Zackie Achmat and Reed V. Tuckson selected as recipients for the CDC Foundation Fries Awards for Health.

Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP, receives the 2024 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Nobel Prize Winner Katalin Karikó, PhD, and former CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, MD (RADM, USPHS, RET), received the 2023 Fries Prize for Improving Health.

Camara Phyllis Jones receives the 2023 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

ASTHO, BCHC and NACCHO receive the 2021 Fries Prize for Improving Health.

Barbara A. Israel, a health equity advocate, receives the 2022 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Spero M. Manson, a leading authority with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native health, received the 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Robert Kaplan, PhD, a renowned authority in healthcare and health services research was awarded the 2020 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, a distinguished scholar in the fields of public health nutrition and health disparities research was awarded the 2019 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S., today received the 2016 Fries Prize for Improving Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for his pioneering research and decades of advocacy on the negative impacts of air pollution on health.  

Andrea C. Gielen, Sc.D, Sc.M., a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who has dedicated her career to improving the health and safety of women and children, receives the 2016 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Mathuram Santosham, M.D., M.P.H., received the Fries Prize for Improving Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for his research and contribution in fighting the deadly Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease.

Victor Strecher, Ph.D., M.P.H., today was presented with the 2014 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). The James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation honored Strecher for pioneering the development of computer tailored health programs that have transformed the way people learn about and manage their health.

$1.6 million project will build upon topics in Healthy People 2020 initiative.

Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., today received the Fries Prize for Improving Health for his first discoveries of the lifesaving benefits of aspirin.

CDC Foundation to administer awards recognizing individuals for achievements and education advancements to improve public health.

To recognize a health educator who has made a substantial contribution to advancing the field of health education or health promotion through research, program development or program delivery.