From love of history and ideas in their college years, Gerson and Fielder graduated to shared concern for Africa. Early on, as Fielder helped build HIV programs there, Gerson supplied, in Fielder's words, "intellectual firepower and humbling generosity." By 2010 the two had founded the African Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF) to support Africa's faith-based healthcare workers, who provide one-third of Africa's medical care. 

The result is a practicing Jewish couple advancing essential healthcare led by Christians. "In nearly a decade I've seen limited resources in this community yield extraordinary return in lives saved and suffering relieved," Gerson explains. "The Jewish and Christian faiths share sanctity of life as the highest value. My wife and I are gratified to honor the physicians most effectively employing resources to heal the world's poorest and most vulnerable." 

The inaugural 2016 Gerson L'Chaim Prize drew 26 applications from long-term medical missionaries, Catholic and Protestant, in 12 countries. Projects submitted cover women's health centers, African doctor training, cancer diagnosis and treatment, pediatric surgery training and care, heart surgery, mobile HIV care, malaria prevention, and ER centers. The selection committee combines current and former medical missionaries, African healthcare experts, and on-the-ground clinicians. 

The four finalists for the 2016 inaugural Gerson L'Chaim Prize will be announced in October; the prize is awarded in November 2016. 

Noted medical missionary Dr. Tom Catena--the subject of Nicholas Kristof's widely read impetus for the prize, applauds the effort. "The hospitals and doctors are deeply invested in the community. They stretch a dollar to incredible lengths in service of the poor," he said. "This award will transform healthcare for the winner's institution and inspire others to join as AMHF serves those who need it most." 

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