Theme - All entries should explore the theme of
DGH's mission, Promoting health and human rights with those who have difficulty making
their voices heard.
Submissions - For each entry, submit one original with your name, age, course of study or job/profession, address and (optional) telephone and e-mail address, as well as seven copies with no identification. Mail entries to the address below. All submissions must be received by October 16, 1998. Winners will be notified November 16, 1998.
Prizes - First prize (1):
Round-trip airfare and basic living expenses for up to two months for the winner's choice
of either: a) Intensive Spanish study in Centro del Estudio de Español "Pop
Wuj" in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; or b) Volunteering with "Médicos por El
Derecho a La Salud" (MDS, Doctors for the Right to Health) in rural Morazán, El
Salvador. 
Second prizes
(3): Copy of Where There Is No Doctor, by David Werner, and one of each of the
Third and Fourth prizes. Third prizes (5): Compact disk or cassette (your choice)
by Sol y Canto. Fourth prizes (5): Cassette of Heroica Morazán by Los
Torogoces de Morazán.
Judges - Renny Golden, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Criminology, Social Work and Sociology, Northeastern U.; Gill Holland, Ph.D., Professor of English, Davidson College; Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Medical Ethics and Humanities Program, Northwestern U. Medical School; Jon Mukand, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Brown U., Boston U., Tufts U.; Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown U. Medical Center; Suzanne Poirier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Literature and Medical Education, Editor of Literature and Medicine, U. of Illinois College of Medicine; Ann Folwell Stanford, Ph.D., Associate Dean, School for New Learning, DePaul U.; Mariu Suarez, Fine Artist, Social/Visionary Surrealism.
Publication - By submitting an entry you agree to give DGH first publication rights should the poem win a prize.
Rules - Entry is open to all
persons without restriction. Students are especially welcome to enter. There is a limit of
11 entries per person. Each entry must be in English, submitted separately and no longer
than 3 pages (entries submitted in Spanish or French will be entered in separate contests
with different rules held in El Salvador and France). 
Entries must be original, written by the person submitting them
and must have never been published, submitted for publication or entered in another
contest. DGH cannot return submissions or be held responsible for their loss.
About the Sponsor - Doctors for Global Health (DGH) promotes the concept of Liberation Medicine: "The conscious, conscientious use of medicine to promote human dignity and social justice." DGH is a volunteer organization with no paid employees that does practical work promoting health and human rights with communities in El Salvador in coordination with Médicos por El Derecho a La Salud, a Salvadoran, volunteer, non-profit organization. DGH also works in Chiapas and other areas in need. We encourage volunteers from all walks of life. If you would like information on how to become involved with DGH, please contact us at the address below. Tax-deductible contributions can be sent to the same address. For more information on DGH, explore the rest of our web site.
Doctors for Global Health
Box 1761, Decatur, GA 30031 U.S.A.
404-377-3566
dghinfo@dghonline.org