Celebrating Public Health

Each year, the Journal publishes Clinical Implications of Basic Research (CIBR) articles to coincide with the announcements of two awards, the Lasker Awards for Basic Medical Research and for Clinical Medical Research. These awards celebrate the best in science and medicine, discoveries that have either altered the way we practice (like, this year, the work that has led to the widespread use of GLP-1 agonists to treat obesity and related diseases)¹ or point the way to further breakthroughs (like the discovery of cGAS–STING–mediated DNA sensing).² Covering the Lasker Awards each year has allowed us to feature the critical interplay between basic science and medicine.

But there is another award, the Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award. Whereas the two...