trial involved 1.8 million children in the U.S., Canada, and Finland and an enormous network of community volunteers. The results of the study were announced in Rackham Auditorium of the University of Michigan on April 12, 1955, and signaled an era of hope and success in combating infectious diseases and, more broadly, in the development of large-scale efforts for the good of society. In 1933, Francis married Dorothy Packard Otton, and they had two children. He died in 1969 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Quotation (Francis on his work): "Epidemiology must constantly seek imaginative and ingenious teachers and scholars to create a new genre of medical ecologists who, with both the fine sensitivity of the scientific artist, and the broad perception of the community sculptor, can interpret the interplay of forces which result in disease." Honors He was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1946. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1948. He was honored with the Lasker Award in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the knowledge of influenza in 1947 He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1954. He was elected to the Polio Hall of Fame, which was dedicated in Warm Springs, Georgia in January 1958 in recognition of his polio research work. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960. Posthumous recognition in 2005 by dedicating the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health at Michigan Further reading Publications Experimental septicemia; a method for its production in dogs Yale University (1925) (M.D. Thesis) PubMed listed papers References 1900 births 1969 deaths American public health doctors American virologists University of Michigan faculty Recipients of the Medal of Freedom Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Influenza researchers American medical researchers Vaccinologists 20th-century American physicians Members of the American Philosophical Society