Due to the virtual nature of the MICCAI 2020 conference, the MICCAI Society decided to provide award further 50 non-author student member registrations for the main conference to support online participation from diverse members of our global scientific community in this difficult year. The guidelines and link to the application form can be found here.
The purpose of the awards is to strongly support equality, diversity and inclusion and have allocated these MICCAI student participation awards 2020 on a fair basis, respecting our targets of at least 50% from lower-income countries and also being aware of gender distribution to those who identify as not male, and other underrepresented groups.
The award selection committee included representation from the MICCAI Student Board, the MICCAI Society Diversity Working Group, Women in MICCAI, and the MICCAI 2020 Conference Organization, and was chaired by the MICCAI awards coordinator.
126 unique applications received:
- Gender:
- 60 male, 53 female, 11 undisclosed, 1 prefer not to say
- Ethnicities:
- 38 non-Asian/ non-Caucasian, 33 Asian, 33 Caucasian, 22 undisclosed
- Income (by residence, corrected where necessary, following World Bank list):
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- 8 lower-middle income (Egypt, Ghana, India, Nepal, Tunisia),
- 34 upper-middle income (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Turkey),
- 84 high-income (Austria, Canada, Chile, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA - 25)
- Disabilities:
- 6 yes, 74 no, 46 undisclosed
25 applications selected for NSF funded awards (all with US residence):
- Gender:
- 10 Male, 14 female, 1 undisclosed
- Ethnicities:
- 19 Asian, 3 Caucasian, 3 undisclosed
- Disabilities:
- 4 yes, 14 no, 7 undisclosed
50 applications selected for Participation awards by majority vote (3 or more votes):
- Gender:
- 21 male, 26 female, 3 undisclosed
- Ethnicities:
- 25 non-Asian/ non-Caucasian, 2 Asian, 11 Caucasian, 12 undisclosed
- Income (by residence, corrected where necessary, following World Bank list):
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- 8 lower-middle income (Egypt, Ghana, India, Nepal, Tunisia),
- 26 upper-middle income (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Turkey),
- 16 high-income (Austria, Canada, Chile, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK)
- Disabilities:
- 1 yes, 27 no, 19 undisclosed
- Other:
- 1 on parental leave, 1 self-funded
Due to the potentially sensitive nature of the information provided by the applicants, all personal information has been deleted. Only the summary statistic provided above is available, with no names or any other identifiers.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee members for their time, dedication and enthusiasm in selecting these awards.
Julia Schnabel, 26 August 2020 - On behalf of the committee
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