Tom Catena

American physician · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1964 · age 62

Thomas Gerard Catena is an American physician who has been practising in Gidel in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan since 2008.

Tom Catena is read about 16 times a day, in 6 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 21 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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An abandoned village in the Nuba Mountains from the previous civil war. Villagers moved up in the mountains to avoid the militias.

Awards

Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity

Theodore Roosevelt Award

Catholics in Media Associates - CIMA Social Justice Award

Time 100

National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners

About this person

On May 28, 2017, he was awarded the second annual Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, receiving a $100,000 grant and an additional one million dollars for him to distribute to three humanitarian organizations. He has been likened to the 20th-century medical missionary Albert Schweitzer. The New York Times has published instructions on how to donate to Catena. In 2018, Dr. Catena was appointed Chair of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative.

Country

United States