Kakamega, in Western Kenya. Dr. Were was the Director of CBHC in the period from 1976 through 1982. This project won the UNICEF Maurice Pate Award of 1978, the first time any African institution had won this award. She is the Current Chancellor at Moi University, Eldoret appointment on Thursday, 19 September 2013. In 2021 she took up the role of Community Engagement and Involvement lead in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Group. She is also a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Selected works 2002 – "Kakamega, Kenya: A Promising Start Derailed," in Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures, Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1985 – "Extended Family Involvement of Urban Professional Women" (with Harriette MacAdoo), in Women in Africa and the African Diaspora, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Andrea Benton Rushing, eds. Washington, D.C." Howard University Press. Honours Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear (EBS), 2005 – Kenya. Medal of the Italian Cabinet, 2006 – Italy. Queen Elizabeth II Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to International Public Health and Supporting the health needs of disadvantaged people, 2007 United Kingdom. Légion d'honneur, Chevalier, 2008 — France. Awarded first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize by the Japanese Government in the Medical Services category Distinguished Career Award, 2015 – William Penn University. Oskaloosa, IA. Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 2022. Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize The Japanese Government established the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in July 2006 as a new international medical research and services award. The first announcement of plans to create this prize was timed to mark the official visit to Africa by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in May 2006. The timing also marked the 80th anniversary of Dr. Noguchi's death. The Prize aims to honour individuals with outstanding achievements in combating various infectious diseases in Africa or in establishing innovative medical service systems. The inaugural presentation ceremony and the initial laureate lectures coincided with the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which was held in Yokohama in late-April 2008. This year's conference venue was moved from Tokyo to Yokohama as another way of honouring the man after whom the prize was named. In 1899, Dr. Noguchi worked at the Yokohama Port Quarantine Office as an assistant quarantine doctor. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda made the actual award presentation; and the Emperor and