1977
Perspectives on the Health of the Black Populations
Floyd McKissick, J.D.
President, Soul City Company
Soul City, North Carolina

1978
Health Policy Impacts: On and By Minority Peoples
John L.S. Holloman, M.D.
Past President, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
New York, New York

1979
Reaching Minorities Where They Are: A Challenge to Health Professionals
Bailus Walker, Jr., Ph.D.
Administrator, Environmental Health Administration
Government of the District of Columbia

1980
The Deprivation of Life: Death and Disease in Minority Communities
E. Frank Ellis, M.D., M.P.H.
Regional Health Administrator, DHHS, Region V
Chicago, Illinois

1981
Dying for a Job:  Health Status of Minorities in the Workplace
George L. Lythcott, M.D.
Special Assistant to the Surgeon General
U.S. Public Health Service, DHHS
Rockville, Maryland

1982
The Minority Elderly — We're Still Here
Theodore R. Sherrod, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Illinois at Chicago

1983
Quality Health Care: A Birthright?
Clay E. Simpson, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Disadvantaged Assistance
Bureau of Health Professionals
Health Resources and
Services Administration
Hyattsville, Maryland

1984
Fact vs Fiction:  Crisis In the Workplace
Aileen T. Compton, Ph.D.
Manager, Health Safety and Environmental Affairs
Research and Development
Smith Kline and French Laboratories
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1985
Current Issues In International Health Care Practice
John W. Hatch, Dr.P.H.
Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1986
Policy Implications for Improving Health In Minority Communities
Charles Cook, M.D.
Former Chief, Adult Health Section
NC Department of Human Resources
Raleigh, North Carolina

1987
Healthy Lifestyles:  Preserving the Public’s Health
Jesse F. Williams, M.D.
Director, Cumberland County Health Department
Fayetteville, North Carolina

1988
Improving Minority Health Status: A Public Health Challenge
Iris Shannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Rush College of Nursing
St. Lukes Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois

1991
Innovative Approaches to Minority Health Issues
Ronald Ferguson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Policy
The Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

1992
Beyond the Rhetoric:  Developing Solutions to Minority Health Issues
Deborah L. Coates, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Healthier Babies
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
White Plains, New York

1993
Operation Prevention:  Mobilizing Community Action
Spencer Holland, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Educating African-American Males
Morgan State University

1994
Youth and Families of Color:  What’s Going On?
Linda A. Randolph, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical Professor, Department of Community Medicine
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York

1995
Healthy People of Color 2000: Are We On Track?
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia

1996
Healthy People of Color 2000: Intervention Strategies
Byllye Avery, M.Ed.
Founder and Past President, National Black Women’s Health Project
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Helen Rodriguez-Trias, M.D.
President’s Commission on Teen Pregnancy
Past President, American Public Health Association

1997
Communities of Color Fighting Back: Our Role in the Cancer Crisis
Gerald Durley, Ed.D., M.Div.
Director, Health Promotion Research Center
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

1998
The Many Faces of Violence: Strategies for Prevention in the New Millennium
W. Rodney Hammond, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Violence Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1999
Raising Resilient Children: How Communities of Color Respond to the Challenge
Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Health
Department of Behavioral Sciences & Health Education
Director, Institute for Minority Health Research
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

2000
Public Health 2000: Reflections on the Past, Directions for the Future
Keith A. Wailoo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of History and Social Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2001
Race, Class, and Environment:  The State of Minority Health
Richard Moore
Chair, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the EPA & Coordinator, Southwest Network.

2002
Social Determinants of Health: Assembling Pieces of the Puzzle
Sherman A. James, Ph.D.
John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health and Chair Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
University of Michigan.

2003
The Evolution of Health Policy: Influences, Interpretations and Implications
Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D
Research Director on Social Determinants of Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention