for Medicine 1986 – National Medal of Science in Biology 1988 – The Japan Prize, shared with Isao Arita and Frank Fenner 1990 – Health for All Medal, World Health Organization 1994 – Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, Sabin Foundation 1995 – John Stearns Medal, New York Academy of Medicine 1996 – Edward Jenner Medal, Royal Society of Medicine 2001 – Clan Henderson Society, Chiefs Order 2002 – Presidential Medal of Freedom 2013 – Order of Brilliant Star, with Grand Cordon, Republic of China 2014 – Prince Mahidol Award, Thailand 2015 – Charles Merieux Award, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Seventeen universities conferred honorary degrees on Henderson. Selected publications Fenner F, Henderson DA, Arita I, Jezek Z, Ladnyi. (1988) Smallpox and Its Eradication (), Geneva, World Health Organization. The definitive archival history of smallpox. Henderson DA. (2009) Smallpox, the Death of a Disease () New York: Prometheus Books Henderson DA (1993) Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation. In: Morse SS, ed. Emerging Viruses. New York: Oxford University Press: 283–289. Henderson DA, Borio LL (2005) Bioterrorism: an overview. In Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Eds. Mandell MD, Bennett JE, Dolin R) Phil, Churchill Livingstone, 3591–3601. Henderson DA (2010) The global eradication of smallpox: Historical Perspective and Future Prospects in The Global Eradication of Smallpox (Ed: Bhattacharya S, Messenger S) Orient Black Swan, London. 7–35 Henderson DA. (1967) Smallpox eradication and measles-control programs in West and Central Africa: Theoretical and practical approaches and problems. Industry and Trop Health VI, 112–120, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. . Personal life Henderson married Nana Irene Bragg in 1951. The couple had a daughter and two sons. He died at Gilchrist Hospice, Towson, Maryland, at the age of 87, after fracturing his hip. References External link 1928 births 2016 deaths American public health doctors Donald Ainslie Henderson Oberlin College alumni People from Lakewood, Ohio National Medal of Science laureates University of Pittsburgh faculty Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni Smallpox eradication Vaccinologists American people of Canadian descent American people of Scottish descent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Members of the National Academy of Medicine