Award | Date | Recipient | Details |
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World No Tobacco Day award | 2022 | Mateusz Zatoński | This award was given posthumously by the World Health Organization in recognition of Mateusz's contribution to tobacco control efforts |
WHO Special Recognition Award | 2021 | TCRG | This award is made by the Director-General of the World Health Organization for World No Tobacco Day, recognising over a decade of contribution to tobacco control |
Vice-Chancellor's Research Medal | 2019 | Anna Gilmore | This award is made in recognition of sustained record of research excellence and impact |
European Health Leadership Award | 2019 | Anna Gilmore | The inaugural award recognises 'pioneering change makers' who have shown 'transformative innovation and leadership in safeguarding or improving the health of people in Europe' |
Public Health Science Conference | 2016 | Karen Evans-Reeves | Runner-up Best Presentation by an early-career researcher, Content analysis of tobacco industry data on the illicit tobacco trade in UK newspapers during the standardised packaging debate |
Cancer Research UK | 2014 | Karen Evans-Reeves | Training and Career Development Board Research Travel Award |
15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health | 2012 | Silvy Peeters | Young Investigator Award |
Public Health Advocacy Institute International Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents | 2009 | Anna Gilmore | Presented to honour 'innovative application of these documents to improve the health of people around the world' |
World No Tobacco Day Medal | 2008 | Anna Gilmore | In recognition of 'outstanding efforts in [the] research of tobacco control and tobacco industry strategies in Europe' |
Recognition for our work on bribery and corruption in Africa
In 2021, BBC 1 Panorama aired ‘Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business’. Filmed on location in South Africa, the documentary raised concerns about the activities of a blue-chip British company and was based on an 18-month investigation by TCRG, the BBC and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (the Bureau).
In addition, two reports based on Bath’s research were published by STOP – a global tobacco industry watchdog in which Bath TCRG is the research partner. The reports are available from STOP's website BAT Uncovered.
As well as global media coverage, this work has received widespread recognition:
- long-listed for Private Eye's Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism
- the whistleblowers who provided documents to the investigation received a Blueprint for Free Speech award
- the BAT Uncovered website was honoured in the Webby Awards
- a podcast series based on the research, produced by the Bureau, won Best Investigative Podcast at the Publishers Podcast Awards