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Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2013 |
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Bill Gates |
For leading a historic transformation in the way we view the globe's most pressing health concerns and improving the lives of millions of the world's most vulnerable. |
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Melinda Gates |
For leading a historic transformation in the way we view the globe's most pressing health concerns and improving the lives of millions of the world's most vulnerable. |
| 2012 |
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| 2011 |
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center |
For serving since its inception as a model research hospital\u2014providing innovative therapy and high-quality patient care, treating rare and severe diseases, and producing outstanding physician-scientists whose collective work has set a standard of excellence in biomedical research. |
| 2010 |
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| 2009 |
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Michael Bloomberg |
For employing sound science in political decision making; setting a world standard for the public's health as an impetus for government action; leading the way to reduce the scourge of tobacco use; and advancing public health through enlightened philanthropy. |
| 2008 |
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| 2007 |
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Anthony Fauci |
For his role as the principal architect of two major U.S. governmental programs, one aimed at AIDS and the other at biodefense. |
| 2006 |
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| 2005 |
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Nancy Brinker |
For creating one of the world's great foundations devoted to curing breast cancer and for dramatically increasing public awareness about this devastating disease. |
| 2004 |
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| 2003 |
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Christopher Reeve |
For perceptive, sustained, and heroic advocacy for medical research in general, and victims of disability in particular. |
| 2002 |
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| 2001 |
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William Foege |
For his courageous leadership in improving worldwide public health, and his prominent role in the eradication of smallpox. |
| 2000 |
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Betty Ford |
For using her leadership and prestige to bring about lasting progress in research, medicine and health aimed at alcohol and drug addiction. |
| 2000 |
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Harold P. Freeman |
For enlightening scientists and the public about the relationship between race, poverty and cancer. |
| 2000 |
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David Mahoney |
For visionary leadership in educating the public and the donor community about the importance of brain research, and for directing funds for the support of neuroscience. |
| 2000 |
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John Porter |
For wise and perceptive leadership on behalf of medical research funding and a deep commitment to strengthening the science enterprise |
| 2000 |
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The New York Times
(For sustained, comprehensive and high-quality coverage about science, disease and human health.) |
| 1999 |
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| 1998 |
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| 1997 |
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| 1995 |
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Mark Hatfield |
For energetic leadership and enduring advocacy in support of biomedical research. |
| 1994 |
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| 1993 |
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Paul Rogers |
For tireless leadership in advancing the cause of American health care through his initiatives both as a legislator and as a private citizen. |
| 1993 |
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Nancy Wexler |
For her groundbreaking work in the scientific and public arenas towards finding a cure for Huntington's disease and for increasing awareness of all genetic disease. |
| 1992 |
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| 1991 |
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Robin Chandler Duke |
For her dedicated efforts to enhance the lives of the worldwide community through family planning and population control. |
| 1991 |
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Tip O'Neill |
For his tireless dedication to increasing our nation's commitment to biomedical research, and a lifetime of public advocacy for the disadvantaged. |
| 1990 |
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| 1989 |
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Lewis Thomas |
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| 1988 |
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Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. |
For his compassion and dedication in the fight to eradicate disease and disability through federal funding of medical research and public health programs. |
| 1987 |
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| 1986 |
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Ma Haide |
For his legendary contributions to the control and eradication of venereal diseases and leprosy in China, greatly improving the health of a billion people. |
| 1985 |
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Lane W. Adams |
For the extraordinary management skills, integrity and vision with which he has expanded the American Cancer Society into the major volunteer force in the battle against cancer. |
| 1985 |
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Eppie Friedman |
For her respected advice and practical translations of authoritative medical opinion and her tireless commitment to the health and well-being of the American people. |
| 1984 |
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Henry Heimlich |
For developing the Heimlich Maneuver, which has prevented many thousands of needless deaths. |
| 1983 |
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Maurice Hilleman |
For discovering the causes of certain viral diseases and for pioneering breakthroughs in vaccine development, especially hepatitis B vaccine development throughout the world. |
| 1983 |
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Saul Krugman |
For his persistent leadership in conceiving, developing and testing vaccines against various viral diseases, especially hepatitis B, with vast impact on world health. |
| 1982 |
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| 1981 |
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| 1980 |
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| 1979 |
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John Foster Wilson |
For his dynamic leadership in organizing practical programs to alleviate, prevent, and treat blinding eye diseases. |
| 1978 |
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Elliot Richardson |
For his crucial decision in 1972, as Secretary of HEW, to inaugurate a national education program for the control of high blood pressure, a major contributing cause of heart disease and stroke. |
| 1978 |
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Theodore Cooper |
For implementing in 1972 the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, which has contributed significantly to the reduction in deaths from stroke, kidney and heart diseases. |
| 1977 |
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| 1976 |
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World Health Organization |
For its historic achievement in the practical eradication of smallpox from the Earth. |
| 1975 |
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Jules C. Stein |
For his unique contributions toward the preservation of vision and the restoration of sight. |
| 1974 |
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| 1973 |
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Warren Magnuson |
For his outstanding leadership and support of medical research and health legislation for the people of the United States. |
| 1972 |
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| 1971 |
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| 1970 |
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| 1969 |
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| 1968 |
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J. Lister Hill |
For his leadership in guiding to passage over 80 major pieces of health legislation, which together represent an historic and abiding commitment by the national government to the health of all of our people. |
| 1967 |
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Claude Pepper |
For his continuing dedication to medical legislation in both Houses of Congress. |
| 1966 |
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
For her encouragement of national legislation to improve the care of the mentally retarded, and for her effective dedication to their cause. |
| 1965 |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
Special Award for outstanding contributions to the health of the people of the United States. |
| 1964 |
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| 1963 |
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Melvin R. Laird |
For his recognition of the new challenges to legislative leadership in the field of health on the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Labor, Health, Education and Welfare. |
| 1963 |
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Oren Harris |
For his years of dedicated service as Chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over all legislation in the fields of public health and safety and which has passed many pieces of landmark health legislation. |
| 1962 |
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| 1961 |
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| 1960 |
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John B. Grant |
For his work as an international statesman of public health, a recognized authority on the problems of preventive medicine and medical care. |
| 1960 |
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Abel Wolman |
For his work as a leader of both lay and professional health groups, consultant to industrial companies and advisor to government bodies: his engineering skill and organizational genius contributed much toward achieving a healthier environment for many people. |
| 1959 |
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Maurice Pate |
For notable service to the world's children and especially for skilled development of the United Nations Children's Fund program for improving maternal and child health. |
| 1958 |
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Basil O'Connor |
For extraordinary administrative leadership in the eradication of a crippling disease of childhood, poliomyelitis, through development of an effective vaccine. |
| 1957 |
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Frank G. Boudreau |
For his work with the Milbank Memorial Fund and for promoting better mental health, good nutrition and improved housing. |
| 1957 |
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C.J. Van Slyke |
For his unique contributions in laying the foundation for a national program of medical research and training. |
| 1957 |
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Reginald M. Atwater |
For guiding the American Public Health Association to a position of leadership as the largest organization of its kind in the western world. |
| 1956 |
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William P. Shepard |
For pioneering work as an industrial health physician, educator and government advisor. |
| 1955 |
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Robert Defries |
For distinguished leadership in the development of preventive medicine and public health throughout Canada. |
| 1955 |
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William C. Menninger |
For a sustained and highly productive attack against mental diseases, leading to better hospitals, better trained staffs and greatly improved care of the mentally ill. |
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Karl Menninger |
For a sustained and highly productive attack against mental diseases, leading to better hospitals, better trained staffs and greatly improved care of the mentally ill. |
| 1955 |
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Lucile Leone |
For distinguished contributions to the advancement and well-being of the nation through their leadership in public health nursing. |
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Pearl McIver |
For distinguished contributions to the advancement and well-being of the nation through their leadership in public health nursing. |
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Margaret Arnstein |
For distinguished contributions to the advancement and well-being of the nation through their leadership in public health nursing. |
| 1954 |
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Leona Baumgartner |
For distinguished achievements in public health administration, thus strengthening community health. |
| 1953 |
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Felix J. Underwood |
For demonstrating how a long-sustained, sound and expanding pattern of health services benefits a people. |
| 1953 |
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Earle Phelps |
In recognition of a lifetime of pioneering leadership in public health and sanitary science. |
| 1952 |
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Brock Chisholm |
First director of WHO, for his leadership in organizing this vast post-war, international public health concept. |
| 1952 |
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Howard A. Rusk |
For his pioneering work in the service of the physically disabled and as distinguished rehabilitation mentor to the world. |
| 1951 |
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Florence R. Sabin |
For outstanding accomplishments in public health administration, as Chairman of the Health Committee of the Governor of Colorado's Post-War Planning Committee. |
| 1950 |
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Eugene Lindsay Bishop |
For original and meritorious accomplishments in public health administration. |
| 1949 |
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Marion W. Sheahan |
For distinguished leadership in the fields of nursing and public health. |
| 1948 |
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Rolla Dyer |
For his scientific accomplishments in the field of microbiological research and for his distinguished service as Director of the National Institutes of Health during the war and post-war years. |
| 1948 |
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Martha May Eliot |
For administrative achievement in the organization and operation of the Emergency Maternal and Infant Care Program. |
| 1947 |
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Alice Hamilton |
Pioneer leader in industrial toxicology: for her contribution to the prevention of occupational diseases and the improvement of workers' health. |
| 1946 |
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Alfred Newton Richards |
For his outstanding achievement in the organization and administration of the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, of which he was Chairman. The timely mass production of penicillin, the search for a better antimalarial drug, and the preparation of blood plasma were all research projects carried out during the war, under his supervision. |
| 1946 |
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Fred Soper |
For administrative achievement in controlling yellow fever and malaria through a new principle of species eradication of insect carriers. |
