APHA member groups recognize public health achievements
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APHA’s Sections, Forums, Caucuses and the Student Assembly honored the best and brightest in public health with awards at APHA’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Expo in November.

## Aging and Public Health Section

**Aetna Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women and Public Health:** Tanner Heaton, MD

**Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation:** Gary Lee, MD Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care

**Betty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award:** R. Turner Goins, PhD, MS

**Erickson Foundation Award for Excellence in Research:** Jennifer Lyn Shaw, PhD

**James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award:** Xiangjun Zhang, PhD

**Laurence G. Branch Doctoral Student Research Award:** Lena Thompson, PhD

**Master’s Student Research Award:** Sherry Wu, MPH

**Nabuo Maeda Global Health Research Award:** Preshit Ambade, DrPH

**Philip G. Weiler Award for Leadership in Aging and Public Health:** Isis Mikhail MD, MPH

**Rural and Environment Research Award:** Hoimonty Mzumder, PhD; Nasim Ferdows, PhD

**Steven P. Wallace Emerging Advocate Award:** Rebecca Payne, MPH, MURP

## Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section

**John D. Slade Memorial Advocacy Award:** Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS

**Lifetime Achievement Award:** Manoj Sharma, PhD, MBBS

**Section Leadership Award:** Cassie Tourre, MPA; Sean Haley, PhD, MPH

## Applied Public Health Statistics Section

**Achievement In Academia Award:** Ofer Harel, PhD

**Lifetime Achievement Award:** Robert Vogel, PhD

**Mid-Career Achievement Award:** Janet Rosenbaum, PhD

**Lowell Reed Lecturer:** Miguel Hernan, PhD

**Mortimer Spiegelman Award:** Russell Shinohara, PhD

**Stata Scholar Award Finalists:** Li Feng, Nicholas Link, Shangchen Song

## Chiropractic Health Care Section

**Distinguished Service:** Dana Madigan, DC; Krista Ward, DC

**Lifetime Achievement:** Will Evans, DC

## Community Health Policy and Planning Development Section

**APHA CHPPD Travel Scholarship:** Bree Bode; PhD; MPH; Mya Carter; Anny Dhanwani; Carolyn Fan; Indira Giri; Shimaa Heikal; Thomas Jackson; MPH; Preeti Juturu; Deja Knight; Marlette Grace Dulcinee Mabiala-Maye; Brianna Monk; Ajayi Oluwole; Bright Omolumen; James Waters

**Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Planning:** Sonia Deal

**Vision Award for Excellence in Health Policy:** Khushbu Balsara

## Disability Section

**Career Enhancement Scholarship:** Elad Daniels, Joy Haizelden, Natalie Hardy, Samantha Ratakonda, Luca Swinford

**Advocacy Award:** Tameka Citchen-Spruce

**Allan Meyers Award:** D.J. McMaughan, PhD

**Health Equity Award:** Sandra Vanegas, PhD

**Lifetime Achievement Award:** Donald Lollar, EdD

**New Investigator Award:** Robyn Powell, JD, PhD

**Peg Nosek Award:** Justine Wu, MD, MPH

**Student Award:** Dana Rubenstein, MD

## Environment Section

**Damu Smith Environmental Achievement Award:** Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, PhD, MPH **Environment Section Distinguished Service Award:** Theodora Tsongas, PhD, MA

**Homer N. Calver Award:** Doug Farquhar, JD

**Rebecca A. Head Award:** Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH

## Ethics Section

**Distinguished Career Award:** Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH

**Student and New Career Award for Public Health Ethics:** Rebecca Ellis, MPH, MS

**Student Abstract Award:** Carson Peters

## Food and Nutrition Section

**Catherine Cowell Award:** Rebecca Larson, DrPH, MS

**Mary C. Egan Award:** Yen Ang, DrPH

**Sarah Samuels Memorial Award:** Christina Roberto, PhD

**Student Scientific Presentation Award:** Darashagam Nahal, Christopher Richter, Samantha Sundermeir

**Student Scientific Presentation Recognition of Excellence:** Matthew Lee

## Foot and Ankle Health Section

**John and Janet Carson Public Health Advocacy Award:** David Lau, DPM, MPH

**Outstanding Student Award:** Kyler Hattendorf; Jack Arp, Rashika Budhatoki; Katherine Anne Hageney; Shawnda Henault; MS; Sharon Dei-Tumi, MPH; Stephen Toth

**Distinguished Service Award:** Matthew Diamond, DPM

## Health Administration Section

**Early Career Professional Scholarship:** Akililu Ashuro, PhD

**Early Career Professional Scholarship Award:** Brianna Monk, MPA, MA; Angelina Cayabyab **Graduate Student Scholarship:** Asha Collier, Kearston Ingraham, MPH

## HIV/AIDS Section

**Early Career Professional Award:** Alvin Kwon, MD, MPH

**Excellence in Abstract Submission Among All Presenters:** Mandy Hill, DrPH, MPH

**Excellence in Abstract Submission Among All Presenters Honorable Mention:** Corey Garrett **Excellence in Abstract Submission Among New Investigator Honorable Mention:** Eleanor “Nellie” Gallow, MPH

**Excellence in Abstract Submission Among New Investigators:** Antoinette Oot, MD, MPH **Excellence in Abstract Submission Among Student APHA Members and winner of the HIV/AIDS Section Student Scholarship:** Abigail Lee, MPH

**Excellence in Abstract Submission on an International Topic:** Nasim Khoshnam, MS

## Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section

**APHA Presidents Road Safety Scholarship:** Alexander Ulintz, MD; Rachael Thompson Panik, AICP; Jialun Xue, MS; Irene Afua Quarshie, MD; Morgan O’Donald, MPH; Shima Shakory, MD; Woojae Choi, MD; Kirill Rogovoy, ENV; S.P. Yongcan Huang, PhD

**Distinguished Career:** Karen Liller, PhD

**Dr. Susan Goodwin Gerberich Student Paper Award:** Alex Richard

**Early Career Award:** Christopher Morrison, PhD

**Excellence in Science Award:** Motao Zhu, PhD

**Institutional Public Service Award:** National Athletic Trainers’ Association

## International Health Section

**Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award**: Sarah Shannon

**Distinguished Section Service Award:** Brianne Riggin-Pathak, MPH

**Gordon-Wyon Award for Community-Oriented Public Health, Epidemiology and Practice:** Judy Lewis, MPhil

**International Health Section Abstract Award:** Preshit Ambade, DrPH, MHA; Shawna Novak, MD, MA; Parthende Pinder, DrPH, MD; Hagere Yilma, PhD, MPH; Saurabh Kalra, MS; Iyanuoluwa Odole, MPH; Kingsley Ojeikere, MBBS, MPH

**Mid-Career Award in International Health:** Mona Bormert, MPH

## Law Section

**Abstract of the Year:** S. Bryn Austin, ScD, SM

**Early Career Award for Excellence in Public Health Law:** Mellissa Sager, JD

**Jennifer Robbins Award for the Practice of Public Health Law:** Corey Davis, JD, MSPH

**Lifetime Achievement in Public Health Law:** Martha Katz, MPA

**Student Abstract of the Year:** Lindsay Cloud, JD

## Maternal and Child Health Section

**Effective Practice Award-Local Impact**: Victoria Revelle, MPH

**Effective Practice Award-State and National Impact:** Jennifer Marshal, PhD

**MCH Section Distinguished Service Award:** Briana Jegier, PhD

**MCH Young Professional Award:** Brittany Chambers Butcher, PhD, MPH

**Outstanding Leadership/Advocacy Award:** Carrie Shapiro-Mendoza, PhD, MPH

**Outstanding Leadership/Advocacy Award:** Halida Hanum Akhter, DrPH, MBBS, MCPS

## Medical Care Section

**Medical Care Chair Citation**: Kara Allard, MPH

**Medical Care Student Paper Award:** Alexander Adia, MPH; J.B. Eyring; Jessica Lipori, MSEd; Jacqueline Xu

## Mental Health Section

**Carl A. Taube Award:** Hortensia Amaro, PhD

**Kenneth Lutterman Award:** Gul Saeed, MPH

**Mental Health Section Award:** Bruce Crow, PsyD; Brett Harris, DrPH; Kim Townsend, MHA **Rema Lapouse Award:** Preben Bo Mortensen, MD, DrMedSc

**Steve M. Banks Award:** Ron Manderscheid, PhD

## Occupational Health and Safety Section

**Alice Hamilton Award:** Karen Malloy, DO, MSCH

**Eula Bingham Award for Excellence in OHS Education and Training:** Kim Dunn, MSPH; Bruce McClue III

**Leslie Nichols International Health and Safety Award:** Leslie London, MD, MBChB; MMed **Lorin Kerr Award:** Ingrid Denis, MS, LCSW

**Tony Mazzochi Award:** Catherine Duarte, MS

## Oral Health Section

**Anthony Westwater Jong Population Oral Health Pre-Professional Student Award:** Sapna Nath, Olivert Mbah, MPH

**Caswell A. Evans Population Oral Health Post-Professional Student Award:** Ellyce Clonan, DDS, MPH, MA; Nithya Ramesh, MPH

## Pharmacy Section

**APHA Pharmacy Section Early Career Award:** Kathryn Marwitz, PharmD, MPH

**APHA Pharmacy Section Lifetime Achievement Award:** Stuart Feldman, PhD

**APHA Pharmacy Section Sustained Contributor Award:** Natalie DiPietro Mager, PharmD, PhD

## Physical Activity Section

**Outstanding Student Oral Presentation of Physical Activity Research in Public Health:** Zach Farley, MPH

**Outstanding Student Poster Presentation of Physical Activity Research in Public Health:** Mary Catherine Innace

**Steven P. Hooker Award for Outstanding Physical Activity Research in Public Health:** Jamie Chriqui, PhD, MHS

## Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section

**Everett M. Rogers Award:** Jingwen Zhang, PhD

**Health Equity Award:** Sherilyn Duckworth, PhD

**Judith R. Miller Award:** Amanda Wilkerson, PhD, CHES

**PHEHP Early Career Award:** Jennifer Mandelbaum, PhD

**PHEHP Materials Contest:** Yvonnes Chen, PhD; Alyssa Robillard, PhD, MCHES; Jennifer Kawatu, MPH

## Public Health Nursing Section

**Emerging Researcher Award**: Jessica LeClair, PhD, MPH

**Feleta Wilson Award:** Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN

**Lilian Wald Service Award:** Rebecca Shasanmi Ellis, PhD, MPH

**Margaret G. Arnstein Award:** Rita Munley Gallagher, PhD, RN

**Public Health Nurse Creative Achievement Award:** North Carolina Credentialed Public Health Nurse Program

**Ruth B Freeman Award:** Jennifer Collins, PhD, RN

## Public Health Social Work Section

**Insley-Evans Public Health Social Worker of the Year:** Alison Kiser, MSW

## School Health and Wellness Section

**Leader Award:** Rajika Reed, PhD, MPH

**Student Abstract Award:** Elisa Park

## Sexual and Reproductive Health Section

**Outstanding Early Career Professional:** Brandon Crawford, PhD

**Sexual and Reproductive Health Outstanding Student Poster:** Eric Schisler**,** Megan Williams, PhD

## Vision Care Section

**Distinguished Service Award:** Susan Primo, OD, MPH

**Melvin D. Shipp Best Abstract Award:** John Wittenborn, David Rein, PhD

**Morton W. Silverman Outstanding Student-Paper Project Award:** Rachel Breliant

## Caucus on Public Health and Faith Community

**Flame Award:** Hatch John, PhD

## LGBTQ Health Caucus

**Friend of the LGBTQ Health Caucus Award:** Heather Brandt, PhD, James Carbo

**Pat Mail-Peggy Kopf Leadership Award:** Rachel L Levine, MD

**Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award**: Jackie Cosse

## American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus

**Margo Kerrigan Student Scholarship:** Nina Edwards, Kassandra Eyre

Roderick Harp, Cameron Smith, Jetney Vegas

## Genomics Forum

**Distinguished Service Award:** Karen Niemchick, PhD

**Outstanding Research Award:** Brett Maricque, PhD

**Public Health Genomics Award:** Stephen Modell, PhD

## Cancer Forum

**Cancer Public Health Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award**: Manoj Sharma PhD, MBBS

**Cancer Public Health Student Award:** Thinh Vu

**Cancer Public Leadership Award:** Mona Saraiya, MD, MPH

## Human Rights Forum

**Best Oral Presentation Abstract Professional:** Yutian Li

**Best Poster Presentation Abstract Professional Student:** Trevor Clark

**Best Poster Presentation Abstract Professional:** Chris Schmidt

**Best Poster Presentation Abstract Professional Student:** Divya Mohanraj

**Best Oral Presentation Honorable Mention:** Sage Kim, PhD

## Student Assembly

**APHA Student Assembly Annual Meeting Scholarship:** Daniel Amoatika, Abimbola Ayomiposi, Amrit Baral, Nalim Choi, Khadijah Davis, William Eger, Chidera Emeto, Brenna Kirk, Deja Knight, Mark Kuo, Lorraine LaCroix-Williamson, Grace Mabiala-Maye, Selene Manga, Ezinne Sylvia Melikam, Simon Mwima, Deborah Nabubwaya Chambers, Nika Norvila, Iyanuoluwa Odole, JaNiene Peoples, Sabrina Richards, Joel Rubio, Gul Saeed, Samuel Saidu, Hannah Stewart, Ann Yao Zhang

**Campus Liaison of the Year Award:** Jocelyn Dela Cruz, Pradeep Rajbhandari

**Chair Citation Award Winner:** Germysha Little

**Friend of the Student Assembly:** Sebastian Padrino

**Section Liaison of the Year Award:** Bree Zhang

**Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award:** Raghavee Neupane

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