The David Rall Medal is an award given annually by the

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of the

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to one of its members who "...has demonstrated distinguished leadership as chair of a study committee or other such activity, showing commitment above and beyond the usual responsibilities of the position." It is named in honor of the late

David Rall David Platt Rall (August 3, 1926 – September 28, 1999) was a cancer specialist and a leader in environmental health studies, whose work in environmental health helped turn it into a scientific discipline. Rall also advanced public health and pr ...

, the former director of the

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. The first award was given in 2000.

Recipients

*2000 - Stuart Bondurant *2001 - Dorothy P. Rice *2002 -

Joshua Lederberg Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...

*2003 - Daniel Federman *2004 -

Marie McCormick Marie Clare McCormick (born 1946) is an American pediatrician and Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Ma ...

*2005 - Torsten N. Wiesel *2006 - Fitzhugh Mullan *2007 -

William C. Richardson William Chase Richardson (May 11, 1940 – May 18, 2021) received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College (Connecticut) and a Master in Business Administration degree (1964) and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1971).Stacy Hanna, "'I ...

*2008 - Sheila Burke *2009 - Bernard Guyer *2010 - Nancy Adler *2011 - Virginia Stallings *2012 -

Linda Rosenstock Linda Rosenstock is a public health specialist and administrator. She served as the director for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1994 through 2000 and was dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of P ...

*2013 -

Ellen Wright Clayton Ellen Wright Clayton is an American academic specialzing in law and medicine. She is the Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics at Vanderbilt University and chairwoman of the Institute of Medicine Board at the Population Health and Public Hea ...

*2014 - Richard B. Johnston, Jr. *2015 - Jonathan Samet *2016 -

Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Presid ...

*2017 - Richard O. Hynes *2018 -

Hedvig Hricak Hedvig Hricak was born in 1946, in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia and earned her MD degree from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1970. She has been Chairman of the Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...

*2019 - David Savitz *2020 - David Eaton

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