Abstract

2017 Bailey K. Ashford, Donald Mackay, and Walter Reed Medal Recipients.

Highlights

  • Her research objectives are the epidemiology and impact of enteric infections on child health, which continue to be among the principal causes of illness and death in children living in poverty; the improvement of disease burden estimates in child health and a more balanced approach to research priority setting that is directed toward disease burden reduction; and malaria epidemiology, the impact of economic influences and land use patterns on malaria in the Peruvian Amazon

  • “She captures the spirit of the Ashford medal,” Eric Houpt, MD, FASTMH, wrote in his letter nominating Dr Kosek

  • Dr Kosek is on the advisory panel of Brighton Collaboration as a member of the diarrhea working group to establish definition and severity scale of diarrhea as an adverse effect of vaccine administration

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Summary

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) honors select individuals with medals recognizing exceptional contributions in tropical medicine and global health. “Bailey Ashford spent most of his professional career in Puerto Rico, and Margaret Kosek has spent most of hers in Peru She combines that dedication to the field with state-ofthe-art biomolecular research to better understand and solve the huge health challenges faced by children and families in impoverished areas in the tropics.”. Dr Kosek is on the advisory panel of Brighton Collaboration as a member of the diarrhea working group to establish definition and severity scale of diarrhea as an adverse effect of vaccine administration She is a reviewer for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Clinical Trial Planning and Implementation grants and a consultant for the Child Health & Nutrition Research Initiative, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project to develop an improved system for priority setting in research related to child health. She is a consultant for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study as a core member in Enteric Infectious Diseases core group

DONALD MACKAY MEDAL
WALTER REED MEDAL
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
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