Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award


The Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award, known from 1946 until 2000 as the Albert Lasker Public Service Award and then from 2000 until 2009 as the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award, is one of four Lasker Awards awarded by the Lasker Foundation to honor an individual or organization whose public service has profoundly enlarged the possibilities for medical research and the health sciences and their impact on the health of the public.
The award carries an honorarium of $250,000. It is presented to a winner selected from among policy makers, journalists, philanthropists, advocates, scientists, and public health professionals.
The award is named for the philanthropists Albert Lasker and Michael R. Bloomberg. Initially known as the Albert Lasker Public Service Award, it was known from 2000 to 2009 as the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award in honour of Albert Lasker's wife.
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