UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Contacts: Michael Broder, (510) 642-9572, mbroder@berkeley.edu
Linda Anderberg, (510) 643-4707, landerberg@berkeley.edu
Three public health heroes to receive award from UC Berkeley School of Public Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SAN FRANCISCO— A global health humanitarian, a community-building advocate, and a
provider of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services each will receive a 14th
annual Public Health Heroes Award from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health on March
24.
The awardees will receive an honor that is considered to be the only such prize given by a
university to recognize individuals and organizations for their efforts to build healthier lives in a
safer world. The three awardees are:
• Dr. Tom Lee, cofounder and director of Global Health Access Program, will receive the
International Public Health Hero award for his dedication to resolving the health crises in
Burma’s conflict zones and his leadership in defining new roles for community health workers
in inaccessible settings.
• Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, will receive the Regional Public
Health Hero award for her visionary work promoting equity in health policies and guiding
efforts to achieve healthy communities for everyone, especially in low income communities
and communities of color.
• La Clínica de La Raza will receive the Organizational Public Health Hero award for its
longstanding record of providing high quality, culturally sensitive health care services to
diverse and vulnerable communities in California’s Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano
Counties.
At a ceremony at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Richard Blum,
chairman of Blum Capital Partners, L.P., and co-chairman of Newbridge Capital, LLC, will
present Lee’s award; Dr. Anthony B. Iton, senior vice president, Healthy Communities at The
California Endowment, will