Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine

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The '''Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine''', formerly known as the '''Jenner Memorial Medal''' or the '''Jenner Medal''' of the Epidemiological Society of London, is awarded from time to time by the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London, at the recommendation of its Epidemiology and Public Health Section, to individuals who have undertaken distinguished work in epidemiological research or made significant contributions in preventing and controlling epidemic disease. It is named in honour of Edward Jenner's discovery of a means of smallpox vaccination. The first Medal was awarded in 1898, presented by Sir Patrick Manson to Sir William Henry Power, the then Medical Officer of Health for London.

The Medal was designed in bronze by Allan Wyon. The date of the award and recipient's name is engraved on the rim. A three-quarter face of Jenner is engraved on the obverse, and on the reverse is depicted a globe. The original by-laws, published in 1898, stated that the medal should commonly be called the "Jenner Medal", the awardee not be confined to only the British, and that the Epidemiological Society Council would determine when and who receives it. The regulations were revised in 1951, with the recommendation that the Medal be awarded not more frequently than once in five years.

==Foundation== The Jenner Medal was founded on 15 May 1896 at a meeting of the Epidemiological Society of London (1850–1907), during the presidency of Sir Shirley Murphy, to commemorate the centenary of Edward Jenner's discovery of a means of smallpox vaccination.<ref name=Trans1897>{{cite journal |title=The Jenner Memorial Medal |journal=Transactions. Epidemiological Society of London |date=1897 |volume=16 |pages=287–288 |issn=0951-4430|pmid=29419146|pmc=5540069 }}</ref><ref name=JCC1923>{{cite journal |title=Jenner Centenary Celebrations|volume=1|issue=3240|pages=203–206|journal= British Medical Journal |pmc=2315950|year=1923|pmid=20771001|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3240.203}}</ref>{{efn|Several medals were produced to commemorate Jenner's smallpox vaccine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edward Jenner medal: Friedrich Wilhelm Loos |url=https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/to-slay-the-devouring-monster/item/6635 |website=collections.countway.harvard.edu |access-date=16 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616101212/https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/to-slay-the-devouring-monster/item/6635 |archive-date=16 June 2024 |language=English}}</ref><ref name=Esparza2020>{{cite journal |last1=Esparza |first1=José |title=Early vaccine advocacy: Medals honoring Edward Jenner issued during the 19th century |journal=Vaccine |date=5 February 2020 |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=1450–1456 |doi=10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.11.077 |pmid=31839464 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X19316317 |issn=0264-410X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>}}

The founding committee was made up of Murphy, Sir Richard Thorne Thorne, Theodore Preston, Frank Clemow, R. D. Sweeting, Bulstrode and Coupland.<ref name=Trans1897/> Appeals for funds were made through medical journals.<ref name=Trans1897/><ref name=Hunting2002>{{Cite book |title=The History of The Royal Society of Medicine |last=Hunting |first=Penelope |publisher=Royal Society of Medicine Press |year=2002 |isbn=1-85315-497-0 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hFNrAAAAMAAJ |chapter=7. The first sections at the Society |pages=230–235}}</ref> Subscribers included the Epidemiological Society, Thorne, Murphy, John C. McVail, Thomas H. Wakley, Sir James Donnet, Sir William Broadbent, Robert Barnes, Andrew Davidson, Sir Edwin Saunders, Philip Pye-Smith, Joseph Frank Payne, Sir John Simon, and Sir James Paget.<ref name=Trans1897/> From outside the UK, subscribers included Kalman Muller from Budapest, Prospero Sonsino from Pisa, Rudolph H. Saltet from Amsterdam, and Joseph D. Tholozan from Teheran.<ref name=Trans1897/>

==Design== thumb|Jenner Meda (obverse)l thumb|Jenner Medal (reverse) The medal, a coin, was designed in bronze by Allan Wyon.<ref name=Hunting2002/> The date of the award and recipient's name is engraved on the rim.<ref name=JCC1923/> A three-quarter face of Jenner is engraved on the obverse, and accompanied are the words:

<blockquote>Edward Jenner, M.D., F.R.S, born 1749, died 1823<ref name=JCC1923/></blockquote>

The symbol of the Epidemiological Society, the Earth, is depicted on the reverse.<ref name=JCC1923/><ref name=Hunting2002/> Around the circumference are the words: <blockquote>Centenary of Vaccination Celebrated 1896. For Work of Great Merit. Epidemiological Society of London. ''Venienti Occurrite Morbo''<ref name=JCC1923/></blockquote>

==Regulations== The by-laws, published in 1898, stated that the medal should commonly be called the "Jenner Medal", the awardee not be confined to only the British, and that the Epidemiological Society Council, via its Jenner Medal sub-committee consisting of its president, treasurer and honorary secretaries, would determine when and who receives it.<ref name=Trans1898>{{cite journal |title=The Jenner Memorial Medal |journal=Transactions. Epidemiological Society of London |date=1898 |volume=17 |page=120 |issn=0951-4430|pmid=29419129|pmc=5540021 }}</ref>

The medal was re-cast by Wyon following the merger of the Epidemiological Society with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London in 1907, when it became the Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine of the RSM.<ref name=Hunting2002/><ref name=ESGBM>{{cite web |title=The Epidemiological Society of Great Britain Medal |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/medicalprofession/epidemiologicalsocietymedal.html#:~:text=The%20Edward%20Jenner%20was%20instituted,globe%20of%20the%20Epidemiological%20Society. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615050042/https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/medicalprofession/epidemiologicalsocietymedal.html |archive-date=15 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=archiveshub.Jisc}}</ref>{{efn| Photographs of the medal can be found in Penelope Hunting's ''The History of the Royal Society of Medicine'' published in 2002.<ref name=Hunting2002/>}} The new Epidemiological Section then made their recommendation to the RSM Council, who were to bestow the Medal.<ref name=JCC1923/><ref name=SN1981/>

In 1951, a sub-committee was established to revise the by-laws, following the eleventh award to Glover.<ref name=ESM1953>''Epidemiology Section Minutes'' (1951–1953), Royal Society of Medicine, London. p. 89</ref> The Jenner Medal sub-committee consisted of Robert Cruickshank, then the Section president, W. Charles Cockburn and Ian Taylor, the two honorary secretaries, and Glover.<ref name=ESM1953/> After considering the notability of the former awardees, they recommended that the Medal be awarded not more frequently than once in five years, and that it be a standing item on the agenda of the Section Council meeting preceding their annual meeting each year.<ref name=ESM1953/>{{efn|The subsequent two Medals were awarded with an interval less than five years apart.<ref name=ESM1953/>}} Awarding it too often was seen to diminish its value, and that it had not generally been awarded regularly highlighted that the Section Council were not always aware of its details.<ref name=ESM1953/>

==Awards== The purpose of the award is to reward an individual for significant work in epidemiology or contributions in preventing and controlling epidemic disease.<ref name=SN1981/> The Medal was first awarded on 24 June 1898 to Sir William Henry Power, who was the then Medical Officer of Health for London, and had chaired the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.<ref name=Hunting2002/><ref name=Trans1898/><ref name=RCSE>{{cite web |title=Power, Sir William Henry (1842–1916) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal?d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ASSET%2F0%2FSD_ASSET%3A375171%7E%7E0&ic=true |website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk |publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of English |access-date=15 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615052119/https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal?d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ASSET%2F0%2FSD_ASSET%3A375171%7E%7E0&ic=true |archive-date=15 June 2024}}</ref> It was subsequently awarded to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, for discovering the malaria parasite, and then Sir Patrick Manson, for showing that it was carried by a mosquito.<ref name=Hunting2002/>

In 1923, the Medal featured at a RSM event to commemorate the centenary of Jenner's death.<ref name=JCC1923/> There, delegates passed anti-vaccinationists before entering the building.<ref name=JCC1923/> When James Alison Glover won the eleventh Medal in 1951, he mentioned that he had been acquainted with seven of the previous ten recipients.<ref name=BMJ1951/> The 1962 award to Leonard Colebrook was timed with the centenary of the birth of Sidney Monckton Copeman, who had won it himself 37 years earlier.<ref Name="PRSM1962" /> Donald Henderson received the Medal in 1996, the year of the Jenner's discovery's bicentenary.<ref name=Hunting2002/><ref name=Stanwell-Smith1996>{{cite journal |last1=Stanwell-Smith |first1=Rosalind |title=Immunization: Celebrating the past and Injecting the Future |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=September 1996 |volume=89 |issue=9 |pages=509–513 |doi=10.1177/014107689608900909 |pmid=8949520 |language=en |issn=0141-0768|pmc=1295915 }}</ref>

==Recipients== {{Incomplete list|date=June 2024}} {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |+ Known recipients of the Jenner Medal ! scope=col | {{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! scope=col | Year ! scope=col | Recipient ! scope=col | Nationality ! scope=col style="width:80em" |Notes {{Reference heading}} ! scope=col | Image |- |1||1898 ||Sir William Henry Power (1842–1916) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||Power formulated the theory of airborne transmission of smallpox after observing the smallpox epidemics of 1871–1872 and 1881 in London.<ref name=RCSE/><ref name=RSMepidem>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/downloads/ep-public-history.pdf |title=History of the section of Epidemiology & Public Health |access-date=18 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915111235/http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/downloads/ep-public-history.pdf |archive-date=15 September 2012 }}</ref><ref name=DNB.Power>{{cite ODNB |last1=Hardy |first1=Anne |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004 |isbn=0-19-861395-4 |pages=146–147 |chapter-url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35595 |language=en |chapter=Power, Sir William Henry (1842–1916), epidemiologist and civil servant|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35595}}</ref>

Presented by Manson.<ref name=ESGBM/>

||150px |- |2 ||1902||Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) || {{flagu|France}} ||Known for his discovery of the malaria parasite.<ref name=JCC1923/><ref name=Sequeira1930>{{cite journal |last1=Sequeira |first1=James H. |title=Alphonse Laveran And His Work |journal=The British Medical Journal |date=1930 |volume=1 |issue=3624 |pages=1145–1147 |doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3624.1145 |issn=0007-1447|pmid=20775532|pmc=2313558 }}</ref> ||150px |- |3 ||1912||Sir Patrick Manson (1844–1922) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}}||Presented on 22 March 1912 by the Epidemiological Section president Theodore Thomson, the Medal was awarded to Manson for his discovery of the mosquito as a carrier of the malaria parasite; mosquito-malaria theory.<ref name=JCC1923/><ref name=PRSM1912>{{cite journal |title=Presentation of the Jenner Medal |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=5 |issue=Sect Epidemiol State Med |page=149 |year=1912 |pmid=19976307 |pmc=2005375|doi=10.1177/003591571200501406 }}</ref> ||150px |- |4||1921 ||Sir {{ill|Shirley Forster Murphy|qid=Q18912729}} (1841–1923) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||A former president of the Epidemiological Society, Murphy played a significant role in reducing deaths of babies in London.<ref name=JCC1923/><ref>{{cite web|url = http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002781b.htm|title=Murphy, Sir Shirley Forster (1848–1923) |publisher= Royal College of Surgeons|access-date= 18 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615124204/https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:374964/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002781%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier|archive-date=15 June 2024}}</ref> || |- |5 ||1922||John Christie McVail (1849–1926) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||<ref name=JCC1923/><ref>Makins, G., Sankey, S. and Lithgow, S., [https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.1016%252Fs0140-6736%252800%252986344-8.zip&file=10.1016%252Fs0140-6736%252800%252994882-7.pdf "that only four persons had previously been its recipient-namely, W. H. Power, Laveran, Patrick Manson, and Shirley Murphy-so that Dr. Me Vail was joining"]. ''The Lancet'', p.143, Royal Society of Medicine Annual Dinner. 15 July 1922</ref> || |- |||1925 ||Sidney Monckton Copeman (1862–1947) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||At the time, Copeman was Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health, and the following year he became the Epidemiology Section's president.<ref name=Hunting2002/><ref Name="PRSM1962">{{cite journal |title=Presentation of Jenner Medal |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=55 |issue=10 |page=850 |date=October 1962 |pmid=19994185 |pmc=1896896|doi=10.1177/003591576205501007 }}</ref> ||150px |- | || ||Major Greenwood (1880–1949) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||<ref name=BMJ1951>{{cite journal |title=Jenner Memorial Medal |journal=British Medical Journal |date=26 May 1951 |volume=1 |issue=4716 |pages=1201–1202 |pmc=2069018 |issn=0007-1447}}</ref>{{efn|According to Glover's autobiography, the seventh awardee was possibly Greenwood<ref name=Glover2024>{{cite book |last1=Glover |first1=James Alison |editor1-last=Glover |editor1-first=Richar |title=All the changing years; the autobiography of James Alison Glover for his grandchildren |date=2024 |publisher=Riverside Publishing Company|chapter=1948 to second retirement June 1951|pages=493–499}} </ref>}} ||150px |- |||Before 1933 ||Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson (1870–1932) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||<ref name=BMJ1951/><ref name=MG.Obit1933>{{cite journal |last1=G. |first1=M. |title=Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society |date=1933 |volume=96 |issue=1 |pages=151–156 |jstor=2341892 |issn=0952-8385}}</ref> || |- |9||1935 ||Sir {{ill|George Seaton Buchanan|qid=Q18546183}} (1869–1936) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || Presented on 25 January 1935.<ref>{{cite journal |title=British Medical Journal |journal=BMJ |date=1 January 1935 |volume=1 |issue=3863 |pages=113–118 |doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3863.113 |pmc=2459396 |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Sir George Seaton Buchanan, C.B. M.D., F.R.C.P |journal=British Medical Journal |date=17 October 1936 |volume=2 |issue=3954 |pages=788–789 |pmid=20780184 |pmc=2457539 |issn=0007-1447}}</ref><ref name=BMJ1951/><ref>{{cite web|url= http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/633|title= George Seaton (Sir) Buchanan|publisher= Royal College of Physicians|access-date= 24 November 2015|archive-date= 5 March 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010600/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/633|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Buchanan, Sir George Seaton (1869–1936), expert in public health |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32149 |date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32149 }}</ref> ||150px |- |10||1938||Arthur Newsholme (1857–1943) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/142287b0 |bibcode=1938Natur.142R.287. |title=Announcements |year=1938 |journal=Nature |volume=142 |page=287 |issue=3589|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/reprint/28/10/1260.pdf |title=News from the field|date=October 1938|pages=1260–1268|volume=28|journal=American Journal of Public Health|doi=10.2105/AJPH.28.10.1260|issue=10}}</ref> ||150px |- |11||1951 || James Alison Glover (1874–1963) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||Known as the "good friend of the private soldier", Glover was known for his work on carrier rates of meningococcus and overcrowding, and showing that cases of rheumatism occurred after outbreaks of sore throats caused by ''Streptococcus pyogenes''.<ref name=BMJ1951/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Storey |first1=Geoffrey O |title=James Alison Glover (1874–1963), OBE (1919) CBE (1941) MD (1905) DPH (1905) FRCP (1933) |journal=Journal of Medical Biography |date=May 2004 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=77–81 |doi=10.1177/096777200401200206 |pmid=15079164 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096777200401200206 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=Trail>{{cite web |last1=Trail |first1=Richard R. |title=James Alison Glover |url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/james-alison-glover |website=history.rcplondon.ac.uk |publisher=Royal College of Physicians |access-date=12 June 2024}}</ref>

Presented by the RSM president Lord Webb-Johnson.<ref name=BMJ1951/> || |- |12||1953||Alexander Thomas Glenny (1882–1965) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||Contributions to diphtheria immunisation<ref name=Hunting2002/> ||150px |- |13||1956 ||Percy Stocks (1889–1974) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || Presented by Sir Clement Price Thomas on 16 November 1956.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Medical News |journal=British Medical Journal |date=11 November 1956 |volume=2 |issue=5001 |pages=1128–1130 |doi=10.1136/bmj.2.5001.1128 |pmc=2035878 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4257|title= Percy Stocks|publisher= Royal College of Physicians|access-date= 24 November 2015|archive-date= 22 October 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151022194633/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4257|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Glenny, Alexander Thomas (1882–1965), immunologist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-33424 |date=2004 |access-date=16 June 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33424|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Campbell-Kelly |first1=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihRREAAAQBAJ&dq=Percy+Stocks&pg=PA228 |title=The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets |last2=Croarken |first2=Mary |last3=Flood |first3=Raymond |last4=Robson |first4=Eleanor |author-link=Martin Campbell-Kelly |author-link2=Mary Croarken |author-link3=Raymond Flood (mathematician) |author-link4=Eleanor Robson |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-154521-4 |language=en}}</ref> || |- |14||1962||Leonard Colebrook (1883–1967) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} || Presented in October 1962 by Lord Adrian<ref Name="PRSM1962" /><ref>{{cite journal |author=Dunn PM |title=Dr Leonard Colebrook, FRS (1883–1967) and the chemotherapeutic conquest of puerperal infection |journal=Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. |volume=93 |issue=3 |pages=F246–8 |date=May 2008 |pmid=18426926 |doi=10.1136/adc.2006.104448 }}</ref> ||150px |- |15||1965 || Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || <ref name=SN1981>{{cite journal |title=Section News |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=October 1981 |volume=74 |issue=10 |pages=785–786 |pmc=1439235 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Royal Society of Medicine News |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=July 1965 |volume=58 |issue=7 |pages=559–560 |doi=10.1177/003591576505800736 |pmc=1898620 |issn=0035-9157}}</ref>||150px |- |16||1975 ||Sir Graham Wilson (1895–1987) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || Worked on the quality of pasteurization of milk, co-authored a major textbook on bacteriology, and established the Public Health Laboratory Service.<ref name=SN1981/><ref name=Anderson1988>{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=E. S. |last2=Williams |first2=Robert |title=Graham Selby Wilson. 10 September 1895 – 5 April 1987 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=1988 |volume=34 |pages=889–919 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1988.0027 |doi-access=free |jstor=770070 |pmid=11616119 |issn=0080-4606}}</ref> ||150px |- |17||1979||Alexander D Langmuir (1910–1993) ||{{flagu|United States}} || Awarded on 14 May 1979.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Association News |volume=8 |issue=3|page=293 |journal=International Journal of Epidemiology|doi=10.1093/ije/8.3.293|year=1979|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Oakley CL|title= Leonard Colebrook. 1883–1967 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=17|year=1971|pages=91–138|pmid=11615432|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1971.0004|doi-access=free}}</ref> ||150px |- |18||1981 ||Richard Doll (1912–2005) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||Studies on the epidemiology of cancer<ref name=Hunting2002/>

Presented by Walter W. Holland on 9 July 1979.<ref name=SN1981/> ||150px |- |19||1984 ||Karel Raška (1909–1987) ||{{flagu|Czech Republic}} ||He worked towards worldwide eradication of smallpox.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Cent Eur J Public Health|year=2007|volume=15|issue=3|page=127|url=http://www1.szu.cz/svi/cejph/archiv/2007-3-08.pdf|title=20th Death-day of a Prominent Czech Epidemiologist Karel Raška, MD, DrSc|author=Editorial Board|archive-date=18 July 2011|access-date=18 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718184452/http://www1.szu.cz/svi/cejph/archiv/2007-3-08.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Presented by J. P. Crowdy<ref>{{cite journal |title=Society news |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=April 1985 |volume=78 |issue=4 |pages=344–346 |pmc=1289691 |issn=0141-0768}}</ref> ||150px |- |20||1987 || J. N. Morris (1910–2009)||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || <ref>{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | year = 1987 | title = News and Notes | pmc = 1248122 | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 295 | issue = 6605| pages = 1069–71 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1069}}</ref>|| |- |21||1991 ||Spence Galbraith (1927–2008) || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||Founded the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Quarterly Communicable Disease Review January to March 1991: From the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre |volume=13 |issue=3|page=219 |journal=Journal of Public Health|year=1991|author=Galbraith, N. S.|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a042622 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nicol Spence Galbraith {{!}} RCP Museum |url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/nicol-spence-galbraith |website=history.rcplondon.ac.uk |access-date=20 June 2024}}</ref> || |- | ||1993|| Donald Acheson (1926–2010)|| {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||<ref name=RSMepidem/> || |- | ||1996 ||Donald Henderson (1928–2016) ||{{flagu|United States}} ||Work towards worldwide eradication of smallpox.<ref name=Hunting2002/><ref>{{cite book| title=Considerations for Viral Disease Eradication:: Lessons Learned and Future |first = Institute of|last = Medicine|page =206}}</ref> ||150px |- | || 2001||Dame Rosemary Rue (1928–2004) ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || First woman president of the Faculty of Community Medicine (now the Faculty of Public Health) and pioneer of women in medicine<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Richmond | first1=C. | pmc = 545005 | page=199 | volume=330 | issue=7484 | journal=BMJ | title=Dame Rosemary Rue | year=2005 | doi=10.1136/bmj.330.7484.199 }}</ref> || |- | ||2005|| || || || |- | || 2010||Michael G. Marmot (b. 1945)|| {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael G. Marmot |url=https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/about-us/about-professor-sir-michael-marmot |publisher=Institute of health Equity |access-date=12 June 2024}}</ref> ||150px |}

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