Lasker ~ Bloomberg Public Service Award
The Lasker ~ Bloomberg Public Service Award , Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award until 2009 , Albert Lasker Public Service Award until 2000 honors individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the legislation, funding, and positive public display of medical research and nonprofit health programs. It has been awarded by the Lasker Foundation irregularly since 1946, every two years since 2000 , and is endowed with 300,000 US dollars (as of 2009). The name was changed in 2000 in honor of the wife of the founder and long-time chairman of the foundation, Mary Woodard Lasker , and in 2011 in honor of Michael R. Bloomberg and his fight against the trivialization of tobacco smoking for economic reasons.
Award winners
- 2019 Gavi, the vaccination alliance
- 2017 Planned Parenthood
- 2015 Médecins Sans Frontières
- 2013 Bill Gates , Melinda Gates
- 2011 The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health
- 2009 Michael Bloomberg
- 2007 Anthony Fauci
- 2005 Nancy Brinker
- 2003 Christopher Reeve
- 2001 William Foege
- 2000 Betty Ford , Harold P. Freeman , David J. Mahoney , The Science Times of The New York Times , John Edward Porter
- 1995 Mark O. Hatfield
- 1993 Paul Grant Rogers , Nancy Wexler
- 1991 Robin Chandler Duke , Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
- 1989 Lewis Thomas
- 1988 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
- 1986 Ma Haide (George Hatem)
- 1985 Lane W. Adams , Ann Landers-Eppie Lederer
- 1984 Henry Heimlich
- 1983 Maurice R. Hilleman , Saul Krugman
- 1979 John Foster Wilson
- 1978 Elliot L. Richardson , Theodore Cooper
- 1976 World Health Organization
- 1975 Jules C. Stein
- 1973 Warren Magnuson
- 1968 Joseph Lister Hill
- 1967 Claude Pepper
- 1966 Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson
- 1963 Melvin R. Laird , Oren Harris
- 1960 John B. Grant , Abel Wolman
- 1959 Maurice Pate
- 1958 Basil O'Connor
- 1957 Frank G. Boudreau , CJ Van Slyke , Reginald M. Atwater
- 1956 William P. Shepard
- 1955 Robert D. Defries , The Menninger Foundation , Nursing Services of the US , United States Public Health Service , Pearl McIver , Margaret G. Arnstein
- 1954 Leona Baumgartner
- 1953 Felix J. Underwood , Earle B. Phelps
- 1952 G. Brock Chisholm , Howard A. Rusk
- 1951 Florence Rena Sabin
- 1950 Eugene Lindsay Bishop
- 1949 Marion W. Sheahan
- 1948 R. Eugene Dyer , Martha M. Eliot
- 1947 Alice Hamilton
- 1946 Alfred Newton Richards , Fred Lowe Soper