rema lapouse award rema lapouse award rema lapouse award is granted to an outstanding scientist in the area of psychiatric epidemiology in recognition of "significant contributions to the scientific understanding of the epidemiology and control of mental disorders. it is sponsored by the mental health, epidemiology, and applied public health statistics sections of the american public health association. it was established in 1972 by the american physician milton terris in honor of his wife, dr. rema lapouse, who was a founding member of the mental health section. recipients 1972 – h. warren dunham 1973 – morton kramer 1974 – paul v. lemkau 1975 – alexander h. leighton 1976 – ernest m. gruenberg 1977 – benjamin pasamanick 1978 – olle hagnell 1979 – lee robins 1980 – norman sartorius 1981 – bruce dohrenwend and barbara snell dohrenwend 1982 – jerome k. myers 1983 – michael shepherd 1984 – ming tso tsuang 1985 – myrna weissman 1986 – michael rutter 1987 – darrel regier, m.d., m.p.h 1988 – janice egeland 1989 – evelyn j. bromet 1990 – ben locke, m.s. 1991 – john wing 1992 – r. jay turner 1993 – jane murphy leighton 1994 – george brown 1995 – dan offord 1996 – sheppard kellam 1997 – ronald c. kessler 1998 – spero m. manson 1999 – elizabeth jane costello 2000 – william w. eaton 2001 – dan german blazer 2002 – kenneth s. kendler 2003 – david mechanic 2004 – c. hendricks brown 2005 – mervyn susser 2006 – felton james earls 2007 – bruce g. link 2008 – terrie moffitt and avshalom caspi 2009 – glorisa canino 2010 – kung-yee liang (zh:梁赓义) 2011 – ezra susser 2012 – robert d. gibbons 2013 – william a. vega 2014 – patrick e. shrout 2015 – sandro galea 2016 - james c. (jim) anthony 2017 – kathleen merikangas 2018 – james s. jackson 2019 – denise bystryn kandel 2020 – margarita alegria 2021 – linda b. cottler 2022 - graham thornicroft other recipients no other known recipients.