Prize and fellowship winners
Alwyn Smith Prize
This prize is endowed by Professor Alwyn Smith on his retirement as President of the Faculty in 1986. A medal and certificate are normally awarded annually to the member or fellow of the Faculty, judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the health of the public by either research or practice in community medicine (public health medicine).
The prize is awarded at the discretion of the current Faculty President.
Prize winners
1988 Dr Nicol Spence Galbraith FFCM
1989 Dr Deirdre Gillian Cunningham FFPH
1990 Sir Donald Acheson FFCM
1991 Professor Andrew Gerald Shaper FFCM
1992 Dr John Francis McKenna FFCM
1993 Professor Basil Stuart Hetzel FFCM
1994 Professor Walter Holland FFPH
1995 Dr Michael Ashley-Miller FFPH
1996 Professor Jeremy Noah Morris FFCM
1997 Dame Deirdre Hine FFPH
1998 Sir Kenneth Calman FFPH
1999 Dr Jane Crooks Wilde FFCM
2000 Professor Emeritus Gareth Crompton
2001 Professor Christopher Leslie Bartlett FFPH
2002 Professor John Richard Ashton FFPH
2003 Dr Jenny Wright FFPH & Dr Lillian Somervaille
FFPH
2004 Professor Sir Michael Marmot FFPH
2005 Mr Jamie Oliver
2006 Dr Alexander Gatherer FFPH
2007 Ms Deborah Arnott
BACP Travelling Fellowship
Established in 1994, using funds donated by the British Association of Community Physicians on its dissolution, a fellowship is normally awarded biennially to assist members of the Faculty in training to undertake educational travel, normally outside the United Kingdom.
Fellowship winners
1994 Dr Penelope Jane Newman MFPH
1998 Dr Carolyn Valerie Harper MFPH
2000 Award not made
2002 Dr Francesca Alasdair Reid DFPH
2003 Award not made
2004 Mr Mark Kroese MFPHM
2005 Award not made
2006 Award not made
Wilfrid Harding Faculty Prize
Established by Dr Wilfrid and Mrs Hilary Harding in 1990, a certificate and cheque are normally awarded biennially to a member judged to have made the most outstanding effort and achievement on behalf of the Faculty.
Prize winners
1991 Dr Helen Elizabeth Zealley FFPH
1993 Dr George D Forwell FFCM
1995 Professor Rhys Williams FFPH
1998 Dr Jean Mary Weddell FFCM
1999 Dr John Armstrong Muir Gray FFPH
2001 Dr Ian Alfred Baker FFPH
2003 Dr Edmund Jessop FFPH & Dr Alan Maryon-Davis
FFPH
2005 Professor Stephen Frankel FFPH
2007 Dr Catherine Law FFPH
Cochrane Prize
In honour of the first President of the Faculty, the late Professor
Archie Cochrane, a medal and cheque are normally awarded each year to
an undergraduate student to support an educational activity in the field
of public health medicine.
Prize winners
1991 Christopher Whitty & Robert Jones
1993 Nnenna Osuji
1994 Harriet Stuart
1998 Catherine Snaith
1999 Fook Chang Lam
2001 Vivian Chen
2002 Beverley Jesbet Cheserem
2003 Louise Morganstein
2004 David Wood FFPH
2005 Rebecca Hope
2006 Rishi Caleyachetty
2007 Rahul Potluri
Sir John Brotherston Prize
Named in honour of the late Sir John Brotherston, past President of
the Faculty, a prize is normally awarded annually for the best essay or
research on a public health topic written by a student of medicine or
young graduate prior to full registration.
Prize Winners
1992 Rebecca Neame
1993 Fiona Lindsay
1994 Jayson Wang
1995 Merlin Wilcox
1996 Simon Read
1999 Jonathan Cohen
2000 Helen Nabwera
2001 Ali Poostchi
2002 Joanne Ratter
2003 Anushka Soni
2004 Felix Greaves
2005 Dr Tasanee Smith
2006 Dr Claudia Newbegin
2007 Award not made
Michael O'Brien Prize
Established in 1996 by Michael O'Brien, past President of the Faculty, a medal and cheque are normally awarded annually for outstanding performance in the MFPH Part A examination.
Prize winners
1997 Dr Katherine Pearce
1998 Dr Barbara Hanratty
1999 Dr Peter Leman & Dr Veronika Reisig
2000 Dr Timothy Daniel
2001 Dr David Bruce Ogilvie
2002 Dr Peter John Heywood
2003 Dr Joanne Reeve
2004 Dr Helen Raison
2005 Ms Janice Yates
2006 Dr Elizabeth Bream
2007 Dr Kristina Routh
June and Sidney Crown Award
Dr June Crown, immediate past President of the Faculty, and her husband, Dr Sidney Crown, endowed an annual award starting in 1999 whose purpose is to assist young members of the Faculty (particularly those working within the National Health Service) to gain experience or further training outside the United Kingdom.
Prize Winners
1999 Dr Margaret Douglas
2001 Dr Sarah Anderson
2002 Award not made
The McEwen Award
The prize is awarded for the best performance in the Part B MFPH examination
of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians
of the United Kingdom.
All candidates who have passed the whole of the Part B MFPH Examination
(UK) at sittings held in the 12 months preceding the last Education
Committee meeting before the Faculty's Annual General Meeting will be
eligible for consideration.
Eligibility for the competition will be restricted to those recognised
as Specialist Registrar/Specialist Trainee Members in PHM/PH on the
date of the submission of Part B of the Examination for Membership
of the FPH.
Prize winners
2003 Dr Karen Lock MFPH
2004 Dr Christopher McGuigan MFPH
2005 Dr Andrew Furber MFPH
2006 Dr Helen Walters MFPH
2007 Mr Paul Scott MFPH
Littlejohn Gairdner Prize
This prize was instituted by Dorothy Hedderwick to commemorate the
centenary of the appointment of her father, Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn,
as Medical Officer for the City of Edinburgh, and of his friend, Sir
William Tennant Gairdner, as Medical Officer of Health for the City
of Glasgow.
A medal and cheque are normally awarded annually to a specialist registrar
Member in Scotland who passes their Part B MFPH for the first time, with
no amendments or resubmissions, on the recommendation of an adjudication
committee.
Prize winners since 1973
1973/74 Dr H Livingstone & Dr H Snook
1978 Dr Owen Llewelyn Lloyd
1979 Dr Nicholas Godfrey Armand Smith
1980 Dr Francis Gerald Reid Fowkes
1982 Dr William Cairns Stewart Smith
1984 Dr Robin Peter Knill Jones
1985 Dr Thomas Acheson Harden Carter
1986 Dr Farsheid Namdaran
1987 Professor Rajinder Singh Bhopal
1988 Dr Adam Bryson
1989 Dr Eric Paul Baijal
1990 Dr PhilipYong Kee Teo
1991 Award carried over to 1992
1992 Dr Michael Robert Braddick
1993 Dr Henry James Gerard Burns
1994 Dr Harry Campbell
1995 Dr Kenneth Raymond Oates
1996 Dr Graham Foster
1997 Award carried over to 1998
1998 Dr M Douglas & Dr C Smith
1999 Award carried over to 2000
2000 Dr Helen Howie
2001 Dr Jane Knight
2002 Award carried over to 2003
2003 David Ogilvie
2004 Dr Neil Hamlet
2005 Dr Robert Henderson
2006 Dr Anne Scoular
BUPA Joint Fellowship
Established in 1994 and funded by BUPA, a fellowship is normally
awarded every three years to cover the cost of a three year research
project in public health medicine leading to a PhD.
Fellowship winner
1996 Dr Oliver Blatchford MFPH
2001 Dr Jean Adams
2006 Mr Rakesh Ghosh