Prince Mahidol Award

The Prince Mahidol Award (Thai: พระราชทานรางวัลสมเด็จเจ้าฟ้ามหิดล) is a Thai Royal Family annual award for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health worldwide.

Prince Mahidol Award Foundation

King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej founded the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation on 1 January 1992 on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of his father, Prince Mahidol, first under the name "Mahidol Award Foundation", since 28 July 1997 as "Prince Mahidol Award Foundation." In addition to the actual award, the Fund also promotes the memory of Prince Mahidol, who is regarded as the father of modern medicine and public health of Thailand.

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is chairman of the Foundation Committee.

Prince Mahidol Award

The award is given annually in two categories to international personalities and organizations:

For outstanding progress in medicine
For the active promotion of public health.

Between 1992 and 2011, 62 prizes were awarded, including 28 in medicine and 34 in public health.^[1]

The Prince Mahidol Award consists of

a medal
a certificate
prize money (US $100,000)

Nomination process

Any individual or group of individuals may be nominated by a national governmental agency, or by an individual. Nominations are transmitted to the secretary-general of the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation.
The nomination forms are forwarded to the Scientific Advisory Committee for initial screening.
Once screened, the International Award Committee, which comprises several world-renowned experts in the fields of medicine and public health, will consider them and make recommendations to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees makes final approval.^[2]

Prince Mahidol Award Laureates


No.	Award year	Name	Country	Field	Note
1	1992	Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll	United Kingdom	Medicine	deceased (July 24 1997)
2	1992	Dr. Chen Minzhang	People's Republic of China	Public health	deceased
3	1993	John B. Stanbury	United States	Medicine
4	1993	Dr. Ciro de Quadros	Federal Republic of Brazil	Public health
5	1994	Professor William Trager	United States	Medicine	deceased (January 25, 1997)
6	1994	Dr. Ho Wang Lee	Republic of Korea	Public health
7	1995	Professor Egon Diczfalusy	Sweden	Medicine
8		Professor Carl Djerassi	United States	Medicine
9		Professor Frederick T. Sai	Republic of Ghana	Public health
10		Dr. Nafis Sadik	Islamic Republic of Pakistan	Public health
11	1996	Professor Dr. Prasong Tuchinda	Thailand	Medicine
12		Dr. Suchitra Nimmannitya	Thailand	Medicine
13		Professor Vincent P. Dole	United States	Public health
14	1997	Dr. Satoshi Omura	Japan	Medicine
15		Dr. P. Roy Vagelos	United States	Medicine
16		Professor Alfred Sommer	United States	Public health
17		Dr. Guillermo Arroyave	Guatemalan	Public health
18	1998	Dr. Rene Favaloro	Republic of Argentina	Medicine	deceased (July 29, 2000)
19		Dr. Harvey D. White	New Zealand	Medicine
20		Professor Kenedy F. Shortridge	Australia	Public health
21		Dr. Margaret F.C. Chan	Hong Kong	Public health
22	1999	Dr. R. Palmer Beasley	United States	Medicine
23		Dr. Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas	Federal Republic of Nigeria	Public health
24		Dr. Tore Godal	Kingdom of Norway	Public health
25	2000	Professor Ernesto Pollitt	Peru	Medicine
26		Professor David JP Barker	United Kingdom	Medicine
27		Sir Richard Peto	United Kingdom	Public health
28		Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers	United Kingdom	Public health
29	2001	Sir David John Weatherall	United Kingdom	Medicine
30		Professor Lam Sai Kit	Malaysia	Public health
31		Professor Barry J. Marshall	Australia	Public health
32	2002	Professor Thomas E. Starzl	United States	Medicine
33		Sir Roy Calne	United Kingdom	Medicine
34		Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman	United States	Public health
35		Dr. P. Helena Makela	Republic of Finland	Public health
36	2003	Professor Herbert L. Needleman	United States	Public health
37	2003	China Cooperative Research Group on Qinghaosu and its Derivatives as Antimalarials	People's Republic of China	Medicine
38	2004	Professor Norman Sartorius	Federal Republic of Germany	Medicine
39	2004	Professor Jonathan M. Samet	United States	Public health
40	2005	Professor Harald Zur Hausen	Federal Republic of Germany	Public health
41	2005	Professor Eugene Goldwasser	United States	Medicine
42	2006	Professor Stanley G. Schultz	United States	Medicine
43		Dr. Richard A. Cash	United States	Public health
44		Dr. David R. Nalin	United States	Public health
45		Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis	India	Public health
46	2007	Professor Basil Stuart Hetzel	Australia	Public health
47		Dr. Sanduk Ruit	Kingdom of Nepal	Public health
48		Professor Dr. Axel Ullrich	Federal Republic of Germany	Medicine
49	2008	Professor Sergio Henrique Ferreira	Federal Republic of Brazil	Medicine
50		Professor Michiaki Takahashi	Japan	Public health
51		Professor Yu Yongxin	People's Republic of China	Public health
52	2009	Professor Anne Mills	United Kingdom	Medicine
53		Dr. Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn	Thailand	Public health
54		Mechai Viravaidya	Thailand	Public health
55	2010	Robert E. Black	United States	Public health
56		Kenneth H. Brown	United States	Public health
57		Kevin Marsh	United Kingdom	Medicine
58		Ananda S. Prasad	United States	Public health
59		Nicholas J. White	United Kingdom	Medicine
60	2011	Ruth F. Bishop	Australia	Public health
61		Aaron T. Beck	United States	Medicine
62		David T. Wong	United States	Medicine

Additional awardees

References

^ "List of winners". Prince Mahidol Award Foundation. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
^ "Nomination Procedures". Prince Mahidol Award Foundation. Retrieved May 19, 2012.

External links

Official website of the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation

[1] "List of winners". Prince Mahidol Award Foundation. Retrieved May 15, 2012.

[2] "Nomination Procedures". Prince Mahidol Award Foundation. Retrieved May 19, 2012.

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