WAS Awards

During the biennial congresses WAS delivers several awards. 

The Gold Medal.

This  is the most prestigious individual honour of the World Association for Sexual Health.
A maximum of five Gold Medals are awarded at the WAS Biennial Congress.

The Awards for Excellence & Innovation in Sexuality Education

These awards are to recognize the special contribution sexuality educators make to the overall fields of education, health and sexology.
The World Association for Sexual Health presents this prestigious award in three categories:
   A.  Non-Government Organizations or Individuals
   B.  Academic programmes
   C.  Governmental and Government-sponsored programmes

Please visit this section regularly to learn when the process of selection / call for nominations will be opened

Nominations 

Gold Medal Winners

2011 Glasgow, United Kingdom 
Ricardo Cavalcanti - Brazil
Chizuko Ikegami - Japan
Bill Stayton - USA
Alfons Vansteenwegen - Belgium
Beverly Whipple - USA 

2009 Göteborg, Sweden
Thore Langfelt - Norway
Irwin Goldstein - USA
Maria Helena Matarazzo - Brazil
Julia Heiman - USA
Catherine Hamlin - Australia

2007 Sidney, Australia
Jole Baldaroverde - Italy
Eli Coleman - USA
Helene O´Connell - Australia
Robert Porto - France
D. Narayana Reddy - India

2005 Montreal, Canada
Virginia Masters & William Johnson - USA
Roy Levin - UK
Igor Kon - Russia
Walter Everaerd - Holland
Lorraine Dennerstein - Australia

2003 Havana, Cuba
Man Lun Ng - Hong Kong
Rubén Hernandez Serrano - Venezuela
Preben Hertoft - Denmark
John Bancroft - U.K.
Richard Green - U.S.A.

2001 Paris , France
Suzanne Aurelius - Chile
Gerard Valles - France
P.O. Lundberg - Sweden
Erwin Haeberle - Germany
Yoshiro Hatano - Japan

1999 Hong Kong
Ishiham - Japan
Wu Jai-Ping - China
Mahinder C. Watsa - India
Cecilia Cardinal de Martin - Colombia
Gorm Wagner - Denmark
Harold Lief - USA

1997 Valencia, Spain 
Prakash Kothari - India
Maj Briht Bergström Walan - Sweden
Fernando Bianco - Venezuela
Celestino Alvarez - Cuba
Esther Corona - Mexico

1995 Yokohama, Japan
Helen S. Kaplan - USA
John Money - USA
Patricia Schiller - USA
G. Matsumoto - Japan 

B.  Academic programmes
C.  Governmental and Government-sponsored programmes