Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2021, 6(2), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020072 - 7 May 2021
John M Goldsmid Award
We would like to express our gratitude to all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluations of the many outstanding articles.
The Award Committee is composed of the following Members:
- John Frean (Chairman of the Award Committee).
- Vyacheslav Yurchenko (Award Committee Member).
- John McBride (Award Committee Member).
Additionally, we acknowledge the ACTM Research Committee, consisting of those below:
- Luis Furuya-Kanamori (Chair).
- Beatris Martin.
- Christopher Chew.
- Cora Mayer.
- Emma McBryde.
- Helen Mayfield.
- Ian Gassiep.
- Leon Richards.
- Natkunam Ketheesan.
- Richard Bradbury.
- Suzy Ossipow.
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (TropicalMed) John M Goldsmid Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose 3 articles of exceptional quality that were published in TropicalMed the two years before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.
The Prizes:
– One review article award: CHF 300 and a chance to publish a free paper in TropicalMed before 31 December 2025;
– One research article award: CHF 300 and a chance to publish a free paper in TropicalMed before 31 December 2025;
– One outstanding article award: CHF 200;
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate.
TropicalMed John M Goldsmid Award
Eligibility for the Award
– All papers published in TropicalMed will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
Selection Criteria
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Elevated Pediatric Chagas Disease Burden Complicated by Concomitant Intestinal Parasites and Malnutrition in El Salvador
Evolution of Rabies in South America and Inter-Species Dynamics (2009–2018)
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2021, 6(2), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020098 - 9 Jun 2021
Schistosomiasis with a Focus on Africa
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2021, 6(3), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6030109 - 22 Jun 2021
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. John Frean
Chairman
National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service
Prof. John McBride
James Cook University
Dr. Vyacheslav Yurchenko
Dr. Luis Furuya-Kanamori
UQ Centre for Clinical Research
Winner
Darren Gray
Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, ANU College of Health and Medicine, 62 Mills Rd, The Australian National University, Australia
Carolina Borsoi Moraes
Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-900, SP, Brazil
Peter Collignon
Infectious Diseases Unit and Microbiology Dept., The Canberra Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Australian National University, P.O. Box 11, Woden, ACT, 2607 Australia
Winner
Mark A. Deka
Department of Geography, Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. John Frean
Chairman
National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service
Ms. Chloe Li
MDPI
