Acta gold medal and honorary lecture

The first BMA Gold Medal.

The Sir David Cuthbertson Medal Lecture 1991

Poiseuille Gold Medal Award ceremony. Presentation address.

Mr. Chairman, Members of our Society and of this Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a great privilege and gives me pleasure as the last recipient of the Poiseuille Gold Medal Award to give you a brief account of the scientific activities and contributions of the person whom The International Society of Biorheology has chosen to honor at this our Congress at The Weizmann Institute of Science h...

Gold Medal for Finnish Health in All Policies Book

This article is a review of the book “Health in All Policies: Seizing opportunities, implementing policies” edited by Kimmo Leppo, Eeva Ollila, Sebastián Peña, Matthias Wismar, and Sarah Cook. This book (printed and online publication) was published by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland in 2013 (1). The book is freely available at http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pd...

Sustainability and Interoperability: Two Facets of the Same Gold Medal

'To sustain is to endure' that is, to be able to survive and continue to function in the face of significant changes. The commonly accepted concept of 'sustainability' currently encompasses three main pillars: environmental, social/ethical and economic. In a metaphor of survival, they can be seen as water, food and air; one needs all three, only with varying degrees of urgency. In today's globa...