Cecil Award

Each year, the NAM presents three Cecil Awards, recognizing and celebrating current and/or recent staff whose sustained service has contributed importantly to progress toward the NAM Mission – to improve health for all by advancing science, accelerating health equity, and providing independent, authoritative, and trusted advice nationally and globally. Each Award is accompanied by $4,000, a commemorative medal and certificate presented by the NAM President. All current and former staff members with five or more years of service are eligible for these distinguished staff awards. The 2021 Cecil Awards were presented during the NAM’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, October 16-18, 2021.

2021 Recipients:

Sandra H. Matthews Cecil Award for Administrative Excellence:

Stacey Smit
Program Coordinator
Division of Behavioral and Social Science and Education

Cecil Award for Individual Excellence:

Katie Bowman
Senior Program Officer
Health and Medicine Division

Cecil Award for Excellence of a Group/Team:

Lisa Brown, Ben Kahn, Rebecca Chevat, Emma Fine, Aurelia Attal-Juncqua, Andy Pope, Rose Marie Martinez, Elizabeth Finkelman, Laura DeStefano
Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine
Health and Medicine Division, National Academy of Medicine

Special Cecil Award:

Clyde Behney
Inaugural Executive Director
Health and Medicine Division