Robert A. Crittenden

Dr. Crittenden received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. In his five decades of transformative health policy leadership and medical practice, Bob has built a legacy of health and health equity created by his remarkable multidisciplinary expertise in and unwavering commitments to clinical medicine, health policy, advocacy, and academia — all of which he has expertly leveraged to create and sustain just and efficient systems of health care. In this time of national reckoning on both public health and racial equality fronts, Bob’s visionary work in these arenas has built both a foundation and a blueprint for action from which inequalities can be reduced and health preparedness enhanced through legislative, advocacy, and policy levers.