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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. |
CDC Foundation Hero Award
The CDC Foundation Hero Award was established in 2005 to coincide with the Foundation’s tenth anniversary celebrating “A Decade of Heroes.”
The 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.
CDC Foundation Hero Award Recipients |
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| 2009 | William Foege, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Fellow, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention For improving health for some of the world's most vulnerable populations – and for all of us – by influencing public health policy around the world and by bringing new partners together to tackle important public health challenges. |
| 2008 | Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director, Partners In Health For his cutting-edge research in global health equity and his extensive field work demonstrating that, through leveraging strategic partnerships and empowering community health workers, modern medical science and care can be provided successfully to impoverished communities in both industrialized and developing nations. Read More |
2007 |
Sir Michael Marmot, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D., F.R.C.P., F.F.P.H.M., FMedSci, Director of the University College London (UCL) International Institute for Society and Health and MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public HealthFor his groundbreaking work examining how socioeconomic status affects health over a lifetime and his leadership in advocating for policy changes and individual actions to reduce health inequalities within and between countries. Read More | Watch Video |
2006 |
Raymond J. Baxter, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Community Benefit for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation HospitalsFor affirming the critical importance of governmental public health’s role in addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina and for long-standing commitment to improving the health of communities. Read More |
2005 |
Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York CityFor outstanding leadership of one of the world’s most important cities during its gravest crisis, and for establishing a standard of leadership that embraced public health and public health planning. Read More |
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 populati
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
How to Nominate
Award nominations for the 2010 CDC Foundation Hero Award must be received no later than March 15, 2010.