2011 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA
2010 Robert Garcia, JD
2009 Alexander Gatherer, MD, FFPH, FRSPH
2008 Wellstone Action!
2007 National WIC Association
2006 Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
2005 National Association of Community Health Centers
2004 Doctors Without Borders
2003 Diana M. Bonta, RN, DrPH, Director,
California Department of Health Services
2002 William H. Foego, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor,
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
2001 Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
2000 Donna E. Shalala, Secretary, Department of Health
and Human Services
1999 Frank Speizer, MD, Edward H. Kass Professor of Medicine,
Channing Laboratory
1998 Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate
1997 Nelson Mandela, President of South America
1996 Laurie Garrett, Health and Science Writer for Newsday
and New York Newsday
1995 Byllye Y. Avery, MEd, President of the National Black
Women's Health Project
1994 Rhoda Karpatkin, President of Consumers Union
of U.S., Inc.
1993 Frances Fox Piven, PhD, The Graduate School
and Unviersity Center for the City University of
New York PHD Program in Political Science
1992 John W. Gardner, PhD, Stanford University,
Graduate School of Business
1990 Peggy Charren, President, Action for Children's Television
1989 Studs L. Terkel, Author and Social Commentator
1988 Louis Stokes, Member of Congress, 21st Congressional
District of Ohio
1987 Wilbur J. Cohen, Professor of Public Affairs, University
of Texas and former Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Architect
of Social Security
1985 James P. Grant, JD, Executive Director, UNICEF
1983 Anthony Mazzocchi, Director of Workers Policy Project,
Institute for Labor, Education and Research
1982 Margaret E. Kuhn, Founder, Gray Panthers, National
Advocate for American Senior Citizens
1981 Bill Mauldin, Chicago Sun Times, pen-and-ink
Commentator on the social and political scence,
Editorial Cartoonist
1980 Rosa Parks, Civic Rights Leader and Principal in the
successful peaceful bus boycott by Blacks in
Montgomery, Alabama
1979 Marian Wright Edelman, LLB, Founder and President,
Children's Defense Fund
1978 Rosalynn Carter, First Lady and Honorary Chairperson,
President's Commission on Mental Health
1977 John J. Hanlon, MD, MPH, former Surgeon General,
U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health
Education and Welfare
1976 Russell E. Train, Director, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
1975 Betty Friedan, Women's Rights Advocate and Founder
of the National Organization for Women and
Eula Hall, Director, Mud Creek Health Project,
Kentucky
1974 The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Founder and President of
Operation P.U.S.H. (People United to Save Humanity)
1973 The Honorable Paul G. Rogers, D-FL,
House of Representatives
1972 The Honorable Lister Hill, D-AL, Sponsor or Co-sponsor
of are far-reaching health legislation, including the
Hill-Burton Hospital Funding Act
1971 William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
1969 Isidore E. Buff, MD, Donald L. Rasmussen, MD,
Hawey A. Wells, Jr., MD, Lorin E. Kerr, MD,
Leaders in the fight against "Black Lung"
1968 The Honorable Melvin R. Laird, R-WI, Member,
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee
on Labor, Health, Education and Welfare,
U.S. House of Representatives
1967 Robert M. Nash, Director, Office of Equal Health
Opportunity, U.S. Public Health Service
1966 Emory W. Morris, DDS, President, W.K. Kellogg
Foundation
1965 John Charles Daly, Reporter and Television Personality
crew in water pollution control activities
1964 The families of public health workers everywhere
accepted by Barbara James, daughter of
Health Commissioner Georges James
of New York City
1963 Representative Oren Harris, D-AR, Author or Co-author
of many pub lic health and medical program bills,
U.S. House of Representatives
1962 J. George Harrar, President, Rockefeller Foundation
1961 Anne F. Rogers, (Mrs. C.E.A. Winslow), Member, Citizen
Board of Directors, New Haven, Connecticut
Visiting Nurse Association
1959 Mary Woodward Lasker, President, Albert and Mary
Lasker Foundation
1957 Representative John E. Fogarty, D-RI, Active in health
legislation for 11 years, U.S. House of
Representative