Distinguished Community Service Awards
From 2000-2005, FIGO, in collaboration with – and with the generous support of – the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program of The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, made a series of annual awards designed to recognise obstetricians or other health providers who have performed outstandingly in providing emergency obstetric care in their community.
Award winners were selected by an independent committee. The awards were aimed at enhancing the prestige of safe motherhood work amongst obstetricians, gynaecologists and other health care workers. The aim was to honour individuals actually providing emergency obstetric care in an underserved population, particularly rural areas, or directly administering facilities providing such services. The awards were not meant for high-level administrators or policymakers.
The awards included:
a) a grant of US$5,000 to the institution of the award winner; and
b) a grant of up to US$2,500 to the award winner's local Ob/Gyn society to arrange a social event for the recognition of the award at which the award winner was expected to deliver a lecture on his or her work.
Awards were made to:
- Dr Muhsin Al Sabbak - Iraq (2004)
- Dr Massod Aziz – Pakistan (2003)
- Dr Asha Bhatt & Dr Prakash Bhatt - India (2001)
- Professor Abdul Bayes Bhuiyan - Bangladesh (2004)
- Mr Jose Antonio Caetano Dias - Mozambique (2002)
- Dr Oswaldo Cárdenas – Ecuador (2003)
- Dr Blami Dao - Burkina Faso (2004)
- Dr Jean Chamberlain - Canada/Uganda (2005)
- Dr Shakuntala Chhabra - India (2005)
- Dr Nhuche Man Singh Dangol - Nepal
- Dr Hugo Rodríguez Ferrucci - Peru (2000)
- Dr Nestor E Garibaldo - Panama (2005)
- Dr Moawia E Hummeida - Sudan (2005)
- Dr Ravindran Jegasothy - Malaysia (2001)
- Dr Grace Kodindo - Chad (2000)
- Dr Vladimir Manzhai – Russia (2003)
- Dr Alex Mathews - Malaysia (2000)
- Dr Ashokananda Mishra - Nepal (2005)
- Dr Godfrey Mbaruku – Tanzania (2003)
- Dr Keith McCallum - Australia (2000)
- Dr Hamish McGlashan - Australia (2001)
- Dato Dr Sivalingam Nalliah - Malaysia (2002)
- Dr Etienne Bek Odimba - Mauritania (2001)
- Dr Christopher Okojie - Nigeria (2001)
- Dr Lilith Poghossian - Armenia (2001)
- Dr Krishna Kumar Rai - Nepal (2002)
- Dr Jorge Rodríguez – Peru (2004)
- Dr Mohan Sali - India (2003)
- Dr Renu Srismith - Thailand (2004)
- Dr Shershah Syed - Pakistan (2002)
- Dr Ahmed Bayoumi Shokry - Egypt (2000)
- Dr Horacio Velazquez - Uruguay (2002)
- Dr Inga Vevere - Latvia (2002)
- Dr Nara Vudhikamraksa - Thailand (2000)
- Sister Ann Ward - Nigeria (2004)
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