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.
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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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