The Frontline Newsletter Fall 2006 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.

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.

The inaugural award was presented to Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City, at the Foundation’s tenth anniversary celebration in 2005. The award is now presented annually at the Foundation’s Annual Reception – an event hosted by the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

CDC Foundation Hero Award Recipients
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 Health

For 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 Hospitals

For 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 City

For 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 2008 CDC Foundation Hero Award must be received no later than February 15, 2008.

Download Nomination Form