Title: ATOD Section Announces Award Winners
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Section/SPIG: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
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The winners of the 2004 Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section awards were announced at the ATOD Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony last November in Washington, D.C. These individuals were chosen because of their noteworthy contributions to the ATOD field and their commitment to reducing overall alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. In each category, the winners exhibited outstanding leadership or produced an outstanding effort to reduce alcohol, tobacco or other drug use, which resulted in significant change within a targeted community. This year’s winners constituted a slate of overachievers who have addressed a wide range of ATOD issues. The following is a summary of the 2004 ATOD Section award winners:
Mary Brolin, MA
Section Leadership Award
Mary Brolin is a Research Associate at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Center for Behavioral Health in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Brolin has worked in the substance abuse field for 14 years evaluating community-based prevention and treatment programs. She is currently collaborating with CSAT to guide states on using data for performance management. She is also conducting several evaluations including two drug courts, several HIV and substance abuse services projects with diverse communities and a substance abuse project for homeless women in New York City. Brolin has a master's degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago. She is also a PhD candidate at the Heller School and expects to receive her degree in May 2005.
Ellen J. Hahn, DNS, MSN
John D. Slade, MD Memorial Advocacy Award
Ellen Hahn of the University of Kentucky is actively involved in ATOD research, particularly regarding tobacco policy issues and the effectiveness of drug abuse prevention. From 1986-2004 she served as a principal investigator, a co-investigator or a project coordinator for 26 studies funded in the amount of more than $1.5 million. She has been a principle author of 17 professional journal articles on various ATOD topics. In addition, Hahn served as a Fellow in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse Program” from 2000 – 2003. She was appointed to the Kentucky Governor’s Expert Panel on Youth Substance Abuse in 2000. Hahn has been actively involved in tobacco policy advocacy in Kentucky. She served for two years as the chairperson of a statewide tobacco control coalition, Kentucky ACTION. More recently, she spearheaded an effort in Lexington to enact a clean indoor air ordinance. This effort, which lasted over two years, entailed working actively with a local coalition, lobbying local politicians and business leaders, guiding strategy sessions, making numerous media appearances and conducting opinion polling. Her efforts lead to passage of the first clean indoor air ordinance in Kentucky, the heart of “tobacco country.” This victory is now serving as a precedence and inspiration for other communities in Kentucky and around the nation.
Robert Denniston, MA
Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Denniston, an individual who has had a long and distinguished career in the ATOD field (but who is definitely not old) and has also provided a lifetime of significant contributions is the recipient of the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award. Denniston currently serves in the Executive Office of the President in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Prior to that, he was deputy director for partnerships of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, on appointment from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He also served as director of the HHS Secretary’s Initiative on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). In addition, our recipient held the position of director of the Division of Prevention Application and Education at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). While at CSAP, he managed the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, a program of media campaigns, print and A/V materials development. He has participated in regional and national conferences, conducted training and technical assistance and developed communications networks with national, state and community organizations. His particular interests are in social marketing, knowledge transfer and the application of environmental approaches to prevention with a special focus on underage drinking. In addition, he served as director of the Division of Prevention and Research Dissemination, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and as Chief of the Information Projects Branch, National Cancer Institute. Denniston has a master’s degree in mass communications and has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is a former ATOD Section Chair and has also held other ATOD Section offices.
The ATOD Section congratulates all of its award winners ,and we hope the selection of these individuals inspires you in your pursuit of excellence in all things ATOD. Now is the time to start thinking about nominations for the 2005 ATOD Section awards. If you would like to nominate someone you think is worthy of any of our awards, or for more information, please contact André Stanley at <stanleag@dhec.sc.gov>.
André G. Stanley, MPH
Awards Committee Chair
ATOD Section, APHA
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