The William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research is an award acknowledging contributions to

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research. It is funded by the

Baxter International Baxter International Inc. is an American multinational healthcare company with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. The company primarily focuses on products to treat kidney disease, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. The company ...

Foundation, and awarded every year through the US-based

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(AUPHA). The recipient is awarded $25,000, with another $25,000 given to a non-profit institution selected by him or her. Until 2005, the prize was named ''The Baxter International Foundation Prize for Health Services Research''. It was renamed in 2006, after the death of long-time

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of Baxter International, William B. Graham.

List of recipients

The Baxter International Foundation Prize

* 1986:

Avedis Donabedian Avedis Donabedian (7 January 1919 – 9 November 2000) was a physician and founder of the study of quality in health care and medical outcomes research, most famously as a creator of The Donabedian Model of care. Early life Avedis Donabedian ...

''The Journal of Health Administration Education'', accessed via

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{{cite book , editor=Ross M. Mullner , title=Encyclopedia of Health Services Research , publisher=Sage , location=London , year=2009 , ISBN=9781452266114 * 1987:

Brian Abel-Smith Brian Abel-Smith (6 November 1926 – 4 April 1996) was a British economist and expert adviser and one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century in shaping health and social welfare. In Britain, his research for the Guillebaud c ...

* 1988:

Joseph Newhouse Joseph P. Newhouse (born February 24, 1942) is an American economist and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, as well as the Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and of the Inter ...

and Robert H. Brook * 1989: M. Eisenberg * 1990: Rosemary A. Stevens * 1991:

Victor Fuchs Victor Robert Fuchs (born January 31, 1924) is an American health economist. Career He is an emeritus professor at Stanford University. Since 1962, he has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is the co-direc ...

* 1992: John D. Thompson and Robert B. Fetter * 1993:

John Wennberg John E. "Jack" Wennberg (born June 2, 1934) is the pioneer and leading researcher of unwarranted variation in the healthcare industry. In four decades of work, Wennberg has documented the geographic variation in the healthcare that patients receive ...

* 1994:

Alain Enthoven Alain C. Enthoven (born September 10, 1930) is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently, he is Marriner ...

* 1995: Stephen M. Shortell * 1996: Kerr L. White * 1997:

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* 1998: Harold S. Luft * 1999: Ronald Andersen and Odin W. Anderson * 2000: Karen Davis * 2001: Robert G. Evans * 2002: John M. Eisenberg (awarded posthumously) * 2003: ''(unknown)'' * 2004:

Barbara Starfield Barbara Starfield (Brooklyn - New York City, December 18, 1932 / Menlo Park - California, June 10, 2011) was an American pediatrician. She was an advocate for primary health care worldwide. Her academic and professional life was almost fully ded ...

* 2005:

David Sackett David Lawrence Sackett (November 17, 1934 – May 13, 2015) was an American-Canadian physician and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He is known as one of the fathers of Evidence-Based Medicine. He founded the first department of clinical ...

William B. Graham Prize

* 2006:

Linda Aiken Linda H. Aiken, (born July 29, 1943) is an American nurse and researcher who is currently the Director for the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She also is th ...

* 2007:

Donald Berwick Donald M. Berwick (born September 9, 1946) is a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to his work in the administration, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare I ...

* 2008:

Michael Marmot Sir Michael Gideon Marmot (born 26 February 1945) is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He is currently the Director of The UCL Institute of Health Equity. Marmot has led research groups on health inequa ...

* 2009:

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* 2010:

Uwe Reinhardt Uwe Ernst Reinhardt (September 24, 1937 – November 14, 2017) was a professor of political economy at Princeton University and held several positions in the healthcare industry. Reinhardt was a prominent scholar in health care economics and a fre ...

* 2011: Edward H. Wagner * 2012: Mark V. Pauly * 2013: Dorothy P. Rice * 2014:

Stuart Altman Stuart H. Altman (born August 8, 1937) is an American economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. He is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University, in the ...

* 2015: Anthony Culyer and

Alan Maynard Alan Keith Maynard (15 December 1944 – 2 February 2018) was a British health economist. Biography Born in Bebington, Maynard studied at the Universities of University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne and University of York, York. A ...

* 2016:

John K. Iglehart John K. Iglehart is the founding editor of ''Health Affairs''. He was also the national correspondent of ''The New England Journal of Medicine''.

* 2017: David Blumenthal2017 Prize Winners Announced
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References

External links

The William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research
– Website of the Baxter International Foundation Medicine awards American science and technology awards Baxter International

List of recipients

The Baxter International Foundation Prize

William B. Graham Prize

See also

References

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