William Foege - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Abraham Lilienfeld Award, American College of Epidemiology, 1990
• Fries Prize for Improving Health, James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation (formerly known as the Healthtrac Foundation), 1992
• Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association, 1993
• Frank A. Calderone Prize, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, 1996
• Honorary Doctor of Science, Harvard University, 1997
• Honorary Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 1997–present
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Pacific Lutheran University, 2000
• Wittenberg Award, The Luther Institute, 2001
• Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, 2001
• C.-E. A. Winslow Medal, Yale University, 2004
• Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health, University of Michigan, 2005
• Public Welfare Medal, United States National Academy of Sciences, 2005
• Honorary Doctor of Medical Sciences, Yale University, 2005
• Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, Sabin Vaccine Institute, 2006
• Julius B. Richmond Award, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006
• The William H. Foege building, named in his honor and dedicated in 2006, houses the University of Washington School of Medicine's Departments of Bioengineering and Genome Sciences.
• Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 2007
• Chosen as one of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report, 2007
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership, Research!America, 2008
• CDC Foundation Hero Award, 2009
• Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012
• Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2012