CLEVELAND — Case Western Reserve University has announced that Dr. Anthony Fauci will be visiting Cleveland in 2024.
Dr. Fauci will be awarded the 2024 Inamori Ethics Prize by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence on Sept. 19, 2024.
During his visit to Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Fauci will deliver a free public lecture about his work and participate in an academic symposium panel discussion.
"We are incredibly proud to recognize Dr. Fauci with the Inamori Ethics Prize and shine a bright light on the impact his ethical leadership has made to science and to humanity,” said Joy K. Ward, Case Western Reserve interim provost and executive vice president.
The Inamori Ethics Prize has been awarded since 2008 to outstanding international ethical leaders "whose actions and influence have greatly improved the condition of humankind."
Dr. Fauci became the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and advised every United States President until his retirement in 2022. During his time as director, Dr. Fauci led research for diseases including HIV/AIDS, SARS, swine flu, MERS, Ebola, tuberculosis, malaria, Zika and COVID-19.
“Dr. Fauci has cared not only for the nation’s health, but also the health of the world,” said Case Western Reserve President Eric W. Kaler. “As a scientist, research leader and public health advisor, his contributions to scientific discovery have truly improved lives. His leadership through one of the most challenging times in history—the COVID-19 pandemic—serves as a model for us all.”
Dr. Fauci was also at the forefront of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing a large research portfolio of basic, translational and clinical research and advising the federal government on best public health practices to slow the spread of the virus.
“Despite immense pressure, unfounded challenges to his expertise, personal attacks and even death threats, Dr. Fauci never wavered in his insistence that policy must follow the science, because he understood lives were at stake,” said Shannon E. French, Inamori Professor in Ethics and director of the Inamori Center.
Previous recipients of the Inamori Ethics Prize include Ukrainian journalist Myroslava Gongadze, actor and advocate LeVar Burton and Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland.
