George Macdonald (malariologist)

The George Macdonald Medal was first awarded in 1972 and every 3 years thereafter to recognise outstanding contributions to tropical hygiene.

He then entered the medical school of the University of Liverpool, graduated MB ChB in 1924 and, already attracted by a career in the tropics, took the DTM in the same year.

3 Malaria Field Laboratories in the Middle East and Central Mediterranean, with a final rank of Brigadier.

In 1954 he received the Darling Foundation Medal and prize from the World Health Assembly in Geneva for his studies on epidemiology and control of malaria.

[7] A systematic historical review suggests that several mathematicians and scientists contributed to development of the Ross-Macdonald model over a period of 70 years.

Macdonald continued working even after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 1966, submitting his last paper only two weeks before dying.