The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) and Editor-in-Chief developed a process whereby individuals could be recognized for their roles as authors or reviewers of recently published papers.
Two categories of awards were established for 2011 and 2012. The first is the AJPH Paper of the Year. This award recognizes a published paper that substantially contributes to our knowledge and understanding of an important public health issue or has advanced a given public health policy or program. The second category is the AJPH Reviewer of the Year which was established to recognize a reviewer who has done the most to strengthen a paper or papers prior to publication.
A forthcoming article applauding each award winner will appear in the April 2013 issue of AJPH. The article will be online March 6, 2013, and can be accessed from http://www.ajph.org.
2011 AJPH Papers of the Year
Yi Zeng, Danan Gu, Jama Purser, Helen Hoeing, and Nicholas Christakis
Associations of Environmental Factors with Elderly Health and Mortality in China February 2010;100(2):298-305)
Jeremy A. Greene and David Herzberg
Hidden in Plain Sight: Marketing Prescription Drugs to Consumers in the Twentieth Century May 2010;100:793-803)
David J. Malebranche, Kimberly Jacob Arriola, Tyrrell R. Jenkins, Emily Dauria, and Shilpa N. Patel
Exploring the 'Bisexual Bridge': A Qualitative Study of Risk Behavior and Disclosure of Same-Sex Behavior Among Black Bisexual Men
January 2010;100:159-164 (doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.158725)
Sheila M. Rothman, Victoria H. Raveis, Anne Friedman, and David J. Rothman
Health Advocacy Organizations and the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Analysis of Disclosure Practices
April 2011;101:602-609
Denise Hallfors, Hyunsan Cho, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, Bonita Iritani, John Mapfumo, and Carolyn Halpern
Supporting Adolescent Orphan Girls to Stay in School as HIV Risk Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Zimbabwe
June 2011;101:1082-1088
2012 AJPH Paper of the Year
Gary Adamkiewicz, Ami R. Zota, Patricia Fabian, Teresa Chahine, Rhona Julien, John D. Spengler, and Jonathan I. Levy
Moving Environmental Justice Indoors: Understanding Structural Influences on Residential Exposure Patterns in Low-Income Communities
Am J Public Health 2011;101(Suppl 1):S238-S245
Paula A. Braveman, Shiriki Kumanyika, Jonathan Fielding, Thomas LaVeist; Luisa N. Borrell, Ron Manderscheid, and Adewale Troutman
Health Disparities and Health Equity: The Issue Is Justice
Am J Public Health 2011;101(Suppl 1):S149-S155
George Weisz
Epidemiology and Health Care Reform: The National Health Survey of 1935-1936
Am J Public Health 2011;101:438-447
2011 AJPH Reviewers of the Year
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MA, MSPH
J. Felipe García-España
Allan Brandt
2012 AJPH Reviewers of the Year
Sara S. Metcalf, PhD
Rima Apple, PhD