The Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award, known until 2009 as the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award, is awarded by the Lasker Foundation to honor an individual or organization whose public service has profoundly enlarged the possibilities for medical research and the health sciences and their impact on the health of the public. The award, worth $250,000, is presented in odd-numbered years to a winner selected from among policy makers, journalists, philanthropists, advocates, scientists, and public health professionals. It is named after the philanthropists Albert Lasker and

Michael R. Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner, co-founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P. He was Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a ca ...

. Initially known as the Albert Lasker Public Service Award, it was known from 2000-09 as the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award in honour of his wife.

Winners

Source: Lasker Foundation
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*2015 Médecins Sans Frontières *2013 Bill Gates and Melinda Gates *2011 The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health *2009

Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner, co-founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P. He was Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a ca ...

*2007

Anthony Fauci Anthony Stephen Fauci (; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to the president. ...

*2005 Nancy Brinker *2003 Christopher Reeve *2001 William Foege *2000 Betty Ford, Harold P. Freeman,

David J. Mahoney David Joseph Mahoney Jr. (May 17, 1923 – May 1, 2000) was an American CEO and author. Early life and education David Joseph Mahoney Jr. was born of first generation Irish–American parents in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx, New York. H ...

, The Science Times of The New York Times and John Edward Porter *1995

Mark O. Hatfield Mark Odom Hatfield (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011) was 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 Appropr ...

*1993

Paul G. 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 distr ...

and Nancy Wexler *1991 Robin Chandler Duke and Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. *1989 Lewis Thomas *1988

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 the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He was ...

*1986 Ma Haide ( George Hatem) *1985 Lane W. Adams and Ann Landers ( Eppie Lederer) *1984 Henry J. Heimlich *1983

Maurice R. Hilleman Maurice Ralph Hilleman (August 30, 1919 – April 11, 2005) was a leading American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, an unparalleled record of productivity. According to one estimate, his vaccines ...

and

Saul Krugman Saul Krugman (April 7, 1911 – October 26, 1995) was a physician, and later pediatrician, whose studies of hepatitis, rubella, and measles resulted in the development of vaccinations for these debilitating diseases. The results of these studi ...

*1979

John Foster Wilson __NOTOC__ Sir John Foster Wilson CBE (20 January 1919 – 25 November 1999) was a British public health advocate, best known for working to prevent blindness in developing countries in Africa and South and South East Asia. Early life and back ...

*1978

Elliot L. Richardson Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and public servant 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 Watergat ...

and Theodore Cooper *1976 World Health Organization *1975 Jules C. Stein *1973 Warren Magnuson *1968 Lister Hill *1967 Claude Pepper *1966 Eunice Kennedy Shriver *1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson *1963

Melvin R. Laird Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (September 1, 1922 – November 16, 2016) was an American politician, writer and statesman. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under Presi ...

and Oren Harris *1960 John B. Grant and Abel Wolman *1959

Maurice Pate Maurice Pate (October 14, 1894 – January 19, 1965) was an American humanitarian and businessman. Pate served as the first executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) from 1947 until his death in 1965, after being proposed by ...

*1958 Basil O'Connor *1957

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, C.J. Van Slyke and Reginald M. Atwater *1956 William P. Shepard *1955 Robert D. Defries, The Menninger Foundation,

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of the U.S. Public Health Service, Pearl McIver and

Margaret G. Arnstein Margaret G. Arnstein (October 27, 1904 – October 9, 1972) was an American health expert who focused her efforts in nursing and public health. Throughout her life Arnstein worked for the United States public health sector and several American col ...

*1954

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 ...

*1953 Felix J. Underwood and

Earle B. Phelps Earle Bernard Phelps (July 10, 1876 – May 29, 1953) was a chemist, bacteriologist and sanitary expert who served in governmental positions and as an academic in some of the leading universities in the U.S. He is known for his contributions in se ...

*1952

G. Brock Chisholm George Brock Chisholm (18 May 1896 – 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He was the 13th Canadian Surgeon General and t ...

and

Howard A. Rusk Howard A. Rusk (April 9, 1901 – November 4, 1989) was a prominent physician and founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. He is considered to be the founder of rehabilitation medicine. Born in Brookfield, Missouri, Rusk was act ...

*1951

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 el ...

*1950

Eugene Lindsay Bishop Eugene Lindsay Bishop (1886-1951) was an American physician who 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 (TVA) from ...

*1949

Marion W. Sheahan Marion Winifred Sheahan (September 5, 1892 – March 17, 1994) was a public health nurse and administrator whose advocacy work helped guide nursing's response to societal changes. Sheahan was Executive Director of the National Committee for the ...

*1948 R.E. Dyer and Martha M. Eliot *1947 Alice Hamilton *1946

Alfred Newton Richards Alfred Newton Richards (March 22, 1876 – March 24, 1966) was an American pharmacologist. Richards, along with Wearn, is credited with the method of renal micropuncture to study the functioning of kidneys in 1924. Career Richards was born in ...

and

Fred L. 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 191He rec ...

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{{cite web, title=The Lasker Foundation - Awards, url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/formerwin.htm - Official Site Humanitarian and service awards Lasker Award

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