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

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