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Donald Mackay MedalThe Donald Mackay Medal is awarded annually 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 suitable medically qualified individuals. Dr. Donald MacKay, who was deputy Director of the Ross Institute at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, died in 1981 after many years of outstanding work in tropical occupational health, especially on the tea plantations of South Asia. He was an outstanding physician, brilliant teacher, and a man of the greatest integrity and commitment. The regulations for the award of the Donald Mackay Medal
have been agreed by the Trustees of the Mackay Memorial Fund and the
Councils of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The medal is awarded
annually with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
selecting awardees in even-numbered years and the American Society of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene selecting recipients in odd-numbered
years. The Donald MacKay Medal was first awarded in 1990 to Ralph M.
Henderson. 2007 |
