A research team from the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) has been conferred the Dr Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health.

Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement today said that the achievement was announced by the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) today.

The award was presented by the President of the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) during a plenary meeting at the Palais des Nations, Geneva.

The team comprised Dr Nazni Wasi Ahmad, Dr Lee Han Lim, Teh Chien Huey and Suhana Othman of the IMR Medical Entomology Unit, and Dr Harikrishna K Ragavan of Wound Care Unit, Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

“It is a great honour and pleasure for the biomedical researchers from the IMR to have received the conferment of such a superlative award for unprecedented scientific achievement in Malaysia,” he said. 

The Dr Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health was established in 2008, and aims at rewarding work that has extended far beyond the call of normal duties and to those who have made an outstanding and significant contribution to public health.

- Bernama