Calderone Prize

The Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health is the most prestigious award in the field of public health.^[1] It is given every two years by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health to an individual who has made a "transformational contribution" in the field.^[2] The award is named after Dr. Frank A. Calderone, who after serving as New York City deputy health commissioner, became a leading figure in the World Health Organization (WHO) in its formative years, where he "led a successful global cholera vaccination program."^[3] The first Calderone Prize was awarded in 1992.

Award[]

Established in 1986, the award is given to an individual who has "accomplished work of extraordinary distinction in the field of public health or made a specific discovery or contribution that has had long-term national or global implications in such areas as communicable disease, environmental health, epidemiology, social and/or behavioral medicine, health policy, or any aspect of health promotion or disease prevention."^[4]

Candidates are nominated and selected by a selection committee, chaired by the dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.^[5]

Laureates[]

Source: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Year	Laureate		Country of origin	Background
1992		C. Everett Koop	United States	Surgeon General of the United States Vice admiral in United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Senior Scholar, the C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth College
1994		Jonathan Mann	United States	Founding Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Administrator for the World Health Organization
1996		William Foege	United States	Senior Fellow, Health Policy at the Carter Center Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Senior Medical Advisor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
1999		D.A. Henderson	United States	Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Public Health and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Dean Emeritus and Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Founding Director, Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins University
2001		Nafis Sadik	Pakistan	Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
2003		Peter Piot	Belgium	Director, Institute of Global Health at Imperial College London Executive Director, UNAIDS Under Secretary-General, United Nations
2005		Mary Robinson	Ireland	President of Ireland United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Executive Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
2007		Allan Rosenfield	United States	Dean Emeritus, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health National chairman of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
2010		Susan Pardee Baker[6]	United States	Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Founding Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy
2011		Harvey V. Fineberg[7]	United States	President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health Provost of Harvard University President of the Institute of Medicine
2014		H. Jack Geiger[8]	United States	Founding member and president of Physicians for Human Rights Arthur C. Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, City University of New York Medical School/Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
2016		Mary T. Bassett[9]	United States	Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
2018		Julio Frenk[10]	Mexico	President of University of Miami Secretary of Health of Mexico Founding director-general of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico Executive director of evidence and information for policy at the World Health Organization

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External links[]

• Official website