Claude Pepper Award for Advancing Healthy Aging

Partner Organization: Alliance for Aging Research

Overview:
The Claude Pepper Foundation has provided support to the Alliance for Aging Research since 2005 through the Claude Pepper Award for Advancing Healthy Aging. This award is presented annually at the Alliance for Aging Research's Annual Bipartisan Congressional Awards Dinner and Roundtable events.

Award Purpose:
The award recognizes a Democratic member of Congress who is leading the way for policies encouraging medical research, innovation, and care to benefit Americans as they grow older.

Geographic Scope: United States (federal level - U.S. Congress members)

Focus Areas:

• Medical research and innovation for aging
• Policies benefiting older Americans
• Health care for aging populations
• Scientific discoveries related to aging

About the Alliance for Aging Research:
The Alliance for Aging Research is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health.

Recent Recipients:

• 2023: U.S. Representative Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA)
• 2022: U.S. Representative Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA)
• 2021: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
• 2020: U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
• 2019: U.S. Representative James E. Clyburn (D-SC)
• 2018: U.S. Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
• 2017: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE)
• 2016: U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA-43)
• 2015: U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO-1)
• 2014: U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL)
• 2013: U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC)
• 2012: U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz (D-PA)
• 2011: U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
• 2010: U.S. Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
• 2009: U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI)
• 2008: U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
• 2007: U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND)
• 2006: U.S. Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
• 2005: U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)