CDC Foundation Hero Award

The CDC Foundation Hero Award recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to improving the public’s health through exemplary work in advancing CDC’s mission of promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability.

Criteria for Nominees

A CDC Foundation Hero must have made a significant contribution to improving public health through activities that exemplify CDC’s mission of promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability.

Appropriate nominees will have made a significant contribution to improving public health and embody the following characteristics:

Leadership

• A creative leader whose commitment to public health stimulates excellence among peers and staff and who has earned the respect of the public health community
• A leader who takes an active interest in national or international public health issues and advocates for policies and programs that improve health

Innovation

• An individual who has found a new way to address an established public health challenge and whose work has national or global impact
• An individual who has reached across established boundaries to form groundbreaking partnerships in pursuit of improved health for an at-risk or vulnerable populations

Scholarship

• A thought leader in the public health arena whose commitment to science is foremost and whose scholarly work informs the activities of the public health field
• An individual or team who has demonstrated excellence in public health research