Awards, Honors and Scholarships
Awards
Communications
Award
To recognize exceptional achievement in tropical medicine journalism
with the potential to educate lay readers and inform public policy
regarding diseases and health conditions specific to poor and
underserved populations.
Bailey K.
Ashford Medal - Submit your online
application here beginning May 10.
The Bailey K. Ashford Medal is awarded for distinguished work in
tropical medicine to a worker in his or her early or mid-career.
Ben Kean
Medal - Submit your online
application here beginning May 10.
To recognize a clinician or educator whose dedication to clinical
tropical medicine and impact on the training of students, fellows and/or
practitioners of tropical medicine is in keeping with the tradition
established by Dr. Kean
Joseph
Augustin LePrince Medal
In recognition of outstanding work in the field of malariology.
Donald Mackay
Medal - Submit your online
application here beginning May 10.
For outstanding work in tropical health, especially relating to
improvements in the health of rural or urban workers in the tropics.
Preference is given to medically qualified individuals.
Walter Reed
Medal
To recognize distinguished accomplishment in the field of tropical
medicine.
Elsevier Clinical
Research Award- Download
the application guidelines. Submit your online
application here beginning April 3.
Recognizes excellence in research presented by a student at the annual
meeting.
Dalrymple/Young Award- Submit your online
application here beginning May 8.
Presented to a mid-career investigator who has made an outstanding
contribution to arbovirology.
Richard M. Taylor Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to arbovirology throughout a
career.
Harry Hoogstraal Medal- Submit your online
application here beginning May 8.
Recognizes outstanding achievement in medical entomology.
Scherer/Hardy
Award- Submit
your online application here beginning May 8.
Presented to an outstanding graduate either before graduation or up to
three years post-graduation.
Young
Investigator Award-
To recognize the work of young investigators and to encourage developing
scientists to pursue careers in various aspects of tropical disease
research.
Annual
Meeting Travel Awards
To support annual meeting travel of selected students and young
investigators from the United States. and abroad.
Honorary International Fellow of
ASTMH (formerly Honorary Members).
Recognizes individuals outside the United States for eminent
contributions to the field of tropical medicine.
Named Lectures
Charles F.
Craig Lecture
Presented in alternate years at the ASTMH Annual Meeting by a
distinguished worker in the field of tropical medicine.
Fred L. Soper
Lecture
Presented in alternate years at the ASTMH Annual Meeting by a
distinguished scientist involved in studies related to environmental
control and preventive medicine in the tropics.
Commemorative
Fund Lecture
Presented annually by an invited senior researcher resident in the
tropics.
Fellowships
Burroughs
Wellcome Fund-ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious
Diseases
Provides research support for individuals enrolled in infectious disease
fellowship programs who will spend a portion of their time working on
research in a tropical or developing area.
Gorgas
Memorial Institute Research Award
Designed to enhance and facilitate the development of scientific
linkages between Panama, nationas of Central America and the Caribbean
Islands, and the United States and Canada through support of short-term
travel for young research investigators from these regions.
Benjamin
H. Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
This fellowship is designed to support medical students, house staff and
fellows involved in clinical or research electives in tropical
areas.
Robert
E. Shope International Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
This award provides support for a short-term research experience in the
tropics in the area of arbovirology and/or emerging diseases.
Centennial
Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research
This award provides support for a short-term research experience in the
tropics.
Subgroup Awards
For information about awards given by Society subgroups, visit these
sites:
* American Committee on
Arthropod-Borne Viruses (ACAV)
* American Committee of Medical
Entomology (ACME)
* Clinical
Group (American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and
Travelers' Health - ACCTMTH)
* American Committee of Molecular,
Cellular and Immunoparasitology (ACMCIP)
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