The first Hansen Award was granted in 2001. Click on each recipient for more information, including a video of the recipients Hansen Lecture.

• 2020 – Marian Wright Edelman
• 2019 – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
• 2018 – Bernard J. Tyson
• 2017 – Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
• 2016 – Leana Wen, MD, MSc
• 2015 – Byllye Avery, MA
• 2014 – William Foege, MD, MPH
• 2013 – Martín-J. Sepúlveda, MD, FACP
• 2012 – Mary Story, PhD, RD
• 2011 – Kenneth Olden, PhD, ScD, LHD
• 2010 – Ed Wagner, MD, MPH
• 2009 – Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA
• 2008 – Jordan J. Cohen, MD
• 2007 – Steven A. Schroeder, MD
• 2006 – Richard J. Davidson, PhD
• 2005 – Sara Rosenbaum, JD
• 2004 – Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH
• 2003 – Michael T. Osterholm, PhD
• 2002 – Kenneth E. Warner, PhD
• 2001 – U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)