APHA Executive Director's Citation

The APHA Executive Director's Citation is presented to an APHA member for that member's exceptional distinguished service to the Association. Meritorious candidates will be nominated by the executive director and confirmed by the APHA Executive Board. 

Previous Winners

2025    Staff of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Current and In Exile
2024    C. William Keck, MD, MPH
2023    Robert Ross, MD, MPA
2022    Sara Rosenbaum, JD
2021    J. Alan Baker
2020    Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
2019    Barbara E. Giloth, DrPH, MPH
2018    Terri D. Wright, PhD, MPH
2017    Ayman A.E. El-Mohandes, MBBch, MSc, MD
2016    Joyce R. Gaufin
2015    Burton Wilcke, Jr., PhD
2014    Jonas Salk, MD, FAPHA (Posthumously)
2013    Shelley A. Hearne, DrPH
2012    Jeffrey Levi, PhD
2011    Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN
2010    Lyndon Haviland, DrPH, MPH
2009    Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, RN
2008    Melvin D. Shipp, OD, DrPH, MPH
2007    Alan R. Hinman, MD, MPH
2006    Elizabeth Zelazek, RN, MS
2005    Omar A. Khan, MD
2004    Louise A. Anderson, MSN, RN
2003    Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2002    Gerald M. Eggert, PhD, MSW
2001    Marvin J. Rubin, DPM
2000    Beth Benedict, RN, DrPH, JD
1999    Patricia D. Mail, MPH, DrPH, JD
1998    Shirley F. Randolph, MSPH
1997    Margaret Beaman, PhD, RN
1996    Berttina B. Wentworth, PhD
1995    George Hardy Jr., MD, MPH
1994    Herbert Semmel, JD