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Health and Medical Sociology Excellence Prize

second Edition

The second edition of the prize will be awarded at the closing ceremony of the 22nd ESHMS conference in Krakow, 2028.

If you are an author of an outstanding paper published in health or medical sociology and interested in applying for the 2028 Prize, please subscribe to our newsletter for notification of the official call in early 2028.

The prize is set to be awarded every 4 years.

In 2024 the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) launched the inaugural edition of the “Health and Medical Sociology Excellence Prize”. This award aims to honour and recognize outstanding contributions in the field of health and medical sociology through the acknowledgment of the best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal over the past four years.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The paper must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal between 2024 and 2028 (Online first included) within the field of health and medical sociology.
  • The paper can be empirical or theoretical or both.
  • Papers can encompass a wide range of topics within health and medical sociology, including but not limited to social determinants of health, healthcare systems, epidemiology, and societal impacts on health.
  • Authors from any part of the world are invited to submit their work.
  • The person eligible for the prize has a PhD, or is an ongoing PhD student, when submitting the application.
  • The person eligible for the prize is the first author of the published paper.

Submissions

  1. Authors are invited to submit their paper by TBA in 2028.
  2. Submissions should include (1) a cover letter highlighting the paper’s contributions and justifying its significance in the field, (2) a short CV (maximum 2 pages) detailing relevant qualifications and achievements and (3) the published paper.
  3. Merge the three aforementioned documents into a single PDF file. Ensure the file name follows the format: “ESHMS-Prize-ApplicantFamilyName.pdf”
  4. Submit the application to (TBA).

Selection Process

  • Nominations will be evaluated by a distinguished panel of experts in health and medical sociology.
  • The winner will be selected based on the paper’s originality, methodological rigor, and impact on the field of health and medical sociology.

Important Note: Only one application can be submitted per person.

Prize Details

  • The selected paper will be honoured with the “Health and Medical Sociology Excellence Prize.”
  • The winner will be awarded 1,000 Euros and granted free participation in the next ESHMS conference (TBD 2030).
  • The winner will be informed in advance of the public announcement, with discretion maintained until the official unveiling.
  • The winner will be publicly announced at the closing ceremony of the 22nd ESHMS conference in 2028

Important Dates

Deadline for Submission: TBA
Winner Announcement: TBA

For inquiries and submissions, please contact PD Stéphane Cullati at stephane.cullati@unifr.ch

We look forward to receiving your nominations and celebrating the exceptional contributions to health and medical sociology.

Inaugural Edition

The First Winner of the Health and Medical Sociology Excellence Prize 2024

Dr. Ariane Bertogg

Paper: “Gendered life courses and cognitive functioning in later life: the role of context-specific gender norms and lifetime employment”, published in the European Journal of Ageing in 2023, co-authored with Anja Leist.

Read the update on the journal website.

Dr. Ariane Bertogg is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Zukunftskolleg) and the Department of Sociology at the University of Konstanz.

Her postdoctoral research has focused on the challenges and potentials of population ageing and she pursues several research strands which are located in various fields. The winning article investigates how work biographies in mid-life are associated with men’s and women’s cognitive functioning in later life and how this association depends on the context- specific gender norms.

We congratulate the authors and their publisher for advancing the field of health and medical sociology through this work.

Read the Interview with Ariane