Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence
Betsy Williams is the founder and co-chair of Emerging Public Leaders (EPL), which is building a new generation of civil service leaders in Africa to help accelerate Africa’s development and economic growth. EPL builds on the success of the President’s Young Professionals Program in Liberia, which Ms. Williams founded while working with then–Minister of Health Dr. Walter Winkle, seeing the country’s urgent need for a stronger civil service following two civil wars, and recognizing the potential of youth to drive that progress. Ms. Williams’ work has focused on the intersection of social development, foreign policy, and global health, having launched and supported innovative programs at USAID, JSI, Asia Society, and Physicians for Human Rights. She graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received her MPH from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she currently serves on the Board of Advisors.
Recipients of the Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence:
- 2025: Betsy Helen Williams, MPH’02
- 2024: Kathleen Crowley, DrPH’13, MPH’91, PA-C and Gail Emrick, MPH’87, MIA'87
- 2022: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
- 2021: Dr. Melanie Bernitz, Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Dr. Donna Lynne
- 2020: Leslie M. Kantor, PhD, MPH
- 2018: M. Monica Sweeney, MD, MPH, FACP
- 2017: Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH '03
- 2016: John A. MacPhee, MBA, MPH '12
- 2015: Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, DrPH '87, MD '79, ScD '74
- 2014: Sten H. Vermund, MD, MPhil '87, PhD '90
- 2013: Ilise Zimmerman, MS '79, MPH '79
- 2012: David Michaels, MPH '81, PhD '87
- 2011: Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim, MD '89
- 2010: James T. Harden, MBA '78, MPH '83
- 2009: Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH '85
- 2008: Michael H. Barnett, JD, MS '70
- 2007: Nancy R. Barhydt, RN, DrPH '79
To submit a nomination for the Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award, or for questions, please email us.