Elsevier Foundation Award

The OWSD - Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World[1] is awarded annually to early-career women scientists in selected developing countries in four regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Central and South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.[2]

2016 award winners

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), the Elsevier Foundation, and The World Academy of Sciences have partnered to recognize achievements of early-career women scientists in developing countries since the award was launched in 2011 as the Elsevier Foundation-OWSD Awards for Young Women Scientists from the Developing World.[3][2] The award program is open to female scientists who live and work in one of 81 developing countries.[2] Nominations are generally submitted within ten years of the nominee earning a PhD.[4][5]

The maximum number of recipients is currently restricted to five per year: one from each of the four OWSD-recognized regions, plus one additional outstanding candidate, and the awards are granted with a rotating theme annually among three general fields: biological sciences (agriculture, biology and medicine), engineering/innovation & technology, and physical sciences (including chemistry, mathematics and physics).[6][2]

As of 2014, the award includes an honorarium of US$5,000, one year of access to Elsevier's ScienceDirect publication database, and an expense-paid trip to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where an awarding ceremony is held.[4]

Recipients

Recipients have included:[4]

2011

The 2011 awards recognized eleven contributors to biology, physics, and chemistry.[7]

  • Mahfuza Begum, biologist, Bangladesh
  • Rukmani Mohanta, physicist, India
  • Farzana Shaheen, chemist, Pakistan
  • Janet Ayobami Adermola, physicist, Nigeria
  • Aderoju Amoke Osowole, chemist, Nigeria
  • Denise Evans, biologist, South Africa
  • Nahla Ismail, chemist, Egypt
  • Lubna Tahtamoouni, biologist, Jordan
  • María Magdalena González Sánchez, astrophysicist, Mexico
  • Lisset Hermida Cruz, biologist, Cuba
  • Silvina Pellegrinet, chemist, Argentina

2013

THe 2013 awards were focused on medical science and public health.[5]

  • Adediwura Fred-Jaiyesimi, pharmacologist, Nigeria
  • Nasima Akhter, medical scientist, Bangladesh
  • Dionicia Gamboa, molecular biologist, Peru
  • Namjil Erdenechimeg, biochemist, Mongolia
  • Huda Omer Basaleem, community health researcher, Yemen

2014

The 2014 awards were focused on chemistry.[8]

  • Nilufar Mamadalieva, bioorganic chemist, Uzbekistan
  • Leni Ritmaleni, pharmaceutical chemist, Indonesia
  • Simone Ann Marie Badal McCreath, biochemistry researcher, Jamaica
  • Eqbal Mohammed Abdu Dauqan, biotechnologist, Yemen
  • Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, pharmacologist, Nigeria

2015

In 2015, the awards were focused on physics and mathematics.[8]

  • Nashwa Eassa, nano-particle physicist, Sudan
  • Dang Thi Oanh, computational mathematician, Thailand
  • Mojisola Oluwyemisi Adeniyi, atmospheric physicist, Nigeria
  • Mojisola Usikalu, radiation physicist, Nigeria
  • Rabia Salihu Sa'id, environmental physicist, Nigeria

2016

The 2016 awards focused on medical science and public health.[9]

  • Sri Fatmawati, pharmacologist, Indonesia
  • Sushila Maharjan, biochemistry researcher, Nepal
  • Magaly Blas, public health specialist, Peru
  • Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu, psychiatric epidemiologist, Uganda
  • Ghanya Naji Mohammed Al-Naqeb, nutritional researcher, Yemen

2017

The 2017 awards were focused on engineering and technology.[10]

  • Tanzima Hashem, computer scientist, Bangladesh
  • María Fernanda Rivera Velásquez, environmentalist, Ecuador
  • Felycia Edi Soetaredjo, environmental energy specialist, Indonesia
  • Grace Ofori-Sarpong, environmental resource management, Ghana
  • Rania Mokhtar, scientific project coordinator, Sudan

2018

The 2018 awards focused on mathematics, chemistry, and physics.

  • Hasibun Naher, applied mathematician, Bangladesh
  • Germaine Djuidje Kenmoe, physicist, Cameroon
  • Silvia González Pérez, computational chemist, Ecuador
  • Dawn Iona Fox, environmental chemist, Guyana
  • Witri Wahyu Lestari, organometallic chemist, Indonesia

2019

The 2019 awards focused on medical science and public health.[2]

  • Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, ethnobotonist, Bolivia
  • Uduak Okomo, health services, Nigeria
  • Tabassum Mumtaz, environmental biotechnologist, Bangladesh
  • Amira Shaheen, public health researcher, Palestine
  • Tista Prasai Joshi, chemist, Nepal

References

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