APHA member groups recognize public health achievements

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