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Memorial Project to Honor the late Dr Lee Jong-Wook

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Memorial Project to Honor the late Dr Lee Jong-Wook

  • Dr. LEE Jong-wook was the first Korean to lead an international organization (World Health Organization) and devoted his all life to improving the global health.
  • Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Project is a commemorative project to honor the legacy of Dr. Lee who said, “We must do the right things in the right places in the right way.”
Milestones
Period / Year Description
2009 ~ Present Presenting the Dr. LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health (annually)
2009 ~ 2019 Conducting the Dr. LEE Jong-wook Global Young Frontier Program to support promising global leaders in the healthcare sector (annually)
2009 ~ Present Opening and operating the memorial archive of Dr. LEE Jong-wook
2025

Producing a Tribute Video for the 20th Anniversary of Dr. Lee Jong-wook’s Passing

Watching Video
2021 Publishing of the new Dr. LEE Jong-wook biography
2019 Organized Dr. LEE Jong-wook commemorative events (seminar, concert, lecture, etc.)
2014 Held an essay contest to celebrate the publication of Dr. LEE Jong-wook’s biography
2013 The WHO publishes Dr. LEE Jong-wook’s biography (Korean edition)
2012 The WHO supports the publishing of Dr. LEE Jong-wook’s biography (English edition)
Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health
Award Awarded during the World Health Assembly once a year
Eligibility
  • Awarded to a person or persons, an institution or institutions, a governmental or nongovernmental organization or organizations, who have made an outstanding contribution to public health
    ※ The Prize aims at rewarding work that has extended far beyond the call of normal duties, and it is not intended as a reward for excellent performance of duties normally expected of an official occupying a government position or of a governmental or intergovernmental institution.
Eligible Recommender
  • Any health ministry of the WHO Member States
  • Any former recipient of the Prize
    ※ Former/current WHO employees and Executive Board members are excluded from the nomination list
Selection
  • Chairperson of the Executive Board
  • A member elected by the Executive Board among its members
  • A representative of KOFIH
Related Site https://apps.who.int/gb/awards/e/Lee.html
1st (2009) Georgia Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center
2nd (2010) Singapore Action for Aids (AfA)
3rd (2011) Costa Rica Clodomiro Picado Institute
4th (2012) Based in New Zealand Pacific Leprosy Foundation
5th (2013) China Dr An Dong (Deputy Director, Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Maldives Diabetes Society of Maldives
6th (2014) Cameroon Professor Sinata Koulla-Shiro (Secretary–General of the Cameroon Ministry of Health)
Czech Republic Czech Society of Cardiology
7th (2015) Cyprus Thalassemia International Federation
8th (2016) Islamic Republic of Iran Dr Alireza Mesdaghinia (Institute for Environmental Research / School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences)
9th (2017) Cuba The Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade
10th (2018) Malaysia Dr Nazni Wasi Ahmad (senior researcher, Entomology Unit, Kuala Lumpur Institute for Medical Research)
India Professor Balram Bhargava (Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare)
11th (2019) Myanmar The Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Public Health
12th (2020) Brazil Dr João Aprigio Guerra de Almeida (Brazilian Network of Human Milk Banks)
United Republic of Tanzania The Sickle Cell Disease Consortium
13th (2021) Ukraine The State Institution, “The National Research Center for Radiation Medicine of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”
14th (2022) Thailand Dr Prakit Vathesatogkit (tobacco control advocate)
Poland Severe Hypothermia Treatment Centre
15th (2023) Guatemala Dr Jorge Francisco Meneses
(See his work)
16th (2024) Oman Dr Bader Saif Al-Rawahi
(See his work)