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Communications Award
Purpose of the Award
The ASTMH Communications Award recognizes excellence in reporting and communicating tropical medicine journalism to non-science audiences. The winning journalist will have helped foster the public's understanding and appreciation of tropical medicine research, clinical practice and/or policy. Eligible entries include books; newspapers or magazines; Internet posts such as blogs; TV; radio; and film. Entries will be judged on scientific accuracy, initiative, originality, clarity of interpretation and value in fostering a better understanding of the field of tropical medicine by non-science audiences.
Nomination Form
Available this summer.
Thinking about nominating someone? Read the 2012 Communications Award guidelines.
Past Winners
2012
Jason Gale
Adi Narayan
Bloomberg News
"The Scourge of the Superbugs"
2011
The Financial Times
Science
2010
Tina Rosenberg
National Geographic
"The Burden of Thirst"
Honorable Mention
Robert Guth
Wall Street Journal
“Gates Rethinks His War on Polio”
Donald McNeil, Jr.
New York Times
“At Front Lines, AIDS War is Falling
Apart”
2009
Vivienne Walt
Time Magazine
"Death in Birth"
Honorable Mention
Laurie Garrett
Newsweek
“Path of a Pandemic”
Andrew Jack
Financial Times
"Combating Malaria"
Stephanie Nolen
The Globe and Mail
“Why Are
Millions Starving in a Booming India?”
2008
Charles Piller and Doug Smith
Los Angeles Times
"Unintended Victims of Gates Foundation
Generosity"
Honorable Mention
Susan Okie
New England Journal of Medicine
“A New
Attack on Malaria”
Patrick Skelly
Natural History
“Sex and the
Single Schistosome”
2007
Michael Leahy
The Washington Post
“Breaking the
Cycle”
Honorable Mention
Laurie Garrett
Foreign Affairs
“The
Challenge of Global Health”
Martin Enserink
Science Magazine
“Welcome
to Ethiopia’s Fly Factory”
Robert Poole
Smithsonian Magazine
“The
Ethiopia Campaign”
2006
Celia Dugger and Donald McNeil*
The New York Times
“On
the Brink”
*cash prize declined per New York Times policy
Honorable Mention
John Donnelly
The Boston Globe
“Life
Stories Part 1 and 2: Outlasting AIDS in Africa”
Michael Specter
The New Yorker Magazine
“What
Money Can Buy. Millions of Africans die needlessly of diseases each
year. Can Bill Gates change that?”
Richard Stone
Science Magazine
“Combating
the Bird Flu Menace, Down on the Farm”
2005
Leslie Roberts
Science
“Rotavirus
Vaccines’ Second Chance”
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Bails and Luis Fabregas
Pittsburgh Tribune
Review
“An
Unfinished Miracle”