Kenneth E. Behring (left), founder of the Wheelchair Foundation and the WaterLeaders Foundation, accepts the International Public Health Hero award from Richard D. King, past president of Rotary International.

Alice Waters (left), executive chef, founder, and owner of Chez Panisse and founder of The Edible Schoolyard, presents the National Public Health Hero award to Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University.

Dr. Washington Burns (left), executive director of the Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, accepts the Regional Public Health Hero award from Dr. Tony Iton, senior vice president, Healthy Communities, The California Endowment.

Sylvia Yee (left), vice president of programs for the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, presents the Organizational Public Health Hero Award to boona cheema, accepting on behalf of Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS).

Dean Stephen Shortell (far left) and Assistant Dean Pat Hosel (second from left) greet Kenneth E. Behring (far right) and his wife, Patricia R. Behring.

UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer (right) and his wife, Yvette Breslauer

Left to right: Raymond J. Baxter, senior vice president for community benefit, research and health policy, Kaiser Permanente; Jane Garcia, CEO of La Clínica de La Raza; and Loel Solomon, national director of Community Health Initiatives, Kaiser Permanente

Donald P. Francis (center), chair of The Campaign for the School of Public Health; his son Steve Francis (left), a graduate student at the School of Public Health; and former School of Public Health Dean Edward E. Penhoet

Barbara Terrazas, a member of the School of Public Health's Policy Advisory Council, and her husband, Alfredo Terrazas