| Year |
| City, State |
| 2025 | Deanna Wathington, MD, MPH, FAAFP
| Tampa, FL |
| 2024 | Ella Greene-Moton | Flint, Michigan |
| 2023 | Chris Chanyasulkit, PhD, MPH | Brookline, MA |
| 2022 | Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN | Terry, Mississippi |
| 2021 | José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA
| Evanston, Illinois |
| 2020 | Lisa Carlson, MPH, MCHES | Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2019 | Pamela M. Aaltonen, PhD, RN | West Lafayette, Indiana |
| 2018 | Joseph Telfair, DrPH, MSW, MPH | Statesboro, Georgia |
| 2017 | Thomas C. Quade, MPH, MA | Akron, Ohio |
| 2016 | Camara P. Jones, MD, PhD, MPH | Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2015 | Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2014 | Joyce Gaufin, BS | Dammeron Valley, Utah |
| 2013 | Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, MA | Tampa, Florida |
| 2012 | Mel Shipp, OD, DrPH, MPH | Columbus, Ohio |
| 2011 | Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH | Chicago, Illinois |
| 2010 | Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH | Oakland, California |
| 2009 | Cheryl E. Easley, PhD, RN | Anchorage, Alaska |
| 2008 | Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN | New Haven, Connecticut |
| 2007 | Deborah Klein Walker, EdM, EdD | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 2006 | Pat Mail, PhD, MPH | Tacoma, Washington |
| 2005 | Walter Tsou, MD, MPH | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2004 | Virginia A. Caine, MD | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 2003 | Jay Glasser, PhD | Houston, Texas |
| 2002 | Faye Wong, MPH | Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2001 | Michael Bird, MSW, MPH | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 2000 | Carol Easley Allen, PhD, RN, PHN | Huntsville, Alabama |
| 1999 | Audrey Gotsch, DRPH, CHES, MPH | Piscataway, New Jersey |
| 1998 | Quentin D. Young, MD, MS | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1997 | Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH | Sherborn, Massachusetts |
| 1996 | E. Richard Brown, PhD | Los Angeles, California |
| 1995 | A. Caswell Evans, Jr., DDS, MPH | Los Angeles, California |
| 1994 | Eugene Feingold, PhD | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1993 | Helen Rodriguez-Trias, MD, BS | New York, New York |
| 1992 | Joyce C. Lashof, MD | Berkeley, California |
| 1991 | C. William Keck, MD | Akron, Ohio |
| 1990 | Myron Allukian, Jr., DDS, MPH | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1989 | Iris Shannon, PhD, RN | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1988 | Bailus Walker, Jr., PhD, MPH | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1987 | Ruth Roemer, JD | Los Angeles, California |
| 1986 | William H. Foege, MD, MPH | Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1985 | Victor W. Sidel, MD | New York, New York |
| 1984 | Susan S. Addiss, MPH, MURS | Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1983 | Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA | Washington, D.C. |
| 1982 | Stanley J. Matek, MS | Tustin, California |
| 1981 | Larry J. Gordon, MS, MPH | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1980 | June Jackson Christmas, MD | New York, New York |
| 1979 | John H. Romani, PhD | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1978 | E. Frank Ellis, MD, MPH | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1977 | George E. Pickett, MD, MPH | San Mateo, California |
| 1976 | Morton S. Hilbert, MPH, CE | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1975 | C. Arden Miller, MD | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 1974 | Lorin E. Kerr, MD, MSPH | Washington, D.C. |
| 1973 | Margaret B. Dolan, RN | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 1972 | Myron F. Wegman, MD | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1971 | P. Walton Purdom, PhD | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1970 | Paul B. Cornely, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1969 | Lester J. Breslow, MD | Los Angeles, California |
| 1968 | John J. Hanlon, MD | Detroit, Michigan |
| 1967 | Milton Terris, MD | New York, New York |
| 1966 | Ernest L. Stebbins, MD | Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1965; | DwightF.Metzler, CE; | Albany, New York |
| 1964 | John D. Porterfield, MD& | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1963 | J.W.R. Norton, MD | Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 1962 | Charles Glen King, PhD | Scarsdale, New York |
| 1961 | Marion Sheahan, RN | Albany, New York |
| 1960 | Malcolm H. Merrill, MD | Berkeley, California |
| 1959 | Leona Baumgartner, MD | New York, New York |
| 1958; | Roy J. Morton, CE | Oak Ridge, Tennessee |
| 1957 | John W. Knutson, DDS | Washington, D.C. |
| 1956 | Ira V. Hiscock, SeD | New Haven, Connecticut |
| 1955 | Herman E. Hilleboe, MD | Albany, New York |
| 1954 | Hugh R. Leavell, MD | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1953 | Wilton L. Halverson, MD | San Fransisco, California |
| 1952 | Gaylord W. Anderson, MD | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1951 | William P. Shepard, MD | San Fransisco, California |
| 1950 | Lowel lJ. Reed, PhD | Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1949 | Charles F. Wilinsky, MD | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1948 | Martha M. Eliot, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1947 | Harry S. Mustard, MD | New York, New York |
| 1946 | John J. Sippy, MD | Stockton, California |
| 1945 | John J. Sippy, MD | Stockton, California |
| 1944 | Felix J. Underwood, MD | Jackson, Mississippi |
| 1943 | Allen W. Freeman, MD | Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1942 | John L. Rice,MD | New York, New York |
| 1941 | W.S. Leathers, MD | Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1940 | Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., MD | Albany, New York |
| 1939 | Abel Wolman, Dr.Eng | Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1938 | Arthur T. McCormack, MD | Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1937 | Thomas Parran, MD | Albany, New York |
| 1936 | Walter H. Brown, MD | Palo Alto, California |
| 1935 | Eugene L. Bishop, MD | Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1934 | Haven Emerson, MD | New York, New York |
| 1933 | John A. Ferrell, MD | New York, New York |
| 1932 | Louis I. Dublin, PhD | New York, New York |
| 1931 | Hugh S. Cumming, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1930 | A.J. Chesley, MD | St. Paul, Minnesota |
| 1929 | George W. Fuller | New York, New York |
| 1928 | Herman H. Bundesen, MD | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1927 | Charles V. Chapin, MD | Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1926 | C.-EA. Winslow, DrPH | New Haven, Connecticut |
| 1925 | Henry F. Vaughan, DrPH | Detroit, Michigan |
| 1924 | William H. Park, MD | New York, New York |
| 1923 | E.C. Levy, MD | Richmond, Virginia |
| 1922 | Allan J. McLaughlin, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1921 | Mazyck P. Ravenel, MD | Columbia, Missouri |
| 1920 | W. S. Rankin, MD | Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 1919 | Lee K. Frankel, PhD | New York, New York |
| 1918 | Charles J. Hastings, MD | Toronto, Canada |
| 1917 | W.A.Evans, MD | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1916 | John F. Anderson, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1915 | William T. Sedgwick, ScD | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1914 | W.C.Woodward, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1913 | Rudolph Hering, ScD | New York, New York |
| 1912 | J.N. Hurty, MD | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 1911 | Robert M. Simpson, MD | Winnipeg, Canada |
| 1910 | Charles O. Probst, MD | Columbus, Ohio |
| 1909 | Gardner T. Swarts, MD | Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1908 | Richard H. Lewis, MD | Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 1907 | Domingo Orvananos, MD | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1906 | Franklin C. Robinson, LLD | Brunswick, Minnesota |
| 1905 | Frank F. Wesbrook, MD | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1904 | Carlos J. Finlay, MD; | Havana, Cuba |
| 1903 | Walter Wyman, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1902 | Henry D. Holton, MD | Brattleboro, Vermont |
| 1901 | Benjamin Lee, MD | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1900 | Peter H.Bryce, MD | Toronto, Canada |
| 1899 | George H. Rohe, MD Deceased Feb 6, 1899 | Sykesville, Maryland |
| 1899 | Henry Mitchell, MD | Trenton, New Jersey |
| 1898 | Charles A. Lindsley, MD | New Haven, Connecticut |
| 1897 | Henry B. Horlbeck, MD | Charleston, South Carolina& |
| 1896 | Eduardo Liceaga, MD | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1895 | William Bailey, MD | Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1894 | Persiller-Lachapelle, MD | Montreal, Canada |
| 1893 | Samuel H. Durgin, MD | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1892 | Felix Formento, MD | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1891 | Frederick Montizambert, MD | Quebec, Canada |
| 1890 | Henry B. Baker, MD | Lansing, Michigan; |
| 1889 | Hosmer A Johnson, MD | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1888 | Charles N. Hewitt, MD | Red Wing, Minnesota |
| 1887 | George M. Sternberg, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1886 | Henry P. Walcott, MD | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1885 | James E. Reeves, MD | Wheeling, West Virginia; |
| 1884 | Albert L. Gihon, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1883 | Ezra M. Hunt, MD | Trenton, New Jersey |
| 1882 | Robert C. Kedzie, MD | Lansing, Michigan |
| 1881 | Charles B.White, MD | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1880 | John Shaw Billings, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1879 | James Lawrence Cabell, MD | Charlottesville, Virginia |
| 1878 | Elisha Harris, MD | New York, New York |
| 1877 | John Henry Rauch, MD | Springfield, Illinois |
| 1876 | Edwin M. Snow, MD | Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1875 | Joseph M. Toner, MD | Washington, D.C. |
| 1874 | Stephen Smith, MD | New York, New York |
| 1873 | Stephen Smith, MD | New York, New York |
| 1872 | Stephen Smith, MD | New York, New York |