This is a list of recipients of the Dr Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health awarded by the World Health Organization.

Established in 2008 in memory of Lee Jong-wook (1945–2006) to celebrate outstanding contributions to public health that went beyond the call of normal duties. The prize consists of a plaque and a sum of money which will not exceed $100,000 USD.[1][2]

List of recipients

Yearmail Name Country
2009 Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center[3][4][5]  Georgia
2010 Action for Aids (AfA)[6]  Singapore
2011 Clodomiro Picado Research Institute[7][8]  Costa Rica
2012 Pacific Leprosy Foundation[9][10][11][12]  New Zealand
2013 An Dong[13]  China
Diabetes Society of Maldives[14]  Maldives
2014 Sinata Koulla-Shiro[15][16]  Cameroon
Czech Society of Cardiology[17]  Czech Republic
2015 Thalassemia International Federation[18]  Cyprus
2016 Alireza Mesdaghinia[19][20]  Iran
2017 The Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade[21][22]  Cuba
2018 Nazni Wasi Ahmad[23][24][25]  Malaysia
2019 Balram Bhargava[26]  India
The Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Public Health[27]  Myanmar
2020 João Aprigio Guerra de Almeida[28]  Brazil
The Sickle Cell Disease Consortium[29]  Tanzania
2021 National Research Center for Radiation Medicine (NRCRM)[30][31]  Ukraine
2022 Prakit Vathesatogkit[32][33][34]  Thailand
Severe Hypothermia Treatment Centre[35][36]  Poland
2023 Jorge Francisco Meneses[37]  Guatemala

References

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  2. ↑ "Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize: – IAS gatewayy". Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  3. ↑ "Dr Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". apps.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  4. ↑ "62nd World Health Assembly: photos". WHO. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  5. ↑ "თსუ". library.tsu.ge. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  6. ↑ "KOFIH awarded "Action for AIDS' with "2nd Lee, Jong Wook's Prize"". Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  7. ↑ Entrega Premio Lee Jong-Wook al Instituto Clodomiro Picado 2011, retrieved 2022-12-21
  8. ↑ "Our Mission". Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  9. ↑ "WHO awardees for the Western Pacific". www.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  10. ↑ "Pacific Leprosy Foundation awarded $100,000". RNZ. 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  11. ↑ Stylianou, Georgina (2012-05-02). "Chch-based health group wins US$100,000 prize". Stuff. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  12. ↑ "International award for NZ-based Pacific Leprosy Foundation". www.scoop.co.nz. May 3, 2012. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  13. ↑ "Honouring achievements in public health". www.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  14. ↑ "66th World Health Assembly Update". www.uicc.org. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  15. ↑ "Sinata Koulla-Shiro « Interest Conference". Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  16. ↑ "Cameroon: Prof. Koulla-Shiro Receives WHO Award".
  17. ↑ "Issue 2 A Public Health Advocate for the Poor: Dr. Jong-wook Lee, WHO Director-General". WAMJ. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  18. ↑ "TIF Newsletter January 2014". www.thalassaemia.org.cy. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  19. ↑ "Dr Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". WHO. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  20. ↑ "Alireza Mesdaghinia wins WHO Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health 2016". www.myscience.ch. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  21. ↑ Mitchell, Cristina (2017-05-26). "Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade receives prestigious award". Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  22. ↑ "Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade receives WHO Dr. LEE Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". medicc. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  23. ↑ "Press Statement DG of Health 25 May 2018 – Research Team from the Institute for Medical Research Conferred the 'Dr LEE Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health' at the Seventy-First World Health Assembly". From the Desk of the Director-General of Health Malaysia. 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  24. ↑ "Luxmi Dhoonmoon nominated for a National BAME Health and Care Award". Omniamedsso. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  25. ↑ Nair, Harikrishna K. R. (June 2018). "Malaysian Team Awarded the WHO Dr. Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds. 17 (2): 134–135. doi:10.1177/1534734618784091. ISSN 1552-6941. PMID 29974798. S2CID 49682714.
  26. ↑ Garima (2019-05-27). "ICMR Director Dr Balram Bhargava conferred with Dr Lee Jong wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". medicaldialogues.in. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  27. ↑ "Myanmar Health Promotion Team receives Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". www.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  28. ↑ "Ganhador do Prêmio Dr. Lee Jong-Wook de Saúde Pública 2020, João Aprígio defende mobilização social para doação de leite materno". Agência Fiocruz de Notícias (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  29. ↑ "Sickle Cell consortium awarded 2020 Dr Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". African Leadership Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  30. ↑ "WHO recognizes decades of service of Ukrainian researchers in radiation medicine". www.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  31. ↑ "Ending this pandemic, preventing the next one: European perspectives at the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly -". 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  32. ↑ WHO awarded Prof. Prakit Vathesatogkit on tobacco control in Thailand, retrieved 2022-12-16
  33. ↑ 관리자. "Awards Ceremony for the 14th Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health". Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  34. ↑ "Two doctors due to receive WHO awards". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  35. ↑ "#Poland's Severe Hypothermia Treatment Centre was the first Polish facility dedicated to treating hypothermic patients & one of the world's first medical centers dedicated to the treatment of accidental hypothermia". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  36. ↑ "Awards for outstanding contributions to public health presented during the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly". www.who.int. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  37. ↑ "Awards for outstanding contributions to public health presented during the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly". WHO. 2023-05-26. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
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