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The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) recognizes the vital role of the research mentor who selflessly shares knowledge and skills, instills values and attitudes, and inspires those involved in the research process, thereby creating an enabling environment and contributing to capacity-building in research.

The Best Mentor Award is offered biennially to recognize and reward mentors in health research who have built the capacities of researchers in the health sector and, in the process, propelled significant advances in the Philippine National Health Research System’s (PNHRS) thrusts as identified in the National Unified Health Research Agenda (NUHRA).

Awardees will be selected per cluster (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and NCR) and categorized according to their mentees (Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students and Junior/Early Career Researchers). Also, national winners will be chosen for each category who will be awarded during the PNHRS Week Celebration.

Objective

Best Mentor Award recognizes excellence in mentorship that results in productivity of mentees in health research.

Eligibility

1. Who can nominate

The nominating party may be any of the following:

• head of the nominee’s institution or immediate supervisor

• colleague/s

• trainee/s

• student/advisee

Self-nomination is not allowed.

1. Who can be nominated

2. must be a Filipino citizen

3. must be with appropriate or relevant academic qualifications

4. must be actively involved in mentoring researchers/students or colleagues for at least 3 years

5. has a good track record as a researcher in terms of any of the following: publication, product development or policy formulation

6. professionally involved in health research activities either as a research program/project leader, principal and co-principal investigator, mentor/adviser/trainer, or author/co-author

7. actively involved in any health research activities in the last 5 years such as conduct of research training and extension work, paper presentations, fund generation, research promotion and networking, research agenda setting, and capacity-building activities

*Winners are ineligible for subsequent nominations, while non-winners are still eligible for nominations if they submit a new set of documents but not for consecutive calls of nomination

The Department of Science and Technology- Philippine Council for Health Research and Development DOSTPCHRD) Undergraduate Thesis Grant in Natural Products provides fund support to all undergraduate students who will conduct their thesis on natural products. The program aims to sustain a research culture in natural products to increase the number of research and later on build a pool of researchers/experts specializing in the field. The program supports the Tuklas Lunas (Drug Discovery and Development) program of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) which aims to develop safe, effective, and affordable alternative drugs from the country’s natural resources.

Thesis grants will be given to two (2) undergraduate entries per region (subject to availability of funds). After completion of the project, a competition will be held for selected qualified students to recognize their innovative work on natural products.

Who can apply?
All undergraduate students of Pharmacy, Chemistry, Nursing, and Health and Allied Sciences who have thesis proposals on natural products may apply. The proposed thesis study must use plants indigenous in the region. The project must be completed a year after receiving the grant.

How to apply?

ATTENTION ALL R1HRDC MEMBERS!

As part of the celebration of the Philippine Innovation Month every February, an initiative of the Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation (BCYF) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Lyceum-Northwestern University will be conducting an Innovation Forum on February 9, 2021 at 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM via Zoom and FB Live with the theme “The Role of Innovation in the New Normal”. Expected participants are faculty and graduate students from HEIs, practitioners, and professionals from industry and government service.