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Home / Awards

Awards

2025

12th Annual Chanchlani Global Health Research Award

- Chanchlani Research Centre and Mary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine

SAMRC Platinum Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award

- South African Medical Research Council

SAMRC Bronze Award

- South African Medical Research Council

2024

Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

- Lasker Foundation

Royal Society’s Coveted Michael Faraday Prize

- The Royal Society

2023

K L Institute Honorary Doctorate

- KL Institute, India

The EDCTP Outstanding Female Scientist Award

- The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

CBAS Fellowship

- The International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS)

Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

- Royal Society of South Africa

2022

The Fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in Medical Research

- The Government of Japan

University of McMaster Honorary Doctorate

- University of McMaster

University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson Mandela Medical School

- Medical School Legends of Medicine

Discovery Health Lifetime Leadership Award

- Discovery Health and the KwaZulu-Natal Doctors Healthcare Coalition

University of Rhodes Honorary Doctorate

- Rhodes University

VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators from Developing Countries

- VinFuture Foundation in Vietnam

Honorary Fellowship Mangosuthu University of Technology

- Mangosuthu University of Technology

2021

CPHIA Lifetime Achievement Award in Public Health

- First International Conference on Public Health in Africa hosted by the Africa CDC & the African Union

University of Rhodes Honorary Doctorate

- Rhodes University

University of South Africa Chancellor’s Calabash - Public Servant Award

- University of South Africa

John F.W. Herschel Medal

- Royal Society of South Africa

2020

John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science

- Sense about Science and Nature

500 years of the Straits of Magellan Award

- The Government of Chile

University of Stellenbosch Honorary Doctorate

- University of Stellenbosch

Christophe Mérieux Award

- The French Academy of Science

John Dirk Canada Gairdner Global Health Award

- Gairdner Foundation

2019

African Leadership Award

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Royal Society Fellowship

- The Royal Society

2018

Ward Cates Spirit Award

- HPTN

Al Sumait Prize

- Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science

Silver Medal for Scientific Achievement

- South African Medical Research Council

2017

Lifetime Achievement Awards

- Institute for Human Virology (IHV)

Legends of South African Science

- Academy of Science of South Africa

2016

L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award

- L’Oréal Foundation and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

2015

African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Scientific Award

- African Union

Platinum Lifetime Achievement Award

- South African Medical Research Council

2014

Order of Mapungubwe

- Presidency of the Republic of South Africa

Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award

- African Union

Annual Service Excellence Award

- KwaZulu-Natal Health

Mayor's Award for Excellence

- eThekwini Municipality

Lifetime Achievement Award

- HIV Congress 2014

Science- for- Society Gold Medal

- Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), TWAS Lenovo Science Prize in Biological Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

Gold Medal Scientific Achievement Award

- South African Medical Research Council (MRC)

2013

John F. W. Herschel Medal

- Royal Society of South Africa

The Union Scientific Prize

- International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

2012

TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences

- The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

N’Galy-Mann Award

- Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

Minara Academic Excellence Award

- Minara Chamber of Commerce

2011

Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence

- Columbia University Alumnus Association

President's Award

- Drug Information Association

BHP Billiton Award for "Research leading to Innovation"

- South African National Science & Technology Forum (NSTF)

Distinguished Woman in Science Award in the Life, Natural and Engineering Sciences

- South African government Department of Science and Technology

Medicine Award - Fellowship in Art & Science of Medicine (Gold)

- South African Medical Association

Outstanding Senior African Scientist Award

- European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnerships

Chancellor's Callabash Award for Outstanding Educator

- University of South Africa (UNISA)

Inaugural Olusegun Obasanjo Prize for Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation

- African Academy of Sciences

Science-for-Society Gold Medal Award

- Academy of Science in South Africa (ASSAf)

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