The award is presented at IFEH World Congresses. It is to be awarded to either an individual or an organisation. Recipients must have made a notable contribution to the work of the Federation by helping it to fulfil its aims and objectives.
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About Eric Foskett


Eric W Foskett was born in 1920 in Woodville, Derbyshire, England. When he left school he went on to join the local environmental health department before serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. He returned from the army and worked in a number of local authorities in the North West of England, latterly as Chief Environmental Health Officer for the City of Manchester.

The International Federation of Environmental Health was conceived by Eric, who, in 1982 convinced his professional organisation (now the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health) to take the lead in forming such a Federation.  As a result, in 1985, the IFEH came into being, with the four original members being the associations representing environmental health professionals in Australia, in England, Wales & Northern Ireland, in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland.  Incorporation followed in 1986 at which time Eric became its first Honorary Secretary.

As a well-respected member of the profession he had contacts which he used to the Federation’s benefit; and the fact that he was awarded by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Order of the British Empire, speaks volumes for the esteem in which he was held by government at both a local and a national level.

When the time came for him to step down from active involvement in the day to day running of the Federation, the then Board of Directors, decided that the most fitting way to honour him would be to establish the 'Eric Foskett Award'.
It is appropriate that the first recipient of the award, in 2000 in Oslo, was made to Eric, without whose vision and commitment there may never have been an International Federation of Environmental Health.

Eric Foskett died on the 7 August 2001.
 

ALL RECIPIENTS OF THE ERIC FOSKETT AWARD
 

At the 9th IFEH World Congress 2006, Dublin,  the award was presented:

Kia Regnér
Honorary Vice President of IFEH

The Swedish Association of Environmental Health Professionals, SAEHP



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At the 8th IFEH World Congress 2004, Durban,  the award was presented:

Michael Halls
Past Honorary Secretary
Honorary Vice President of IFEH

Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland, REHIS


Read about the nomination.
 

At the 7th IFEH World Congress 2002, San Diego,  the award was presented:

John McCandless
Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, CIEH
Member of IFEH Council 1994-2000.

and CIEH NI Centre (jointly)


Read about the nomination.


 

At the 6th IFEH World Congress 2000, Oslo,  the inaugural award was presented:

Eric Foskett
Honorary Vice President of IFEH
† 7th of August 2001

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, CIEH


Read about the nomination.