Suzanne and Robert Fletcher Prize in Population Medicine

Papers should address the importance of the topic and recommend a policy or practice to mitigate the problem.  Papers will be judged by a panel of departmental faculty on how well they establish the importance of the topic to population medicine, and on the originality and feasibility of their proposed response.  

1. Papers should have a maximum of 1200 words (or 1000 words with 1 small table or figure) and up to 7 references. They should be formatted according to JAMA guidelines for Viewpoint articles ) and be submitted as two Word documents (see below). Name the files as LastName_ShortDescriptiveTitle (2-3 words)_filecontent (titlepage or maintext).
   1. Title page (manuscript title; full names and affiliations of all authors; word count; 3 keywords that represent the content of your paper)
   2. De-identified manuscript file (title; main text in Arial 11-point, single-space text)
2. Students may submit papers individually or as part of a team of up to three students, in which case the prize will be awarded to all coauthors and the $1,000 split equally among them. All coauthors must be current students at HMS or HSDM.
3. Papers may be written in response to the annual Prize announcement, as part of a course, Scholars in Medicine program, or as independent scholarly endeavors, but may not be published or submitted for publication at the time of submission for this Prize.

• 2025: Marium Raza "Hospital at Home – Moving from Promise to Practice"
• 2024: Claire Quinlan "When the Epidemic Ends, Our Work Begins: HIV Primary Care & Global Demographic Change"
• 2023: Sahil Sandhu "Electronic Patient-reported Outcomes: The Missing Link in Population Health Efforts"
• 2022: Kushal Kadakia "Paying for Prevention—The Next Frontier for Value-Based Care"
• 2021: Maya Behn, Erika Lynn-Green, and Inam Sakinah "Early COVID-19 Vaccination for Incarcerated Populations: Prioritizing Population Health"
• 2020: Nicolas Trad "Recognizing Loneliness as a Core Determinant of Health"
• 2019: Sanjay Kishore and Margaret Hayden "Lessons from Scott County: Progress or Paralysis?"
• 2018: Suhas Gondi "Negotiating Prescription Drug Prices to Improve Access and Reduce Costs"