The Littlejohn Gairdner Prize
Foundation
The Littlejohn Gairdner Prize was instituted by Dorothy Hedderwick to commemorate the centenary of the appointment of her father, Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn, as Medical Officer for Edinburgh and his friend, Sir William Tennant Gairdner, as Medical Officer of Health for Glasgow.
Funding/Purpose
The Littlejohn Gairdner Prize Fund and/or its proceeds shall be used to offer a cash prize and a medal for annual competition by candidates enrolled with FPH in higher specialist training programmes in Scotland. Administration of the Littlejohn Gairdner Prize Fund shall be the responsibility of the Committee of the Faculty of Public Health.
Eligibility
The prize should be awarded to a candidate who is undertaking general public health training and showing considerable potential in making a contribution to public health in Scotland.
Eligibility for the competition will be restricted to those enrolled with FPH in higher specialist training programmes in Scotland; this includes Specialist Registrars and Specialist Trainees.
Candidates must have passed Part A of the FPH examination scheme. The piece of work from which submission arises should be conducted during training. The time period for submission for the award should be during training or within six months after completing training.
Candidates would be allowed one attempt only at submission for the Littlejohn Gairdner Prize.
Value
£100 agreed in 2005.
Application
Applications are to comprise of a written submission, either as a single piece of work or as number of linked pieces together forming a theme. The maximum length is 5,000 words and could consist of, for example, a Board-level paper, a needs assessment, a published paper, or a report on a specific topic. The submission requires a high level of personal involvement by the candidate. A signed statement from the candidate's trainer, who should be a member of FPH, should evidence this.
Statement from candidate's trainer [word]
Frequency of award
Annually, funds permitting.
Closing date
The closing date for submissions is 1 September each year.
Adjudication
The prize and medal will be awarded on the recommendation of the Adjudication Panel, subject to confirmation by the Committee of the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland.
The Adjudication Panel will be appointed by the Committee of the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland and will consist of a minimum of three members representing academic, service and non-medical public health.
Criteria for award
The award will be based on work that develops the concepts, policy, strategy or action of Public Health and shows originality, rigour and benefits to health. An award with distinction may be made for work that is of particular importance and quality at the discretion of the Adjudication Panel.
The award may be withheld at the discretion of the Adjudication Panel in the absence of applications of sufficient merit.
Presentation
Awards of the medal and prize money shall be made on the occasion of the Annual Faculty of Public Health Scottish Conference. Awards shall not be made in absentia, save at the discretion of the Committee of the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland.
Recipients shall be required, as a condition of the award, to deliver an address to be known as the Littlejohn Gairdner Memorial Lecture based on an aspect of the prize-winning work to the Annual Faculty of Public Health Scottish Conference.
Submissions marked ‘Littlejohn Gairdner Prize Submission' should be made both in paper and electronic format to:
Education & Training Department
Faculty of Public Health
4 St Andrew's Place
London
NW1 4LB
Please contact the Education and Training Department on 020 7224 0642 or by email on .
