The Walter Reed Medal may refer to the

Congressional Gold Medal The Congressional Gold Medal is the oldest and highest civilian award in the United States, alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is bestowed by vote of the United States Congress, signed into law by the president. The Gold Medal exp ...

awarded to Major Walter Reed in 1929, or a medal currently awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. ----The Walter Reed Medal was established by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1934 to be awarded periodically in recognition of meritorious achievement in tropical medicine by an individual or an institution. The story of how Walter Reed led the Yellow Fever Commission in Havana that discovered the mosquito vector of the disease is legendary. The first medals were awarded in 1936, one medal was awarded to Mrs. Emilie Lawrence Reed to posthumously honor her husband Major Walter Reed for his work on Yellow Fever, and another to

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for its study and control of Yellow Fever. Starting in 2021, the Walter Reed Medal was awarded annually. It is of interest that in 1942 in a spirit of ecumenism, the award was made posthumously to Carlos J. Finlay - a Cuban contemporary of Walter Reed - to whom many credit the original idea that Yellow Fever was a mosquito-borne disease.

Awardees

* 2024 - Stephen L. Hoffman * 2023 - Charles H. Calisher * 2022 - William A. Petri, Jr. * 2021 - Dyann Wirth * 2020 - Myron “Mike” Levine * 2017 - Scott Halstead * 2015 - Alan J. Magill * 2014 - Scott C. Weaver * 2011 - Louis Miller * 2008 - Richard L. Guerrant * 2005 - Karl Johnson * 2002 - Thomas P. Monath * 1999 - Philip Russell * 1996 - Thomas Weller * 1993 - Donald Henderson and George Craig, Jr. and

Robert Shope Robert Ellis Shope (February 21, 1929 – January 19, 2004) was an American virologist, epidemiologist and public health expert, particularly known for his work on arthropod-borne viruses and emerging infectious diseases. He discovered more n ...

* 1990 - Paul Beaver and Will Burgdorfer * 1987 - William Reeves * 1984 - Wilbur Downs * 1981 - Harry Most * 1978 - Harry Hoogstraal * 1975 - Robert Briggs Watson * 1972 - Fred Soper * 1969 - Albert Sabin * 1966 - Henry Meleney * 1963 - Ernest Carroll Faust * 1962 - William Cort * 1960 - Sir Gordon Covell * 1958 - Willard Wright * 1956 - Karl Meyer * 1953 - Lewis Hackett * 1950 - Rolla Dyer * 1948 - Nicolaas Swellengrebel * 1946 - Paul Russell * 1944 - James Simmons * 1942 -

Carlos Finlay Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes ''Aedes aegypti''. Biography Early life and ...

* 1940 - Herbert Clark * 1939 - William Castle * 1936 - Mrs. Walter Reed and

Associated Awards

Of note, in conjunction with Walter Reed's receipt of the Congressional Gold Medal, the United States Congress established the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor on February 28, 1929 (Public Law 70-858, 45 Stat. 1409) to each of the persons listed below, "in special recognition of the high public service rendered and disabilities contracted in the interest of humanity and science as voluntary subjects for the experimentations during the yellow-fever investigations in Cuba" * Aristides Agramonte * James A. Andrus * John R. Bullard * James Carroll * Doctor R. P. Cooke * A. W. Covington * William H. Dean * Thomas M. England * Levi E. Folk * Wallace W. Forbes * Paul Hamann * James L. Hanberry * James Hildebrand * Warren G. Jernegan * John R. Kissinger * Jesse W. Lazear * John J. Moran * William Olsen * Walter Reed * Charles G. Sonntag * Edward Weatherwalks * Clyde L. West On July 2, 1956, Congress passed a law (70 Stat. 484) to include Gustaf E. Lambert on the list. On September 2, 1958, Congress passed a law (72 Stat. 1702) to include Roger P. Ames on the list.

References

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External links

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Walter Reed Medal
Civil awards and decorations of the United States