The Sedgwick Memorial Medal, given by the American Public Health Association, was established in 1929 for distinguished service and advancement of public health 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 1930 Theobald Smith 1931 George W. McCoy 1932 William H. Park 1933 Milton J. Rosenau 1934 Edwin O. Jordon 1935 Haven Emerson 1936 Frederick F. Russell 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 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 1958 Martha May Eliot 1959 Louis I. Dublin 1960 Fred T. Foard 1961 Frank G. Boudreau 1962 Ira V. Hiscock 1963 Gaylord W. Anderson 1964 Leona Baumgartner 1965 Willimina R. Walsh 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 Sydney Falk 1974 Myron E. Wegman 1975 Leroy Edgar Burney 1976 Malcolm H. Merrill 1977 Lester Breslow 1978 M. Allen Pond 1979 Doris E. Roberts 1980 Lorin E. Kerr 1981 Dwight F. Metzler 1982 C. Rufus Rorem 1983 Milton I. Roemer 1984 Milton Terris 1985 Henrik L. Blum 1986 C. Arden Miller 1987 Larry J. Gordon 1988 Dorothy P. Rice 1989 Clarence L. Brumback 1990 Cecil G. Sheps 1991 Ruth Roemer 1992 Julius B. Richmond 1993 William H. Foege 1994 William H. McBeath 1995 Joyce Lashof 1996 Leonard Schuman 1997 Victor W. Sidel 1998 H. Jack Geiger 1999 Avedis Donabedian 2000 Philip R. Lee 2001 Myron Allukian 2002 C. William Keck 2003 E. Richard Brown 2004 Kenneth Olden 2005 Barry S. Levy 2006 Jonathan E. Fielding 2007 Mohammad N. Akhter 2008 John Murray Last 2009 Robert S. Lawrence 2010 William Schaffner 2011 David Satcher 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 2019 F. Douglas Scutchfield 2020 Robert K. Ross 2021 Oliver T. Fein 2022 Wafaa El-Sadr

See also

List of medicine awards

References