Only members can submit nominations. (Nominees can be members or non-members.) 

Bailey K. Ashford Medal

Nominations for the 2024 Bailey K. Ashford Medal will open in April or May.
For a list of previous medalists, scroll down.

"The Bailey K. Ashford Medal is presented to a member for distinguished work in tropical medicine. Customarily it is given to an individual in mid-career (within twenty years of PhD or MD)."

Please note: Members of the Awards Committee cannot nominate anyone for a medal, cannot add a supporting letter or be nominated for a medal. Not being eligible to receive a medal also extends to all sitting members of the Board/Executive Committee. The Society encourages members to look beyond elected leadership in nominating deserving candidates. Former elected leaders are eligible.


The Bailey K. Ashford Medal is awarded for distinguished work in tropical medicine. Initially the medal was to go only to workers under the age of 35, but over time the specific upper age limit was gradually increased, and eventually dropped. However, the medal still honors distinguished work in early to mid career. It is awarded every year, and more than one award may be given. Bailey K. Ashford was born on September 28, 1873 in Washington D.C., and was son of Dr. Francis Ashford, Dean of the Georgetown School of Medicine. He received his MD from Georgetown and entered the Army Medical Corps in 1897. After the Spanish American War he was sent to Puerto Rico, in command of medical department troops.

In 1899, at age 26, he recognized that hookworms caused the anemia prevalent among the rural populations and in 1904 he founded the Puerto Rico Anemia Commission to combat the disease. Except for assignments in Washington and France in WWI, he was destined to spend almost his professional career in Puerto Rico, where he died in 1934. He was instrumental in founding the School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico which later transformed into the School of Medicine.

The first Bailey K. Ashford medal was awarded in 1941 to Lloyd E. Rozeboom with support from Eli Lilly and Company.

(Read the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene article about the medal by the man who created the medal's design.)

2023
Andrea L. Conroy
Indiana University
View an introduction of Dr. Conroy by nominator Dr. Chandy John.
 
 
Manoj Theodore Duraisingh
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
View an introduction of Dr. Duraisingh by nominator Dr. David Fidock.
 
 
Philippe J. Guérin
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
View an introduction of Dr. Guérin by nominator Dr. Abib Abera.
 
 
Matt Laurens
University of Maryland School of Medicine
View an introduction of Dr. Laurens by nominator Dr. Stephen Hoffman.
 
 

2022
Subash Babu
NIH-NIRT-ICER, India
View an introduction of Dr. Babu by nominator Dr. Thomas Nutman.
 
 
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
icddr,b, Bangladesh
View an introduction of Dr. Chisti by nominator Dr. Daniel Leung.
 
Robert O. Opoka
College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda
 
 

Silvia Portugal
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
View an introduction of Dr. Portugal by nominator Dr. Louis Miller.
 
 

2021
Natasha Hochberg 
Boston Medical Center
 

Makedonka Mitreva
Washington University of St. Louis, School of Medicine

 
2020
Mahalia Desruisseaux 
Yale University School of Medicine
 
Christian Happi 
Redeemer’s University, Nigeria
 
Meta Roestenberg 
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
 
Andrew Steer
Royal Children’s  Hospital, Australia
 
2019
Shannon Takala Harrison
University of Maryland School of Medicine
 
Sharon Tennant
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Joel Tarning
Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand

2018
Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara
Duke University

 
Tyler Sharp
CDC, Puerto Rico

 
2017
Margaret Kosek
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 
2016
Stefan Kappe
Center for Infectious Disease Research
2015
Peter Crompton
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Jonathan Kurtis
Brown University Medical School




 



 

























































































































2014
David A. Fidock
Columbia University Medical Center

Slobodan Paessler
University of Texas Medical Branch

Elizabeth A. Winzeler
University of California, San Diego

2013
Rick M. Fairhurst
NIAID

Simon I. Hay
University of Oxford

Kristy Murray
National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine

2012
John Crump
University of Otago, New Zealand

Beth Kirkpatrick
University of Vermont

2011
Louise Ivers
Partners In Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Chandy John
University of Minnesota

Joseph Vinetz
University of California San Diego

2010
Carolina Barillas-Mury
Eric Houpt

2009
Jesus Valenzuela

2008
Kevin Kain

2007
Michael Cappello

2006
Jeremy Farrar
Thomas Wynn

2005
J. Kevin Baird
Frank Richards
Mary Wilson

2004
Amy Klion
Xinzhuan Su

2003
Peter Hotez

2002
Edward Pearch
Christopher Plowe

2001
Barbara Mann
David Sacks
Phillip Scott

2000
W. Ripley Ballou
Thomas Nutman
Terrie Taylor

1999
Barbara Herwaldt
Jose Ribeiro

1998
Donald Harn
Ayoade Oduola

1997
James Kazura

1996
Stephanie James

1995
Thomas Wellems
Dyann Wirth

1994
Jonathan Ravdin

1993
Nancy Saravia
Kamini Mendis
Richard Locksley
Wilbur Milhous

1992
Stephen Hoffman
Charles Hoke, Jr.
Diane McMahon-Pratt

1991
Peter Weller
Richard Yanagihara

1990
Donald Burke

1989
Daniel Colley
Eric Otteson
Alan Sher

1986
George Hillyer

1983
Adel Mahmoud

1980
Myron Schultz

1977
James Hardy

1974
Robert Shope
Kenneth Warren

1971
Karl Johnson

1968
Leon Rosen

1965
Franklin Neva

1961
Eli Chernin

1959
Geoffrey Jeffery

1957
Paul Weinstein

1954
Joseph Greenberg

1952
Leo Jachowski, Jr.

1949
Robert Huebner

1947
Jose Oliver-Gonzalez

1945
James Watt

1943
Norman Topping

1941
Lloyd Rozeboom

 
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