Elsevier Foundation Award
The OWSD - Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World is awarded annually to early-career women scientists in selected developing countries in four regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Central and South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), the Elsevier Foundation, and The World Academy of Sciences have partnered to recognize achievements of early-career women scientists in developing countries since the award was launched in 2011 as the Elsevier Foundation-OWSD Awards for Young  Women Scientists from the Developing World. The award program is open to female scientists who live and work in one of 81 developing countries. Nominations are generally submitted within ten years of the nominee earning a PhD. The maximum number of recipients is currently restricted to five per year: one from each of the four OWSD-recognized regions, plus one additional outstanding candidate, and the awards are granted with a rotating theme annually among three general fields: biological sciences (agriculture, biology and medicine), engineering/innovation & technology, and physical sciences (including chemistry, mathematics and physics). As of 2014, the award includes  an honorarium of 5,000, one year of access to Elsevier's ScienceDirect publication database, and an expense-paid trip to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where an awarding ceremony is held. Recipients. Recipients have included: 2011. The 2011 awards recognized eleven contributors to biology, physics, and chemistry. 2013. The 2013 awards were focused on medical science and public health. 2014. The 2014 awards were focused on chemistry. 2015. In 2015, the awards were focused on physics and mathematics. 2016. The 2016 awards focused on medical science and public health. 2017. The 2017 awards  were focused on engineering and technology. 2018. The 2018 awards focused on mathematics, chemistry, and physics. 2019. The 2019 awards focused on medical science and public health.