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Next, we approached the American Public Health Association to cooperate in giving two awards in the field of major diseases and one award for outstanding administrative contributions in the field of public health. Also, we offered one special award of $2500 to be available as a part of this series of awards. These awards through the American Public Health Association, a voluntary “trade” association, were started in 1945. A year or two later we established an award for outstanding reporting in medical journalism, and a few years after that an award for outstanding contributions in the field of heart research through the American Heart Association.

The final group of awards we gave was through the International Rehabilitation Society, and is given only every two or three years in the field of rehabilitation. Initially, the awards were a thousand dollars each, plus a statuette of “Winged Victory,” but now, as of 1963, we have changed the organization of the awards and we are giving one award in basic research and one award in clinical research, with a jury appointed by the Lasker Foundation, and these awards consist of $10,000 each, a statuette of the “Winged Victory,” and a citation. And the awards through the Public Health Association and the American Heart Association have been abolished. We still give awards from time to time through the Planned Parenthood Federation, and we still give medical journalism awards decided on by juries appointed by the Lasker Foundation and by my sister and me, and we still give the awards through the International Rehabilitatioin Society as a result of our deep sympathy for the efforts of Howard Rusk, who