Kenneth E. Behring
Wheelchair Foundation & WaterLeaders Foundation founder

Marion Nestle, Ph.D, M.P.H.
Professor and food policy expert

Washington Burns, M.D.
West Oakland, Calif., community builder

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
Homeless service organization

Tom Lee, M.D.
Leader of efforts to bring care to remote & inaccessible regions

Angela Glover Blackwell, J.D.
Community-building advocate & health policy visionary

La Clínica de la Raza
Culturally sensitive health care provider

Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical anthropologist & physician for the impoverished

John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Health outcomes scholar

Betty Moore
Nursing care advocate

WiRED International
Technology and health information provider

Donald P. Francis, M.D., D.Sc.
Epidemiologist who helped discover HIV

David A. Kessler, M.D.
Former FDA chief and anti-tobacco champion

Barbara Staggers, M.D., M.P.H.
Physician and expert in adolescent medicine

International Medical Corps
Provider of medical relief in the world's most poverty-stricken, remote, and dangerous environments

D.A. Henderson M.D., M.P.H.
Leader of World Health Organization effort to eradicate smallpox worldwide

Dean Ornish M.D.
Diet and lifestyle educator

David J. Kears, M.S.W.
Leader in expanding access to care for those most in need of mental health, alcohol, drug, public health, environmental health, and medical services in Alameda County

Chinese Hospital
Culturally competent provider of health services to the Chinese American community

Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D.
Director of the U.N. Millennium Project to halve global poverty and hunger by 2015

Norman McSwain, M.D.
Trauma director, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, on behalf of the unsung heroes of Hurricane Katrina

Robert Scott, M.D.
Oakland physician specializing in treating HIV/AIDS

San Francisco Free Clinic
Provider of health care services to uninsured patients who do not qualify for federal or state aid

Ciro de Quadros, M.D., M.P.H.
Pioneer in infectious disease surveillance and containment

Sarah Weddington, J.D.
Defender of women's rights who argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court

Pacific Business Group on Health
Nonprofit coalition of employers dedicated to improving health care quality

Larry Brilliant, M.D., M.P.H.
Founder and former chair, Seva Foundation, and executive director, Google.org

Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, University of California, San Francis

Dolores Huerta
Co-Founder of United Farmworkers Movement

The East Bay's Health Departments
Alameda County Public Health Department, Contra Costa Health Services, and the City of Berkeley Public Health Division

Ela Bhatt, Founder
Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association, India

Gordon Belcourt, M.P.H.
Executive director, Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council and Area Indian Health Board

Lester Breslow, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA professor emeritus and author of "Seven Healthy Habits"

Homeless Prenatal Program
Provider of critical health care to new mothers and families

Zafrullah Chowdhury, M.B.B.S.
Health care advocate, especially for women, in Bangladesh

Philip Randolph Lee, M.D.
Former assistant secretary of health and human services and former chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco

Rob Reiner
Actor, director, and founder of Parents' Action for Children (formerly I Am Your Child Foundation)

On Lok
An innovative and comprehensive system of health care for seniors

Karl M. Johnson, M.D.
Internationally recognized virus hunter responsible for identifying Ebola virus

H. Jack Geiger, M.D., M.P.H.
Pioneer of the neighborhood health center movement and early advocate of human rights as a health issue

Billie Weiss, M.P.H.
Leading expert on injury and violence prevention

San Francisco Department of Public Health
Organizational leader in the 20-year fight against HIV/AIDS

Sir Richard Doll, M.D., D.Sc., D.M.
World-renowned epidemiologist and cancer researcher

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
Former president of Morehouse School of Medicine and former secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services

Pamela Arbuckle, D.D.S., M.P.P.
Community dental health provider, Alameda County

Kaiser Permanente
The nation's largest non-profit provider of integrated health services

Carol Bellamy, J.D.
Former executive director, UNICEF, and former director of the Peace Corps

Mark Rothstein, J.D.
Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law, University of Louisville School of Medicine

L. Martin Griffin, M.D., M.P.H.
Environmentalist and coastal protectionist

Glide Memorial Church
San Francisco's most comprehensive nonprofit provider of human services

Rodrigo Guerrero, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Former mayor of Cali, Colombia, and anti-drug activist

Laurie Garrett
Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and best-selling author

Dorothy P. Rice, Ph.D.
Pioneer in the field of health economics research

Family Violence Prevention Fund
Anti-domestic violence organization founded by Esta Soler

Kritaya Archavanitkul, Ph.D.
Researcher and human rights activist, Southeast Asia

William Foege, M.D.
Former CDC director who led worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox

Stanton Glantz, Ph.D.
Renowned UCSF researcher and anti-tobacco activist

The Breast Cancer Fund
National advocacy organization founded by Andrea Martin