LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway CBE is among seven eminent scientists being admitted to Honorary Fellowship by the by Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom this year.
Professor Hemingway received the award at a ceremony last night during the Faculty’s conference in Newcastle. She received her award alongside Professor Amanda Amos from the Centre for Population Health Services at the University of Edinburgh and Dr Michael Bannon, Professorial Fellow and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Wadham College, University of Oxford.
The Fellowship represents the highest accolade that the Faculty can bestow and is awarded to persons of eminence who have rendered exceptional services to the science, literature or practice of public health. Professor Hemingway said: “I am delighted to have been honoured in such a way by the Faculty of Public Health, and it has been wonderful to have been among such dedicated people during their conference. LSTM works tirelessly to reduce the burden of disease and improve the public health in some of the world’s poorest communities and it is rewarding that our work has been recognised in this way.”
Professor Hemingway has 30 years’ experience working on malaria and control of other insect-borne diseases. As well as leading LSTM in a critical period of expansion, she has also been principal investigator (PI) on projects well in excess of £60 million including the setting up of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC).
Professor Hemingway was: inaugurated as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2006; inaugurated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008; conferred as Honorary Doctor of Science by Sheffield University in 2009; elected as a Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Scientists, USA 2010; elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology 2011; inaugurated as a Fellow of The Royal Society 2011; and was conferred as Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Warwick in 2015. She was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the Control of Tropical Disease Vectors in 2012.