Henri Boulard Award 2022: Cameroon
For this edition, the Henri Boulard Award committee awarded Dr. Michael Besong for his project to mapping and increased awareness around vaginal microbiota and Cameroonian women's health.
IMPROVING GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH MICROBIOTA
To foster its commitment to improving health worldwide, the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation launched in 2021 the Henri Boulard Award.
Henri Boulard is the famous French microbiologist who discovered the yeast Saccharomyces boulardii in the 1920s in Indochina and its virtues against diarrhoea. The Henri Boulard Award is dedicated to improving the management of disorders associated with microbiota.
Because Gut Microbiota is more and more considered an organ, it deserves to be protected. Actions such as educational programs, water purification, farming projects may preserve the organ integrity and may avoid the disorders associated with microbiota dysfunction.
That is why the Henri Boulard Award wants to support 3 initiatives from 3 geographical areas: Asia, Latin America and Middle East Africa.
HENRI BOULARD AWARD CALL FOR PROJECTS 2023
Henri Boulard Award 2022: Nigeria
For this edition, the Henri Boulard Award committee awarded Jennifer Clifford-Nkemdilim for her project to curbing the menace of rotavirus disease in Agbor community and raising awareness on the need for early childhood vaccination.
Henri Boulard Award 2022: Mexico
For this edition, the Henri Boulard Award committee awarded Rubi Viveros Contreras for her project to assess the risk of gut dysbiosis and its correlation with the gut ecosystem of Mexican children.
Henri Boulard Award 2021: Nigeria
For this edition, the Henri Boulard Award committee awarded Edith Odeh for her project to set up a reproductive health facility to address safe contraception methods and the myths behind the use of Ampiclox Capsule as female contraceptive in Nigeria
Henri Boulard Award 2021: Thailand
For this edition, the Henri Boulard Award committee awarded Dr Krit Pongpirul and his team for their project "Waster-based epidemiology linking the microbiome profile of virus, fungi and bacteria for prediction of COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand as an epidemiological surveillance tool"