Meet our Honorees
Each honoree will receive distinguished recognition from NMF for either their personal contributions or on the behalf of their company's unwavering commitment to health equity
Beatrice Dixon is the CEO, Co-Founder, and Chief Innovation Officer of The Honey Pot Company, the first complete personal wellness brand “made by humans with vaginas, for humans with vaginas.” ®
Beatrice created The Honey Pot Company in 2014 out of great personal need during an eight-month battle with bacterial vaginosis. The constant symptoms and fruitless search for solutions led her to formulate what became The Honey Pot Company’s first product, a vulva-safe wash. From that product, Beatrice has grown The Honey Pot Company into a plant-derived personal wellness powerhouse, intent on providing humans with better-for-you products made from powerful and efficacious ingredients.
Unlike other mass market and conventional personal care brands, consumers are able to get all of their plant-derived wellness needs met under one brand as The Honey Pot Company currently offers feminine washes, wipes, tampons, pads, and products for vaginal health and wellness. Today, The Honey Pot Company’s products can be found in 4.6 million U.S. homes and in retailers nationwide, including Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Bed Bath and Beyond, Wegmans, and other retailers.
Since founding The Honey Pot Company, Beatrice has been recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, Worth’s Worthy 100, Forbes Top 100 Female Founders, Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs, Ebony’s Power 100, and Create and Cultivate’s 100. The Honey Pot Company has won a CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women’s) Beauty Creator Award for the last three years, an ESSENCE Best in Black Beauty Award, a Cosmopolitan Holy Grail Award, a Bustle Sexual Wellness Award, a WWD Beauty Inc Wellness Award, Inc. Best in Business Award, a Glamour 100 Award, Health Editor Picks Award, and a Beauty Inc Award.
Bea resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
2024 NMF Corporate Imagineer Award
Veronica Thierry Mallett M.D. MMM is a dynamic health care leader. Currently she is serving as the Chief Administrative Officer for the More In Common Alliance (MICA). This historic partnership between the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Common Spirit Health (CSH) will prove to be transformational for increasing diversity in the healthcare work force. The initiative will double the class size in the MSM and MSM Physician’s Assistant program, creating regional campuses for MSM and creating 10 new residency sites with up to 10 program per site expanding the diverse primary care and specialty workforce across the nation. She previously served as President and CEO of Meharry Medical College Ventures (MMCV), a wholly owned subsidiary of Meharry Medical College, and as the Executive Director for the Center for Women’s Health Research at Meharry. Dr. Mallett served as the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs and Dean at Meharry Medical College School of Medicine (MMC SOM) until 2020. In this role, she was responsible for all clinical operations for the academic health science center, dedicated to educating physicians, dentists, researchers, and health policy experts. In 2021, she was named to the board of directors for Sharecare, Inc. (Nasdaq:SHCR), a digital health company.
Born in Detroit, Dr. Mallett attended Barnard College, Columbia University followed by medical school at Michigan State University. Following medical school, she completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fellowship in Urological Gynecology at Wayne State University. She completed a Research and Surgical Fellowship in Electrophysiology of the Pelvic Floor/Reconstructive Surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, England. She earned a master’s degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
Since finishing her formative education, Dr. Mallett has served on the Faculty of Northwestern, Wayne State, University of Tennessee, Texas Tech Health Science Center El Paso, holding leadership positions in each of these schools. In her over 25 years of leadership experience, she has served as Fellowship Director, Residency Director, Director of Healthcare Excellence, Practice Plan Director, and Department Chair at Wayne State, University of Tennessee Memphis, and Texas Tech. respectively.
Dr. Mallett has received several leadership awards; including 2022 Athena Award, the Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence 2020, the Nashville Medical News 2018 Woman to Watch, and Nashville Healthcare Council fellow. She has authored over 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts combined.
2024 NMF Excellence in Medical Education Award
Mrs. Eva Ginger Sullivan, Esquire, has had a storied career as a civic leader.
While attending Northeastern University, Sullivan served as a hepatic research technician at Yale School of Medicine. In 1958, she moved to New York, where she worked as a medical assistant. She later joined Massachusetts General Hospital as a cardiovascular researcher. An active member of Christ Church in Boston, Massachusetts, she helped plan the church’s trip to attend the March on Washington in 1963.
She graduated from Woodrow Wilson School of Law in 1970.
In 1977, she organized the Friends of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). This volunteer organization raised more than $500,000.00 for student scholarships with an annual dinner which recognized prominent individuals who supported the new medical school.
From 1989-1993 she served on the Committee to select the White House Fellows. She was a volunteer speaker for the National Cancer Institute, to improve cancer prevention and treatment.
Mrs. Eva Ginger Sullivan and her husband are sponsors of The Sullivan 5K Run/Walk for Health & Fitness on Martha’s Vineyard. Now in its third decade, the popular event has raised more than $850,000 to benefit Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
Mrs. Sullivan has also served on the boards of the High Museum of Art, the Alliance Theatre, True Colors Theatre in Atlanta, Wolf Trap, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Arthritis Foundation of Georgia, and was a strong supporter of Medical Education for South African Blacks and Africare.
A member of the Buckhead Cascade Chapter of Links, Inc. and the auxiliaries to the Atlanta Medical Association and the National Medical Association, Sullivan remains active in the Atlanta community.
2024 NMF Lifetime Achievement Award
Photo of Dr. and Mrs. Sullivan on their wedding day.
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., is chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions. In January 2020, in order to further increase diversity and transform health professions’ education and health delivery systems, the Board of the Sullivan Alliance voted to become a central program of the Association of Academic Health Centers. In 2022, it merged into the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Sullivan served as chair of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from 2002-2009 and was co-chair of the President’s Commission on HIV and AIDS from 2001-2006. Except for his tenure as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Sullivan was president of Atlanta’s own Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) for more than two decades and now holds the title of president emeritus.
Dr. Sullivan became the founding dean and director of the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College in 1975. The program became The School of Medicine at Morehouse College in 1978, admitting its first 24 students to a two-year program in the basic medical sciences. In 1981, the school received provisional accreditation of its four-year curriculum leading to the M.D. degree, became independent from Morehouse College, and was re-named Morehouse School of Medicine, with Dr. Sullivan as dean and president. It became a fully accredited four-year medical school in April of 1985.
Dr. Sullivan left Morehouse in 1989 to accept an appointment by President George H.W. Bush to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services, managing the federal agency responsible for the major health, welfare, food and drug safety, medical research and income security programs serving the American people.
During his tenure, he led the effort to increase the National Institutes of Health budget and established the Office of Research on Minority Health, which has since become the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, among many, many other notable achievements.
In January 1993, he returned to Morehouse School of Medicine and resumed the role of president.
In 2021, Boston University School of Medicine established the Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Professor of Medicine. The same year, the institution created the Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Academic Leadership Program, a selective program for high potential faculty from Underrepresented Groups in Medicine who would benefit from protected time to complete a project that will advance their careers. Also in 2021, Weill Cornell Medicine launched the Dr. Louis Wade Sullivan Department of Medicine Lectureship in support of diversity and health equity. Dr. Sullivan is the recipient of more than 80 honorary degrees.
Dr. Sullivan is the author of The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation’s Newest African American Medical School, his autobiography Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine, and We’ll Fight it Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity; How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.
Dr. Sullivan currently serves on the corporate boards of United Therapeutics and Emergent Biosolutions. He also serves as co-chair of the Henry Schein Cares Foundation. He is retired from the boards of General Motors, 3M, Bristol Myers Squibb, CIGNA, Household International (now HBSC), Georgia Pacific, Equifax, Henry Schein, and BioSante Pharmaceuticals.
2024 NMF Lifetime Achievement Award