平成23年1月6日
受賞理由としては、
- 全国の医科系大学の衛生学・公衆衛生学の教授を組織した衛生学・公衆衛生学教育協議会の代表世話人を2期にわたって務め、我が国での公衆衛生学教育でユニークな存在の岡山大学医学部衛生学教室の主任教授と看護教育の名門である高知女子大学の学長を務めた功績
- スモン患者や森永ヒ素ミルク中毒被害者についての学術的にレベルの高い疫学調査の実施
- 労働災害防止のための啓蒙活動による産業保健への貢献
等が挙げられており、ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学への貢献としては学士会の終身会員として、また公衆衛生学大学院の学部長諮問委員会のメンバーとしての役割を遂行した貢献が挙げられています。
さらに、日本人以外の幅広い国々（13カ国・42名）の公衆衛生医の養成を助成する基金を設立して、数多くの優れた公衆衛生医を国際的に養成したことが高く評価されました。
Distinguished Alumnus Award 2010
2010 Recipients
Hideyasu Aoyama, SPH ’69
Hideyasu Aoyama managed the directors of every preventive medicine department in all of Japan’s medical schools prior to his retirement in 2003, including Okayama University Medical School and Kochi Women’s University, the premier Japanese women’s institute for nursing and health. He has been an outspoken voice for worker safety, pushing to discover the etiology of the disease subacute myelo-optic neuropathy (SMON), a neurologic disease resulting from exposure to the drug clioquinol, which was associated with two epidemics in Okayama. He was among the few public health physicians who worked to establish the industrial origins of an outbreak of arsenic poisoning among Japanese children and to continue to bring public pressure upon the company that was responsible. His work eventually led to long-term treatment and care for survivors of the epidemic. Hideyasu has also been decorated with a number of nationally based awards in Japan as well as election to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. In February 1999, he was elected to the Bloomberg School’s Dean’s Alumni Advisory Council. Hideyasu has brought a global perspective to the practice of public health in Japan. Within one year of his graduation from the Bloomberg School he helped to set up a fellowship program for non-Japanese physicians coming to Japan. He reinforced his beliefs in cultural exchange and international scholarship in May 2002 when he endowed the Aoyama-Kita Scholarship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, which has granted funding to students every year since its founding.Johns Hopkins Alumnus Distinguished Alumnus Award 2010から引用
