ANZAHPE Health Humanities Innovation Award Winners

This award was established in 2026, and is generously supported by Dr Zarrin Siddiqui.

About the Health Humanities Innovation Award

The award has been developed in consultation with the ANZAHPE Health Humanities Special Interest Group. Peer recognition for an innovative individual or team that encourages the use of arts and health humanities in health professions education in Australia or New Zealand.

Health humanities in health professions education draws on the arts (e.g., literature, visual art, film, music, theatre, and narrative) and humanities disciplines (e.g., history, philosophy, and ethics) to develop empathy, compassion, observation, critical thinking, communication, personal and professional identity and uncertainty tolerance.

Therefore, this award recognises outstanding contributions to health professions education that thoughtfully integrate the arts and/or health humanities across research, education, and practice. It celebrates individuals or teams who use creative, critical, and human-centred approaches to deepen understandings of lived and living experiences. This has been shown to foster compassion, reflexivity, and enrich learning, care, and scholarly inquiry.

This award honours a remarkable individual or team that aspires to promote humanistic health professions education through a health humanities lens across research, education and practice. The award values work that is inclusive, ethically grounded, and responsive to diverse social, cultural, and clinical contexts.

AWARD WINNERS

2026 - University of Newcastle School of Nursing and Midwifery, Midwifery Team