Recognition matters: only one in ten awards given to women in The Lancet

Receiving an award is an accolade. Awards validate and bring visibility, help attract funding, hasten career advancement, and can consolidate career accomplishments. Yet, in the fields of public health and medicine, few women receive them. Between seven public health and medicine awards from diverse countries, the chances of a woman receiving a prize was nine out of 100 since their inception.

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore,
MD 21205, USA (RM); Women in Global Health,
Washington, DC, USA (RD); Health Systems and
Research Ethics Department, KEMRI–Wellcome Trust
Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya (KM);
UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland (KB); and School of
Public Health, University of the Western Cape,
Bellville, South Africa (ASG)