APHA Presidential Citation

 

2006

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association

 

2005

National Association of Community Health Centers

 

2004

Doctors Without Borders

 

2003

Diana M. Bontá, 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 Africa

 

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 University 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 H.E.W. Architect of Social Security

 

1985

James P. Grant, JD, Executive Director, UNICEF

 

1983

Anthony Mazzocchi, Director of the 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

 

1980

Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Leader

 

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, Educational 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 Eula Hall, Director, Mud Creek Health Project, Kentucky

 

1974

        Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Founder and

        President of Operation P.U.S.H.

 

1973

        Representative Paul G. Rogers, D-FL

 

1972

        Senator Lister Hill, D-AL

 

1971

        William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator,

        U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

1969

        Isidore E. Buff, MD, Donald L. Rasmussen, MD,  

        Hawey A. Wells, Jr., MD and Lorin E. Kerr, MD

 

1968

        Representative Melvin R. Laird, R-WI

 

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 active in water pollution control

        activities

 

1964

        The families of public health workers

        everywhere – accepted by Barbara James,

        daughter of Health Commissioner George James

        of New York City

 

1963

        Representative Oren Harris, D-AR, author and

        co-author of many public health and medical

        program bills

 

1962

        J. George Harrar, President, Rockefeller

        Foundation

 

1961

        Anne F. Rogers, Mrs. C.E.A. Winslow, member,

        Citizen Board of Directors, New Haven Visiting

        Nurse Association (Connecticut)

 

1959

        Mary Woodward Lasker, President and Albert

        and Mary Lasker Foundation

 

1957

        Representative John E. Fogarty, D-RI, Active in

        health legislation for 11 years

 
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