Macy Awards
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards for Excellence in Social Mission awards reflect a shared vision and partnership between the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Social Mission Alliance. Each award serves as a physical representation of individual/group dedication to challenge, reform and renew social mission though educational efforts that reduce health disparities, and/or promote community engagement, diversity, value-based care and access for all.
Awards are granted in the following categories:
- Fitzhugh Mullan Rising Star (student, resident, fellow, or early-career faculty)
- Holly J. Humphrey Individual Excellence (mid-career)**
- Lifetime Achievement (late-career or retired/emeritus)
- Program Excellence (smaller entities, such as residency programs or specialized training tracks)
- Institution Excellence (large organizations, e.g., schools, academic health centers, university-wide initiatives, healthcare delivery organizations)
2026 Awardees
Fitzhugh Mullan Rising Star
Ayomide Ojebuoboh
Ayomide Ojebuoboh is an artist and MD-PhD student at the University of Minnesota whose visionary leadership advances the social mission of health professions education. Throughout her time in medical school, she founded interprofessional initiatives such as the Community Health Equity Fellowship and the Health Justice Teach-In Series, bringing together students, artists, and community organizers working towards health justice. In her current home of Minneapolis, Ayomide partners with the caretakers of George Floyd Square to foster community-centered dialogue and wellness grounded in resistance and restoration. Her work spanning patient-centered online platforms, national publications, and the award-winning film We Belong: Navigating Medical School as Black Women, embodies the moral courage and social accountability essential to the future of healthcare.
Holly J. Humphrey Individual Excellence
Monica Hahn, MD, MPH
Dr. Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS, is a national leader who has advanced the social mission of health professions education through justice-centered teaching, transformative mentorship, and innovative interprofessional programming. At UCSF, she integrates cultural humility, critical consciousness, and community partnership into medical training, most notably through her course Dismantling Systems of Oppression and her Community Grand Rounds model, which brings learners together with patients and community healers in restorative dialogue. As Clinical Director of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center and Medical Director of HIVE Clinic, she has led interprofessional initiatives that unite physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and community health workers to strengthen HIV care systems locally and across the Pacific Islands. Embodying true love, integrity, and justice in her work, she has equipped thousands of health professionals to deliver compassionate, equity-centered care while mentoring a generation of leaders committed to advancing health justice nationwide.
Lifetime Achievement
Reed Tuckson, MD, FACP
Throughout his career, Dr. Reed V. Tuckson has demonstrated visionary and humane leadership in medicine and public health, guided by an unwavering commitment to health equity, ethics, and social mission. Over decades of public, corporate, nonprofit, academic and community leadership spanning the DC Health Department, United Health Group, AMA, March of Dimes, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science to name a few, Dr. Tuckson has advanced the idea that medicine, public health, education, and communication are a shared enterprise rooted in trust and respect. Dr. Tuckson has shaped generations of leaders and institutions by modeling servant leadership grounded in integrity, compassion, and an unshakable belief in the value of human life. As the co-founder and chair of the Coalition for Trust in Health & Science, he now draws evidence, empathy, and moral clarity together to address some of the most complex challenges facing health and science today.
Program Excellence
PreHealth Dreamers
Pre-Health Dreamers (PHD) is the sole national network dedicated to empowering undocumented students to pursue careers in healthcare. With over 1000 members, their innovative approach combines community-building, resources, and advocacy to dismantle immigration-related barriers to professional pathways, addressing systemic exclusion in a way that no other organization does. Pre-Health Dreamers addresses a critical gap at the intersection of immigration, higher education, health, and economic mobility. As a strong advocate for inclusive policies, PHD trains educators to support undocumented students and empowers students to equip each other with tools to navigate complex systems. PHD’s scholar-leaders, who are undocumented students themselves, create pathways for their peers and future generations as they forge ahead, strengthening the healthcare system by ensuring it reflects the communities it serves. Undocumented trainees across the health professions bring diverse language abilities and cultural wealth that improve health outcomes and patient experiences.
Institutional Excellence
City University of New York School of Medicine
Located in Harlem, CUNY Medicine houses an iconic 7-year BS/MD program and one of the nation’s oldest Physician Assistant programs. Under Dr. Carmen Renée Green’s leadership as Dean and President, it leads New York and the nation in producing medical professionals traditionally under-represented in medicine. Dr. Green’s groundbreaking research and vision of inclusive excellence focuses on developing strategies to address the social determinants of health and medical education to eliminate inequities in our time. Expanding upon the Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education founding principles to increase pathways to medical education, access and affordability remain Dean Green’s priority in the years ahead, as the national physician shortage is estimated to reach 86,000 by 2036.
Awardees will receive a monetary prize, travel and lodging to the conference, and a crystal award acknowledging their achievement. Nominees should be working interprofessionally as innovators in health professions education who are invested in bringing change and should be exemplars of social mission.
The intended outcome of this award program is the increased recognition of institutions, programs, and people who are doing extraordinary work promoting social mission in health professions education. This recognition gives greater visibility to these projects and the Social Mission Alliance movement as a whole. In the process, the awards program has become a centerpiece of the national conference, celebrating the works of people and programs achieving social mission goals.
Applicants are encouraged to email 2026 Conference Awards Staff with any questions (info@socialmission.org).
Previous Winners
Read more about the previous winners.
Fitzhugh Mullan Rising Star
- Alec J. Calac (2024)
- Bernadette Lim (2022)
- Robert Rock (2021)
Lifetime Achievement
- Caswell A. Evans Jr. (2024)
- Uta Landy (2022)
- George Blue Spruce Jr. (2021)
- Loretta C. Ford (2018)
- H. Jack Geiger (2016)
Individual Excellence
- Lisa Meeks (2024)
- Brigit Carter (2022)
- Joseph Kiesler (2021)
- Neal A. Demby (2018)
- Thomas F. Curtin (2016)
Institutional Excellence
- The University of New Mexico (2024)
- East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine (2022)
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (2021)
- Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (2018)
- Morehouse School of Medicine (2016)
Program Excellence
- Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity (2024)
- Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (2021)
- Residency Program in Social Medicine Montefiore Medical Center (2018)
- Putting Families First: An Interprofessional Family Health Experience (2016)
