15 Emiratis among honourees as nominations open for Annual Health Awards 2025
Dubai: Nominations are now open for the Annual Health Awards 2025, organised by Health Magazine in collaboration with Thumbay Media. The event, scheduled for 9 October 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Dubai, will recognise healthcare professionals and institutions across 46 categories. For the first time, 15 Emirati nationals will be honoured as part of this year’s edition.
The Annual Health Awards, launched by Health Magazine, serve as a recognition platform for contributions to the healthcare sector in the UAE and the wider Gulf region. The 2025 edition includes awards for individuals and organisations in areas such as clinical care, public health, wellness, education, research, and healthcare innovation.
Nominees may include solo practitioners, hospitals, wellness start-ups, and multidisciplinary teams. Submissions are open to UAE-based and regional contributors whose work demonstrates measurable impact and alignment with healthcare advancement.
According to the organisers, the awards aim to provide public visibility to healthcare contributors and facilitate knowledge-sharing within the sector. The nomination process includes documentation of achievements and contributions, which will be evaluated by an independent jury composed of healthcare professionals, academics, and industry leaders. The process, according to Thumbay Media, is designed to be merit-based and transparent.
Vignesh S. Unadkat, Chief Operating Officer of Thumbay Media, stated that the platform offers large-scale exposure to nominees and awardees through associated media campaigns across television, digital, print, and social platforms.
Nominations will remain open until 20 September 2025. Further information, including submission guidelines and category details, is available on the official website: https://www.healthmagazine.ae/awards/.
The award ceremony will announce the final winners at the Grand Hyatt Dubai on 9 October at 11:00 AM.
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
