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

Walter Reed Medal

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

"The Walter Reed Medal recognizes distinguished accomplishment in the field of tropical medicine."
Starting in 2021, the Walter Reed Medal will be awarded annually.

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 Walter Reed Medal is awarded every year to recognize distinguished accomplishments in the field of tropical medicine. The story of how Walter Reed led the Yellow Fever Commission in Havana that discovered the mosquito vector of the disease is legendary. The first award was made to Mrs. Walter Reed and to the Rockefeller Foundation. It is of interest that in 1942 in a spirit of ecumenism, the award was made posthumously to Carlos J. Finlay - a Cuban contemporary of Walter Reed - to whom many Latin Americans credit the original idea that yellow fever was a mosquito-borne disease.

2023
Charles H. Calisher
Colorado State University
View an introduction of Dr. Calisher by nominator Dr. Thomas Monath.
 
2022
William A. Petri, Jr.
University of Virginia School of Medicine
View an introduction of Dr. Petri by nominator Dr. Louis Miller.

2021
Dyann Wirth
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 

2020
Myron “Mike” Levine 
University of Maryland School of Medicine
 
2017
Scott Halstead
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2015 (In Memoriam)
Alan J. Magill 
Immediate Past President, ASTMH
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation






































2014
Scott C. Weaver
University of Texas Medical Branch

2011
Louis Miller
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

2005
Karl Johnson

2008
Richard L. Guerrant

2005
Karl Johnson

2002
Thomas Monath

1999
Philip Russell

1996
Thomas Weller

1993
Donald Henderson
George Craig, Jr.
Robert Shope

1990
Paul Beaver
Will Burgdorfer

1987
William Reeves

1984
Wilbur Downs

1981
Harry Most

1978
Harry Hoogstraal

1975
Robert Briggs Watson

1972
Fred Soper

1969
Albert Sabin

1966
Henry Meleney

1963
Ernest Carroll Faust

1962
William Cort

1960
Sir Gordon Covell

1958
Willard Wright

1956
Karl Meyer

1953
Lewis Hackett

1950
Rolla Dyer

1948
N. Swellengrebel

1946
Paul Russell

1944
James Simmons

1942
Carlos Finlay

1940
Herbert Clark

1939
William Castle

1936
Mrs. Walter Reed
The Rockefeller Foundation

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