Prizes & Awards

Albert Wander Lecturer, Royal Society of Medicine, 1987

Froembling  Memorial Lecturer, Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa, Cape Western Province Branch, 1995.

Royal College of General Practitioners/ 1998 Boots Research Paper of the Year Award (for ‘Health Beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study’. British Medical Journal 1998: 316: 978-983.)

Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2004.

Career Achievement Award, American Anthropological Association, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2004. [More Details].

Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology, Royal Anthropological  Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 2005 [More Details]

David Rogers Colloquium on Health Policy Lecturer, Cornell Medical School, New York, USA, 2005

Cabot Lecturer, Division of Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, 2007

2007 Open Book Award for 'Suburban Shaman', UK Medical Journalists Association, 2007