The Chalmers Medal is the major mid-career award of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The Chalmers Medal was initially awarded biennially, then annually, "in recognition of research of outstanding merit contributing to our knowledge of tropical medicine or tropical hygiene" and now "to researchers in tropical medicine or international health who obtained their last relevant qualification between 15 and 20 years ago, allowing for career breaks, who demonstrate evidence of mentoring and professional development of junior investigators, and other forms of capacity-building in line with Dr Chalmers’ own values". It is named in honour of Albert John Chalmers MD, FRCS, DPH, who was acclaimed for his work on tropical medicine on the Indian sub-continent.
The award was established in 1921 following a donation by Mrs Chalmers, the widow of Dr Chalmers, and consists of a silver gilt medal bearing the image of Dr Chalmers and the society's motto Zonae torridae tutamen (Guardian of the torrid zone) on one side, and a representation of Anopheles gambiae above a spray of the cinchona plant on the other.
Recipients Source: RSTMH 1923 Émile Roubaud 1925 Warrington Yorke, FRS 1927 H. Lyndhurst Duke 1929 John Alexander Sinton, VC, FRS 1931 Neil Hamilton Fairley, FRS 1933 Saul Adler, FRS 1935 William H. Taliaferro 1937 Rupert M. Gordon 1939 Max Theiler 1941 John W. Field 1943 Robert Kirk 1945 Emanuel M. Lourie 1947 David G. Davey 1949 James Henderson Sutherland Gear 1951 Brian Gilmore Maegraith 1953 David J. Lewis 1955 William Edgar Kershaw 1957 Alexander J. Haddow, FRS 1959 J. Ralph Audy 1961 C.E. Gordon Smith 1963 Ian A. McGregor, FRS 1965 Michael Thomas Gillies 1967 Ronald Harry Wharton 1969 Brian Oliver Lyndhurst Duke 1971 Ralph Lainson, FRS1972 William W. MacDonald 1973 Philip D. Marsden 1974 Alister Voller 1975 David I.H. Simpson 1976 A.R. Gray 1977 Brian M. Greenwood 1978 Jeffrey J. Shaw 1979 Anthony Bryceson 1980 David J. Bradley 1981 David A. Warrell 1982 Mario Coluzzi 1983 George A.M. Cross 1984 Richard W. Ashford 1985 Richard Carter 1986 Michael A. Miles 1987 David Hurst Molyneux 1988 Roy M. Anderson 1989 David L. Sacks 1990 Anthony E. Butterworth, FRS 1991 Kamini N. Mendis 1992 Sebastian B. Lucas 1993 Nicholas J. White 1994 Kevin Marsh 1995 Kevin M. De Cock 1996 Donald A.P. Bundy1997 Charles F. Gilks 1998 Richard J. Hayes 1999 Robert W. Snow 2000 Felicity T. Cutts 2000 Alimuddin Zumla 2001 Peter Winstanley 2002 Francois Nosten 2003 David C. Kaslow 2004 Elizabeth L. Corbett 2005 Peter Mwaba 2006 Nicholas P. J. Day 2007 Jeremy J. Farrar 2008 Michael C. English 2009 Vikram Patel 2010 Jurg Utzinger 2011 Christopher J. M. Whitty 2012 Stephen Lawn 2013 Joanne Webster 2014 Philip Bejon 2015 Simon I. Hay 2016 Abdisalan Noor 2017 Azra Ghani 2018 Rashida Ferrand 2019 Samson Kinyanjui 2020 Katharina Kranzer2021 Charles Wondji 2022 John A. Crump 2023 Faith Hope Among’in Osier 2024 Taane Clark 2025 Joel Tarning
See also
List of medicine awards
References