The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer and Michael Hulse.

The founders "wished to draw together national and international perspectives on three major historical and contemporary themes uniting the disciplines of poetry and medicine: medicine as inspiration for the writings of poets; effects of poetic creativity on the experience of illness by patients, their families, friends, and carers; and poetry as therapy".

[1] The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine provides international awards for unpublished poems in English by any living poet.

The International Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets was launched in 2012, and is also given for an unpublished poem on a medical theme.

[2] The Hippocrates Prize is awarded at an annual international conference on poetry and medicine.