Member groups recognize public health leaders with APHA 2021 awards
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* Aaron Warnick

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Awards listed were supplied to APHA staff by deadline via member groups. For more information on awards from APHA’s member groups, visit [www.apha.org/APHA-Communities](https://www.apha.org/APHA-Communities).

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## Aging & Public Health Section

**Aetna Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women and Public Health**: DeAnnah Bryrd, PhD **Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation**: Alameda County Care Alliance Advanced Illness Care Program **Honorable Mention**: Alzheimer’s Los Angeles Recuerdos Perdidos Telenovela **Betty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award**: Bonnie McGrath **Honorable Mention**: Xiaobei Dong, PhD **Erickson Foundation Award for Excellence in Research**: Omolola Adepoju, PhD, MPH **Honorable Mention**: Siwon Jang, PhD **James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award**: Carrie Nieman, MD **Laurence G. Branch Doctoral Student Research Award**: Leah Estrada **Honorable Mention**: Kate June, MA, MPA **Master’s Student Research Award**: Enas Alshahrani **Honorable Mention**: Dagoberto Robles **Nabuo Maeda International Research Award**: Hae-Ra Han, PhD, RN, FAAN **Honorable Mention**: Duke Appiah, PhD, MPH **Philip G. Weiler Award for Leadership in Aging and Public Health**: Patricia Alt, PhD **Rural and Environment Research Award**: Ashley Chastain, DrPH, MPH; Sunming Lee, PhD **Steven P. Wallace Lifetime Achievement Award**: Richard Fortinsky, PhD

## Applied Public Health Statistics Section

**Best General Poster Award**: Jessica Antiskay **Best Student Poster Award**: Aaron Myers **Lifetime Outstanding Service Award**: Wei Pan, PhD **Lowell Reed Lecturer Award**: Charles McCulloch **Section Achievement in Government Award**: Stephen Blumberg, PhD **Spiegelman Award**: Sherri Rose, PhD **Stata Scholarship**: Wenbo Wu **Student Research Competition**: Melissa Meeker, Jianing Wang, Wenbo Wu

## Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health

**Best Student Abstract**: Shamir Ali **Best Published Paper**: “The Hidden Colors or Coronavirus: The Burden of Attributable COVID-19 Deaths,” Janet Chu, MD **Community Organization Recognition Award**: Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association **Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Asian Pacific Islander Caucus Award for Health Equity**: Joyce Javier, MD, MPH, MS

## Black Caucus of Health Workers

**Community Service Award**: Alisa Howard, CHW **Hildrus A. Poindexter Award**: Uche Blackstock, MD **Louis Stokes Legislative Service Award**: Sheila Tyson **Pamela Denzmore Public Health Advocacy Award**: Traci Simmons, MPH, CPH, CHES

## Breastfeeding Forum

**Best Practitioner/Professional Abstract**: Faven Araya, MPH; Shawn Mitchell, MPH **Best Student Abstract**: Mamoona Shah, MPH

## Caucus on Homelessness

**Student Abstract Award**: Chloe Vercruysse, MBA

## Community Health Planning & Policy Development Section

**Best Doctoral-Level Abstract Award**: Jessica Thompson, PhD, MEd **Best Masters-Level Abstract Award**: Shawna Hotch **Chair Citation Award**: Maurice Johnson Jr. MPH **Excellence in Collaboration**: Kaitlyn Esposito, MPH **Excellence in Member Engagement**: Deja Knight, MPH **Excellence in Policy Engagement**: Brandon Brooks **Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Planning**: Lu Shi **Travel Scholarship**: *Early-career professional:* Emily Gvino, Brianna Williams *Professional:* Carmen Barbuto, Marissa Brash *Student:* Gilbert Arviz, Sarah Boland, Alyssa Burch, Adeeb Fae, Sheila Guiracocha, Nehae Kim Kaji Keya-Korotki, Yanieka Williams **Vision Award for Excellence in Health Policy**: Tapati Dutta, PhD, MCHES, MPS, MA.

## Community Health Workers Section

**Individual of the Year Award**: Argelia Espinoza, CHW **Group of the Year Award**: Brookings Core Response Community Health Worker Team: Diana Cooper, CHW **Sewell Scholarship**: Victoria Adewumi, CHW; Maureen Burns, CHW; Dinorah Martinez, CHW; Nicole Olweean, CHW

## Community-Based Public Health Caucus

**Chair Award**: Ella Greene Moton **E. Hill Deloney Award**: Bianca Alexander **Lucille Webb Award**: Joyce Chapman ****Tom Bruce Award:**** Roberto Vargas, MD **President Award**: Patricia Piechowski

## Environment Section

**Damu Smith Award**: Omega Wilson **Distinguished Service Award**: Jyotsna Jagai, MS, MPH, PhD **Homer Calver Award**: Tracey Woodruff, MPH, PhD **Rebecca A. Head Award**: Michele Okoh, JD

## Epidemiology Section

**Abraham Lilienfeld Award**: Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, PhD MPH **John Snow Award**: Stanley Weiss, MD **Public Health Practice Award**: Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, MPH **Student Scholarship**: Epiphane Awokou, MPH; Amadu Barrie; Brittney Boakye, MPH; William Eger; Judy Ihedioha; Sharonda Lovett, MPH, CPH, CHES; Virginia Nowakowski; Gina Sanchez, MHA, MS; Jayati Sharma; Shelby West **Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship Award**: Marc Lipsitch, PhD

## Ethics Section

**Distinguished Career in Public Health Ethics**: James Thomas, MPH, PhD **Section Abstract Award**: Amaya Perez-Brumer, MSc, PhD

## Foot & Ankle Section

**Foot and Ankle Section Student Award**: Sarah Ayvazov; Obiozor Nneamaka Emeagwali; Elyse Hoy; Alexander Malek, DPM, MPH; Andrew Silman; Sharisse Danielle Victor **John & Janet Carson Public Health Advocacy Award**: Rachel Albright, DPM, MPH **Leonard A. Levy Award**: Matthew Diamond, DPM **Stephen Toth Distinguished Service Award**: Adam Fleischer, DPM, MPH

## Food & Nutrition Section

**Section Fellows**: Nicole Chimbetete, MPH, RDN; Tyana Ellis, MSPH; Bibi Nadia Shaheen Koyratty, PhD; Jolene Rios, MPH; Elder Garcia Varela, MA, MS

## Genomic Forum

**Distinguished Service Award**: Stephen Modell, PhD **New Investigator Award**: Jennifer Young, PhD **New Presenter Award**: Juan Gudino, MPH **Outstanding Research Award**: Collen McBride, PhD **Public Health Genomics Award**: Huiyi Lin, PhD **Student Award**: Raj Fadadu

## Health Administration Section

**Excellence in Health Care Administration Award**: Marina Moses, DrPH, MS **Graduate Student and Early Career Professional Scholarship**: Juha Baek, DrPH, MPSA **Graduate Student Scholarship Award**: Bonnie Reyna, MPH, MSED **Research To Practice Award**: Soumya Upadhyay, PhD **Runners up**: Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH; Denise Tahara, PhD **Section Chair’s Award**: Mirna Amaya, PhD, MPH **Student Achievement Award**: Stephanie Bultema, MAAL **W.C. Woodward Award**: Takiyah Wilson, PhD, MBA

## Integrative, Complementary & Traditional Health Practices Section

**Distinguished Career Award**: Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH, MPH **Early Career Award**: Laura Schwab Reese, PhD, MA **Emerging Leadership Award**: Dana Garfin, MA, PhD **Impact Award**: James Whedon, DC, MS; Tabatha Parker, ND **Public Service Award**: Justin Heinze, PhD **Special Student Contribution Award**: D’Shane Barnett **Susan Goodwin Gerberich Student Paper Competition Award**: Ariana Gobaud, MPH

## International Health Section

**Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in International Health**: Mary Bassett, MD, MPH **Distinguished Section Service Award**: Sarah Shannon **Gordon-Wyon Award for Community-Based Epidemiology, Research and Practice**: Riyadh Khudhair Lafta Al-Juboori, MD, PhD **Mid-Career Award in International Health**: Benjamin Mason-Meier, JD, LLM, PhD **Young Professional Award**: Chiwoneso Beverley Tinago, PhD, MPH, CHES

## Latino Caucus for Public Health

**Distinguished Nationally Known Health Professional Award**: Flavio Marsiglia, PhD, MSW **Henry Montes President Award**: Airin Denise Martinez, PhD, MPH **Outstanding New Community Public Health Professional Award**: Signe Espinoza, MPH **Outstanding Student Paper Award**: Yesnely Flores

## LGBTQ Health Caucus

**Grant Farmer Memorial Student Scholarship Award**: Stephanie Orozoc, Nathaniel Tran **Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award**: Shahmir Ali

## Maternal & Child Health Section

**Distinguished Service Award**: Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH; Lesley Cottrell, PhD **Effective Practice Award**: Julie Kapp, MPH, PhD **Honorable Mention**: Omrana Pasha-Razzak, MBBS, MSPH **Legislative Leadership Award**: U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill. **Martha May Eliot Award**: Donna Petersen, ScD, MHS, CPH **Outstanding Leadership and Advocacy Award**: Judith Katzburg, PhD, MPH, RN; Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN **Young Professional Award**: Sascha Ellington, MSPH, PhD

## Medical Care Section

**Barbara Starfield Fellow**: Zach Dyer, MPH; Salena Marie Preciado, MSc

## Mental Health Section

**Carl A. Taube Award**: Lonnie Snowden, PhD **Kenneth Lutterman Award**: Shawn Thomas, MPH **Mental Health Section Award**: Mary Jane Alexander, PhD **Rema Lapouse Award,** *presented with the Applied Public Health Statistics Section and Epidemiology Section:* Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH, FACE **Steve M. Banks Award**: Denise Juliano-Bult, MSW

## Oral Health Section

**Anthony Westwater Jong Population Oral Health Pre-Professional Award**: Arwa Gazzaz, MPH; Wenyue Lu, ML **Caswell A. Evans Population Oral Health Post-Professional Award**: Jorge Bernal, DDS, MPH; Megan Cloidt, DDS, MPH **Knutson Distinguished Service Award**: Jayanth Kumar, DDS, MPH

## Occupational Health & Safety Section

**Alice Hamilton Award**: Peter Dooley, MS, CIH, CSP; Eileen Storey, MD, MPH **Eula Bingham Award**: Debra Coyle McFadden; John Morawetz, ScM **Keogh Scholarship**: Keyshawn Grimmage, Annessia Jimenez, Shelly Lim, Genesis Miranda, Alejandro Munoz, Liam Romand **Leslie Nickles International Award**: Manti Nota, MS **Lorin Kerr Award**: Maysel Pagan-Santana, DrPH, MSW **New Researchers Award**: Bryan Patriquin, MPH; Sarah Scales, MPH; Margaret Whitley, PhD, MPH **Tony Mazzochi Award**: Milagros Barretto

## One Health Special Interest Group

**One Health Leadership Award**: Catherine Machalaba, PhD, MPH

## Pharmacy Section

**Professional Award**: Suzanna Gim, MPH **Student Award**: Salena Marie Preciado, MSc **Student Community Award**: Golnoosh Alipour-Haris, PharmD, MS

## Public Health Education & Health Promotion Section

**Early Career Award**: Monica Kasting, PhD **Everett M. Rogers Award**: Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH **Judith R. Miller Award**: Ashley Love, DrPH, DHSc, MPH **Health Equity Award**: Andy Tan, PhD, MPH, MBA **Hod Ogden Award**: Adriane Griffin, DrPH, MPH, MCHES **Materials Contest**: Denise Dickinson, MPH; Loretta Jackson-Brown, PhD, RN, CNN; Alia Poulos, MA, MPP **Student Awards**: Nathalye Lopez, Ny’Nika McFadden, Siona Prasad, Megan Williams, Erika Zúñiga **Student Poster Award**: Rebecca Balasa, Micaila Baroffio, Ashvita Garg, McKenna Ross, Sabrina Sharif, Jenna Stribling, Jennifer Talbott, Zoe Quint

## Public Health Nursing Section

**Creative Achievement Award**: Geraldine Gorman, RN, PhD **Feleta Wilson Award**: Dawn Wooten, LPN **Junior Investigator Award**: Gary Glauderman, PhD, RN, PHNA-BC, NHDP-BC **Lillian Wald Service Award**: Ann Becker, DNP, RN **Ruth B. Freeman Award**: Linda Hook, DrPH, MSN, RN

## Public Health Social Work Section

**Conference Registration Scholarship**: Vashti Adams, MSW; Michelle Baum, MSW, MPH, LCSW; Liliana Burbano; Natasha De Veauuse Brown, PhD, MPH; Yuanyuan Hu, MSW, LCSW; Nilufar Kayhani; Liana Petruzzi, MSW **Insley Evans Public Health Social Worker of the Year**: Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW **Student Paper Award**: Rachel Ludeke, MSW, LMSW

## Physical Activity Section

**Best Student Oral Presentation Award**: Kemba Noel-London, PhD, MAT, ACT **Best Student Poster Award**: Sean Lubiak **Steven P. Hooker Research Award**: Natalia Heredia, PhD, MPH

## School Health & Wellness Section

**Outstanding Student Award**: Anh Vo **Student Award for Best Abstract**: Anh Vo **Student Scholarship**: Jeneen Ali, Darci Johnson, Nilufar Kayhani, Rachel Sadlon, Casey Thomas

## Sexual & Reproductive Health Section

**Adolescent Poster Award**: Jordann Rawlings, MA **Carl S. Shultz Award**: Tracy Weitz, PhD **Contraception Poster Award**: Bhavita Kumari, MD, MPH **General Poster Award**: Divya Reddy **Felicia Stewart Advocacy Award**: Lynn Roberts, PhD **Outstanding Young Professional Award**: Cassondra Marshall, DrPH, MPH **Sexuality Poster Award**: Jazmine Chan, MPH; Leah Koenig, MSPH

## Student Assembly

**Campus Liaison**: Relicious Eboh, MPH **Chair’s Citation Award**: Ayanna McGee, MPH, MHA; Emily Owens Pickle **Honorable Mention**: Lauren Joyce, MPH; Kathryn Knoff, CHES; Bunmi Ogungbe, MPH **Friend of the Assembly Award**: Elsa Greer **Lyndon Haviland Public Health Mentoring Award**: Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD, MSW **Outstanding Student Abstract**: Mikiko Thelwell, MPH **Regional Student Liaison**: Jannat Saini, PharmD, MPH **Section Liaison**: Elena Jordanov, MPH **Trong D.Nguyen Memorial Award**: Lauren Johnson, MPH

## Vision Care Section

**Distinguished Service Award**: Jacqueline Davis, OD, MPH **Distinguished Student Service Award**: Erica Shelton, OD, MS **Melvin D. Shipp Best Abstract Award**: Marycon Chin Jiro, Jennifer Cocohoba, Migel Dio, Lauren Hennein, Susan Ivey, Marlon Maus, Michael Sigua **Morton W. Silverman Outstanding Student Project Award**: Connor Robbs **Outstanding Scientific Paper (Project) Award**: Matthew Burton, PhD, MA

## Women’s Caucus

**Highest Scoring Abstract Award**: Megan Smith, PhD **Honorable Mention**: Martine Shareck, MS **Highest Scoring Student Abstract**: Nazineen Kandahari, PhD **Honorable Mention**: Morayo Akande, MPH; Jé Judson, MPH; Sarah Strom

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