1987 • Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association,

The Sedgwick Memorial Medal, given by the American Public Health Association, was established in 1929 for distinguished service and advancement of

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

knowledge and practice. It is considered the APHA's highest honor. The medal is established in honour of William Thompson Sedgwick (1855–1921).

Award recipients

Source
APHA
* 1929

Charles V. Chapin Charles Value Chapin (January 17, 1856 – January 31, 1941) was an American pioneer in public health research and practice during the Progressive Era. He was superintendent of health for Providence, Rhode Island between 1884 and 1932. He ...

* 1930 Theobald Smith * 1931 George W. McCoy * 1932 William H. Park * 1933

Milton J. Rosenau Milton Joseph Rosenau (January 1, 1869 – April 9, 1946) was an American public health official and professor who was influential in the early twentieth century. Early life Milton Joseph Rosenau was born in 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...

* 1934 Edwin O. Jordon * 1935 Haven Emerson * 1936

Frederick F. Russell Brigadier General Frederick Fuller Russell (1870 in Auburn, New York, USA – December 29, 1960) was a U.S. Army physician who perfected a typhoid vaccine in 1909. In 1911, a typhoid vaccination program was carried out to have the entire U.S. A ...

* 1938 Wade H. Frost * 1939 Thomas Parran * 1940 Hans Zinsser * 1941 Charles Armstrong * 1942 C.E.A. Winslow * 1943 James S. Simmons * 1944 Ernest W. Goodpasture * 1946 Karl F. Meyer * 1947 Reginald M. Atwater * 1948

Abel Wolman Abel Wolman (June 10, 1892 – February 22, 1989) was an American engineer, educator and pioneer of modern sanitary engineering. His professional career left impacts in academia, sanitary engineering research, environmental and public health serv ...

* 1949 Henry F. Vaughan * 1950 Rolla Eugene Dyer * 1951 Edward S. Godfrey * 1952 Kenneth F. Maxcy * 1953 Carl E. Buck * 1954 Willson G. Smillie * 1955 Albert J. Chesley * 1956 Frederick W. Jackson * 1957

Lowell J. Reed Lowell Jacob Reed (January 8, 1886 – April 29, 1966) was 7th president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born in Berlin, New Hampshire, the son of Jason Reed, a millwright and farmer, and Louella Coffin Reed. Edu ...

* 1958

Martha May Eliot Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first importa ...

* 1959 Louis I. Dublin * 1960 Fred T. Foard * 1961 Frank G. Boudreau * 1962 Ira V. Hiscock * 1963 Gaylord W. Anderson * 1964

Leona Baumgartner Leona Baumgartner (August 18, 1902 – January 15, 1991) was an American physician. She was the first woman to serve as Commissioner of New York City's Department of Health (1954–1962). She was a strong advocate of health education and a pioneer ...

* 1965

Willimina R. Walsh Willimina Rayne Walsh (1900 – 1966) was the associate director of the American Public Health Association. She was the recipient of the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in 1965 for her work on the growth and expansion of the association. Walsh wo ...

* 1966 Fred L. Soper * 1967 George Baehr * 1968 Herman E. Hilleboe * 1969 Marion W. Sheahan * 1970 Hugh R. Leavell * 1971 Margaret G. Arnstein * 1972 Paul B. Cornely * 1973 Isidore S. Falk * 1974 Myron E. Wegman * 1975 Leroy Edgar Burney * 1976 Malcolm H. Merrill * 1977

Lester Breslow Lester Breslow (March 17, 1915 in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA – April 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American physician who promoted public health. Breslow's career had a significant impact. He is credited with pioneering chro ...

* 1978 M. Allen Pond * 1979 Doris E. Roberts * 1980 Lorin E. Kerr * 1981

Dwight F. Metzler Dwight may refer to: People * Dwight (given name) * Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th president of the United States and former military officer *New England Dwight family of American educators, military and political leaders, and authors * ...

* 1982 C. Rufus Rorem * 1983 Milton I. Roemer * 1984 Milton Terris * 1985 Henrik L. Blum * 1986 C. Arden Miller * 1987

Larry J. Gordon Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names. Larry may refer to the following: People Arts and entertainment *Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer *Larry Boone ...

* 1988

Dorothy P. Rice Dorothy P. Rice (June 11, 1922 – February 25, 2017) was an American health statistician whose work contributed to the creation of Medicare in the United States. Rice graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began working with ...

* 1989 Clarence L. Brumback * 1990

Cecil G. Sheps Cecil may refer to: People with the name * Cecil (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) * Cecil (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Canada * Cecil, Albert ...

* 1991 Ruth Roemer * 1992

Julius B. Richmond Julius Benjamin Richmond (September 26, 1916 – July 27, 2008) was an American pediatrician and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the United States Su ...

* 1993 William H. Foege * 1994 William H. McBeath * 1995 Joyce Lashof * 1996 Leonard Schuman * 1997

Victor W. Sidel Victor W. Sidel (July 7, 1931 – January 30, 2018) was an American physician and a president of the American Public Health Association. He was a founder and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and later was co-president of Internat ...

* 1998 H. Jack Geiger * 1999

Avedis Donabedian Avedis Donabedian (7 January 1919 – 9 November 2000) was a physician and founder of the study of quality in health care and medical outcomes research, most famously as a creator of The Donabedian Model of care. Early life Avedis Donabedian ...

* 2000 Philip R. Lee * 2001 Myron Allukian * 2002 C. William Keck * 2003

E. Richard Brown E is the fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. E or e may also refer to: Commerce and transportation * €, the symbol for the euro, the European Union's standard currency unit * ℮, the estimated sign, an EU symbol indicating that the weigh ...

* 2004 Kenneth Olden * 2005 Barry S. Levy * 2006

Jonathan E. Fielding Jonathan Evan Fielding (born 1942) is a board-certified physician in both Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, and the former director and health officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. At UCLA, he is a Distinguished Prof ...

* 2007

Mohammad N. Akhter Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...

* 2008 John Murray Last * 2009 Robert S. Lawrence * 2010 William Schaffner * 2011

David Satcher David Satcher, (born March 2, 1941) is an American physician, and public health administrator. He was a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 10th Assistant Secretary for Health, and t ...

* 2012 Richard Joseph Jackson * 2013 Douglas Bernard Kirby * 2014 Howard K. Koh * 2015 Hortensia Amaro * 2016 Lawrence W. Green * 2017 José F. Cordero * 2018

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey (born September 25, 1954) is an American medical doctor and executive who served as president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2003 to 2017. She was the first woman and the first African-American to head t ...

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