（Purpose)
Article 1. The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine shall establish the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine Award to honor outstanding achievements in tropical medicine made by researchers belonging to the Society.
（Awardees）
Article 2. The award shall be given to researchers who have made outstanding achievements in basic or applied research in tropical medicine, whose contributions are recognized as significant, and who fulfil the following conditions.
2. have been a member of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine for at least five years at the time of nomination
3. be approximately 65 years of age or younger on 31 March of the year of selection.
(Selection Committee)
Article 3. A Selection Committee shall be established to select the recipients of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine Award.
2. The Selection Committee shall consist of all Board members.
3. The Selection Committee shall be chaired by the President.
4. The presence of at least 1/2 of the members of the Selection Committee is required for a meeting of the Selection Committee. A letter of proxy does not count as attendance.
(Selection)
Article 4. At the beginning of each year, the Selection Committee shall ask the Councilors to nominate candidates for the award and to prepare a record of their nominations. Members of the Selection Committee may also act as nominators.
2.The Selection Committee examines the nominated candidates and decides on the winner by secret ballot with a majority of the valid votes cast.
(Report)
Article 5. The chairperson shall report on the selection process and results to the Board of Directors and the Board of Councilors.
(Awarding of awards)
Article 6. The President shall present the awardee with a certificate and supplementary prize at the annual conference.
(Award lecture)
Article 7. The awardee shall present the content of the award-winning paper at the Congress of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine in the current year.
（Supplementary provisions)
Article 7. If any doubt arises concerning the interpretation and application of these Regulations, the Board of Directors shall decide.
2. In addition to the provisions of these rules, other necessary matters relating to the selection process shall be determined separately by the Board of Directors.
3. Amendments to these Rules and Regulations shall be approved by the Board of Councilors when deemed necessary by the Board of Directors.
Supplementary provisions.
- these Regulations, which were approved by the Board of Councilors and the General Assembly on 10 October 2003, shall come into force on 1 January 2004.
- Amendments to these Rules and Regulations were approved by the Board of Councilors on 21 October 2009 and by the Board of Councilors on 22 October 2009, and shall enter into force on 1 January 2010.
- the amendments to the Code were approved by the Board of Directors on 19 March 2020 and by the Board of Councilors on the same day, and shall enter into force on 19 March 2020
- revisions to these Rules were approved by the Board of Directors on 7 October 2022 and the Board of Councilors on 9 October 2022 and shall enter into force on 9 October 2022.
Matters of arrangement concerning the selection rules for the ‘Japanese Society for Tropical Medicine Award’ in accordance with Article 8.
- (Approved by the Board of Councilors on 9 October 2003)
- (Added by the Board of Directors on 25 April 2009)
- (Amended by the Board of Directors on 19 March 2020)
- the members of the selection committee may nominate additional candidates if there are no nominations from councilors. 2.
- the forms of the nomination and candidate statement shall be as in the Appendix (Form 1 and Form 2)
- in voting, a blank sheet of paper shall be treated as valid and any name other than that of a candidate shall be treated as invalid
- If no candidate receives a majority of the valid votes cast in a ballot of three or more candidates, a deciding vote shall be held for the top two candidates.
- in the event of a tie, the Chairman shall decide.
- if a member of the Selection Committee is a candidate, the member concerned may not participate in the deliberations and voting in the Selection Committee.
