Awards

Honoring Scientific and Public Health Achievement, Legislative Contributions, and Philanthropy

Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement

The Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement is named for Maxwell Finland, M.D., a distinguished scholar and scientist who pioneered work in epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance, and helped define the discipline of infectious diseases as we know it today. The Award, developed in 1988, now recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases or public health.

Some of the criteria on which selection is based include:

Excellence in clinical and/or research activities
Participation in the training of future leaders in the field
Positive impact on the health of humankind

Former recipients of the Maxwell Finland Award are:

2008 Martin S. Hirsch, M.D.
2007 Herbert L. DuPont, M.D.
2006 Robert C. Moellering, Jr., M.D.,
2005 John G. Bartlett, M.D.
2004 George H. McCracken, Jr., M.D.
2003 George W. Comstock, M.D., D.P.H.
2002 Jerome O. Klein, M.D.
2001 Robert Austrian, M.D.
2000 R. Gordon Douglas, Jr., M.D.
1999 Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.
1998 Maurice R. Hilleman, Ph.D.
1997 Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.
1996 The Honorable Paul G. Rogers
1995 The Honorable Dale Bumpers and Mrs. Betty F. Bumpers
1994 Elizabeth Hanford Dole
1993 Arthur Ashe, Jr.
1992 Mrs. Albert D. Lasker and Michael E. DeBakey, M.D
1991 P. Roy Vagelos, M.D.
1989 Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
1988 C. Everett Koop, M.D.

The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind

The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind was established in 1997 by the NFID Board of Directors to honor those individuals whose outstanding humanitarian efforts and achievements have contributed significantly to improving the health of humankind. Criteria on which selection is based include:

Legislative or administrative contributions
Humanitarian service and/or
Public education activities

The Award is named for former President and Mrs. Carter, who as outstanding humanitarians, have worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life for people worldwide. In recognition of their efforts to resolve conflict peacefully, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent and eradicate disease, President and Mrs. Carter were presented with the first Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind in 1997.

Former recipients of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind are:

2008 Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
2007 William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H.
2006 Paul E. Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
2005 Former President Bill Clinton
2004 Henri Landwirth
2003 The Honorable John Edward Porter
2002 William "Bill" H. Gates III and Melinda F. Gates
2001 Senator John D. Rockefeller IV
2000 Robert Edward "Ted" Turner, III
1999 David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
1998 General Colin L. Powell
1997 Former President Jimmy Carter and Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter

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Download 2009 Call for Nominations for the Maxwell Finland Award and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind brochure