Meet the 2024 Winner - Amsalu Bitew Workie MD
Amsalu Bitew Workie completed his undergraduate studies in medicine at Jimma University on the 6th of September 1997 and his residency in internal medicine at the Faculty of Medicine/AAU on 21st of March 2008. He did his fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at AAU & completed In March 3, 2023. He has been served at Tigray regional health institutes as a general practitioner, Internist, medical director & department head for about 17 years. He joined AAU/CHS since April 2020. He has published at least 2 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is currently doing researches on occupational lung disease.
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Margaret Becklake (May 27, 1922-October 17, 2018) grew up and studied medicine in South Africa, and, after postgraduate training in London, returned to her native country to work at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Miner’s Silicosis Bureau, where she studied the effects of dust inhalation on workers in the gold mines. In 1957 she moved to Montréal where worked at McGill University in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, the Montreal Chest Hospital, and the Royal Victoria Hospital. Her widely published research on occupational lung disease and both international and socioeconomic lung health disparities brought her international recognition. She received many awards including the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Thoracic Society. She started a research capacity building program that trained and nurtured young African investigators, a forerunner to the ATS MECOR Program, and she served on the MECOR faculty. Dr. Becklake was active in the EOPH assembly and was a mentor and role model to researchers and clinicians around the world.
The Margaret Becklake award will be given annually for the best EOPH abstract involving work done in low and/or middle-income countries or addressing international and/or socioeconomic health disparities. The awardee will be selected by the EOPH Program Committee Chair and Chair-Elect.
Past Recipients of the Margaret Becklake Award:
2020 - Karina Romero, MSc, MD
2019 - Kabamba Ngombe, PhD
