person/entity; however, a completed letter of recommendation must accompany each nomination. Nominators are responsible for ensuring that all necessary documentation is forwarded with their submission.
Nominations for this Award require a letter of support outlining the nomination's rationale, including a background on the nominee/s and their relevant contribution/s, as well as their impact, making explicit reference to how the core award criteria are being met. Additional supporting evidence including public references may also be provided to support the recommendation.
Nature of the Award:
The ISPOR Impact Award will be presented at the ISPOR Awards Ceremony at the ISPOR Conference. In addition to the physical award, awardees will receive the following:
- A complimentary registration to the ISPOR conference (provided to 1 representative of a team, if applicable)
- Travel and accommodation expenses to the ISPOR conference, per the ISPOR Travel Reimbursement Policy (provided to 1 representative of a team, if applicable)
- A $10,000 unrestricted grant
- The award honoree will also have their contribution featured in an ISPOR publication