Save the Date: HIH Awards 2024

Health Industry Hub Catalysts for Change Awards 2024

We are thrilled to invite you to the Health Industry Hub Catalysts for Change Awards on 16th October, an evening dedicated to celebrating remarkable individuals and organisations that inspire us to challenge the status quo and embark on a purposeful journey to reimagine healthcare.

Awards Ceremony

Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Time: 6pm – 10pm Dress code: Formal – Black tie
Venue: Dockside, The Balcony Level, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour
Finalists: Announced on 28 August >>>
Winners: Crowned on 16 October >>>
Keynote speaker: Dr Ben Bravery – Medical doctor, patient, zoologist

Awards Categories

The Awards recognise and celebrate the MOST VIEWED vodcasts and TOP podcasts featuring leaders and change-makers who have captivated our audience across the healthcare sector, including the pharma, medtech, diagnostics and biotech industries. No nominations are required for this part of the Awards.

We are also excited to honour the exceptional teams and individuals within corporate communications and public relations agencies. These unsung heroes, who collaborate with us daily, will be recognised in the Excellence in Communications awards categories. Nominations are now closed. You may cast your vote here.

Who Are The Judges?

We believe in the power of collective engagement and the strength of our diverse audience. That’s why we are thrilled to announce that once again YOU, our incredible Health Industry Hub audience from the pharma, medtech, diagnostics and biotech sectors, will serve as the esteemed judges for the prestigious Catalysts for Change Awards 2024. Your active participation across all our digital and social media channels will shape the destiny of these Awards as we analyse the engagement data of the vodcasts and podcasts.

Keynote Speaker – Dr Ben Bravery

Medical doctor, patient, zoologist

At the age of twenty-eight, with his science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.

As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally whacked him in the guts, after all. But what he didn’t expect was how being a patient, and a young one at that, would make him feel.

During eighteen long months of treatment, including aggressive chemotherapy, Ben felt scared, overwhelmed, sometimes invisible and often alone.

As he recovered, it struck Ben that after everything he’d been through he couldn’t go back to his former career. He needed a change – and he wanted to make change. He wanted to become a doctor.

Driven by his experience on both sides of the healthcare system, this patient-turned-doctor gives a no-holds-barred account of how he overcame the trauma of his illness to study medicine and make meaningful change.

“Each one of us will interact with the health system at some point, which means we all have an interest in ensuring the ‘system’ doesn’t forget the people at the heart of it.

“Having the experience of being a patient first, and then a doctor, I can understand both sides of the story, and I know it doesn’t have to be this way,” Ben says reflecting on his journey and his memoir The Patient Doctor which is out now.

Join us in celebrating your team and industry peers. The WINNERS will be crowned at the Awards ceremony on 16th October!

With such worthy winners in 2023 and 2022, the Health Industry Hub Catalysts for Change Awards 2024 is set to inspire our collective journey to reimagine the future of healthcare.