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Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service
The Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service is awarded by the Lasker Foundation. It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Public Service Award, but was renamed in 2000 in honour of his wife. Past Winners include:
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Alfred Newton Richards
Alfred Newton Richards (March 22, 1876 – March 24, 1966) was an American pharmacologist,
Richards was born in Stamford, New York. He served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology from 1910 to...
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Fred Soper
Frederick Lowe Soper (December 13, 1893 – February 9, 1977) was an American epidemiologist.
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, His first two degrees were received from the University of Kansas, an AB in 1914 and his Masters of Science in 1916. He received...
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Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 – September 22, 1970) was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying...
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Rolla Dyer
Rolla Eugene Dyer (1886–1971) was born in Delaware County, Ohio. Dyer received his B.A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and his M.D. from the University of Texas. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service in 1916.
His first assignment involved...
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Martha May Eliot
Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891-February 14, 1978) was a pediatrician and specialist in public health, an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New...
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Eugene Lindsay Bishop
Eugene Lindsay Bishop, M.D. (1886-1951) served as the Commissioner for the Tennessee State Health Department from 1924-1935 and as the Director of the Health and Safety Department of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1935-1951. He was awarded a...
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Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871–October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to...
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Brock Chisholm
George Brock Chisholm, CC, MC & Bar (18 May 1896 - 4 February 1971) was a Canadian First World War veteran, medical practitioner, and the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). He was a strong advocate of religious tolerance...
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Howard A. Rusk
Howard A. Rusk was a prominent physician and founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. He was considered to be the founder of rehabilitation medicine. Rusk was active in the Health for Peace movement in the 1950s and supported US...
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Karl Menninger
Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 - July 18, 1990), born in Topeka, Kansas, was an American psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka,...
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William C. Menninger
William Claire Menninger (1899-1966) was a co-founder with his brother Karl and his father of The Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, which is an internationally known center for treatment of behavioral disorders.
William Menninger was involved...
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Robert Defries
Robert Davies Defries, CC, CBE (July 23, 1889 – October 25, 1975) was a Canadian physician and Director of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1913.
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Basil O'Connor
Basil O'Connor (January 8, 1892 Taunton, Massachusetts – March 9, 1972 Phoenix, Arizona) was an American lawyer. In co-operation with US-President Franklin D. Roosevelt he started two foundations for the rehabiltation of polio patients and the...
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Maurice Pate
Maurice Pate (October 14, 1894 – January 19, 1965) was an American humanitarian and businessman. With Herbert Hoover, Pate co-founded the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 1947 and served as its first executive director from 1947 until his...
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Abel Wolman
Abel Wolman (June 10, 1892 – February 22, 1989) was an American inventor, scientist, professor and pioneer of modern sanitary engineering. His work in supplying clean water spanned eight decades.
Wolman was born, grew up, was educated, lived and...
Melvin R. Laird
Melvin Robert (Bom) Laird (born September 1, 1922) is an American politician and writer. Laird was a Republican congressman who also served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973. Laird urged Nixon to maintain a policy of...
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Oren Harris
Oren Harris (December 20, 1903 - February 5, 1997) was a U.S. Representative and United States District Court Judge from Arkansas.
Born in Belton, Arkansas, Harris attended the public schools. He graduated from Henderson State College, Arkadelphia,...
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Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He...
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J. Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894–December 21, 1984) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama. He was elected to fill the term left by the resignation of Dixie Bibb Graves and was reelected five times, serving in the Senate from...
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Warren G. Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905–May 20, 1989) was a United States Senator of the Democratic Party from Washington from 1944 until 1981. Upon leaving the Senate, he was the most senior member of the body. Magnuson also served as a...
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Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913–December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher.
Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical...
Jules C. Stein
Dr. Jules C. Stein (26 April 1896 – 29 April 1981) was an American musician, physician, and business leader who built a band booking agency with $1,000 of capital into MCA Inc., a billion-dollar force in the world of mass entertainment. Stein's...
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited...
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Halfdan T. Mahler
Halfdan T. Mahler of Denmark was born on 21 April 1923 at Vivild, Denmark. In 1951, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and spent almost ten years in India as Senior WHO Officer attached to the National Tuberculosis Programme. From 1962,...
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Saul Krugman
Not to be confused with Paul Krugman.
Saul Krugman (1911 – 1995) was a medical researcher who discovered a vaccine against hepatitis B.
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Krugman was born in the Bronx in 1911. He began his undergraduate studies...
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver DSG (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) founded the precursor to the Special Olympics in 1962. In 1968, she helped Ann McGlone Burke popularize the Special Olympics movement across the U.S.
She was a member of the Kennedy family...
Henry Heimlich
Henry Jay Heimlich MD (born Henry Judah Heimlich, 3 February 1920), an American physician, has received credit as the inventor of abdominal thrusts known as the Heimlich maneuver, though debate continues over his role in the development of the...
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Eppie Friedman
Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (née Friedman) (July 4 1918–June 22, 2002), better known by the pseudonym Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity who began her career writing the 'Ask Ann Landers'...
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Ma Haide
Ma Haide (Chinese: Mǎ Hǎidé 马海德; 1910-1988), born Shafick George Hatem, was a doctor and public health official in China from 1933 until his death.
Shafick George Hatem was born into a family of Syrian Jewish extraction, living in Buffalo, New York...
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Tip O'Neill
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (December 9, 1912–January 5, 1994) was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two...
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Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. (born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980. Though a member of...
Paul Rogers
Paul Grant Rogers (June 4, 1921 – October 13, 2008) was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Florida. A Democrat, Rogers served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the member from Florida's 11th congressional district. He was...
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Mark Hatfield
Mark Odom Hatfield (born July 12, 1922) is an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A...
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Elliot Richardson
Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 – December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal...
Betty Ford
Elizabeth Anne "Betty" Bloomer Ford (born April 8, 1918) is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. As first lady, Betty Ford was active in social policy and...
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John Edward Porter
John Edward Porter (born June 1, 1935) is a former United States Representative from Illinois.
Porter was born in Evanston, Illinois, was educated in public schools, and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year before...
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Western Mass Pioneers
Western Mass Pioneers is an American professional soccer team based in Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1998, the team plays in the USL Second Division (USL-2), the third tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team plays its home...
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William Foege
William Herbert Foege (pronounced /ˈfeɪɡi/), M.D., M.P.H. (born 1936 in Decorah, Iowa) is an American epidemiologist who is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s". In addition, he ...
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Donald Henderson
Donald Ainslie Henderson, known as D.A. Henderson, (born September 7, 1928) is an American physician and epidemiologist, who headed the international effort during the 1960s to eradicate smallpox. As of 2005, he is a Resident Scholar at the...
Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements, including his notable motion picture portrayal of the fictional...
Nancy Brinker
Nancy Goodman Brinker (born December 6, 1946, in Peoria, Illinois) is the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization named after her only sister, Susan, who died from breast cancer in 1980 at age 36. Brinker was also United States...
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony S. Fauci (born: December 24, 1940) is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and...
