Dr. Donald Mackay was deputy Director of the Ross Institute at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He worked for many years in tropical occupational health, especially on the tea plantations of South Asia. He died in 1981.
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Donald Mackay Medal
The Donald Mackay Medal is awarded in his honor for outstanding work in tropical health, especially relating to improvements in the health of rural or urban workers in the tropics.
The award criteria are determined by the :
The medal is awarded annually, by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in even-numbered years by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in odd-numbered years. It was first awarded in 1990.
Recipients
2015 Professor Dennis Shanks, University of Queensland Medical School and the Australian Army Malaria Institute (AMI).
2014 Alimuddin Zumla
2013 Myron M. Levine University of Maryland School of Medicine & Gary J. Weil Washington University School of Medicine
2012 Tewolde Gebremeskel
2011 David Sack Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & R. Bradley Sack Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2010 Tran Tinh Hien
2009 Jane Cardosa
2008 Anthony D.M. Bryceson
2007 David H. Molyneux
2006 Paul M. Fine
2005 David L. Heymann
2004 Alan Fenwick
2003 Eric Ottesen
2001 Joseph A. Cook
2000 James L. Tulloch
1999 Franklin A. Neva
1998 Eldryd H. O. Parry
1997 Hernando Groot
1996 Ahmed M. El Hassan
1995 Alfred A. Buck
1994 Jill Seaman
1993 Warren and Gretchen Berggren
1992 Bernard Kouchner
1991 Brian Greenwood
1990 Ralph H. Henderson