Philadelphia, PA – The winners of the 2005 Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section awards were announced at the ATOD Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony last December in Philadelphia. 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. These individuals constituted a slate of overachievers who have addressed a wide range of ATOD issues. The following is a summary of the 2005 ATOD Section award winners.
André G. Stanley, MPH, Section Leadership Award
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| André G. Stanley, MPH, Winner 2006 ATOD Section Leadership Award |
André Stanley is currently the cultural competence/special projects coordinator of the Office of Minority Health at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control in Columbia. In this capacity, he coordinates cultural competence planning and training, makes policy recommendations and provides assessment and evaluation for minority health initiatives in South Carolina. For the past five years, Stanley has been chair of the ATOD Awards Committee. He is responsible for leading ATOD's efforts to seek out, recognize and honor outstanding contributors to the ATOD field with awards fitting their achievements. Stanley also has 10 years of experience working in the tobacco control movement serving as project manager for the South Carolina – American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (Project ASSIST) for Cancer Prevention and as a grants liaison officer with the SmokeLess States National Tobacco Policy Initiative funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and headquartered at the American Medical Association in Chicago. Stanley earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Clemson University in microbiology and a Master of Public Health degree from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.Penny Norton, MA, Slade Memorial Advocacy Award
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| Penny Norton, MA, Winner 2006 ATOD Slade Memorial Advocacy Award |
Penny Norton is executive director of F. A. C. E. and a national spokesperson on alcohol policy and alcohol-related issues. She is highly respected for the development of compelling public information resources on alcohol and consults with a variety of state and national organizations, health and medical groups and community coalitions. Norton has established a prominent national speaking reputation by being honest, frank and direct about community actions that are needed to successfully reduce alcohol-related problems. She has served as a part-time college instructor at several Michigan colleges and universities and has been a guest lecturer at a number of college campuses throughout the country.Tracie Barnett, PhD, Best Student Abstract
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| Tracie Barnett, PhD, Winner 2006 ATOD Best Student Abstract |
Tracie Barnett is currently pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Promotion in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Montreal. Her fellowship is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Barnett obtained both her master’s and doctoral degrees from McGill University in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her research interests have always focused on the etiology and determinants of behavioral cardiovascular risk factors in children, particularly in the areas of physical inactivity, obesity and tobacco use. More recently, she has incorporated a socio-ecological perspective to her analyses, investigating how environmental influences from schools and neighborhoods influence children’s behaviors. Barnett’s winning abstract was entitled: Do school smoking policies influence student tobacco use?Judith P. Wilkenfeld, JD, Lifetime Achievement Award
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| Judith P. Wilkenfeld, JD, Winner 2005 ATOD Lifetime Achievement Award |
Judith Wilkenfeld began working on tobacco control in the early 1980s as the individual responsible for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Tobacco Control Program. Virtually everything the FTC accomplished with regard to tobacco from the early 1980s until 1994 was the direct result of her efforts. She continually battled a bureaucracy that did not see tobacco as a priority and internal economists who sought to restrict government involvement in the tobacco issue. From the FTC, Wilkenfeld became a special advisor for tobacco policy in the Office of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. She was part of the top policy group that formulated the agency’s assertion of jurisdiction over tobacco products and played a leading role in the development of the FDA's far-ranging tobacco control regulation. Wilkenfeld became vice chair of the World Health Organization’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Tobacco Regulation in 2002, the only non-scientist appointed to the committee. After retiring from federal service, Wilkenfeld joined the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, leading the Campaign’s efforts to secure the first-ever global tobacco-control treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.Charyn D. Sutton, BS, Lifetime Achievement Award
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| Charyn D. Sutton, BS, Winner 2005 ATOD Lifetime Achievement Award |
Charyn Sutton departed life on Dec. 30, 2004. During her extraordinary life, Sutton was a communications consultant concentrating in health care, disease control and prevention, youth services, criminal justice, community-based economic development and consumer services. She focused on reaching racially and economically diverse audiences and constituencies. Sutton was executive director of the Onyx Group, a consulting firm specializing in tobacco prevention for African Americans. Under her direction, Onyx staff and consultants worked extensively in the area of tobacco prevention and control – facilitating focus groups, providing technical assistance in the development of local coalitions, organizing conferences, providing skills training, writing and editing manuals and developing mass media campaigns. HIGXYZ39HIGZYXSutton served as the media coordinator for the successful community-based effort in 1990 that prevented the introduction of "Uptown," a cigarette brand designed specifically for African Americans. She was a founding member of the Uptown Coalition for Tobacco Control and Public Health and of the National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI). She coordinated the Quit Today! media project that focused on smoking cessation for African Americans using radio and was one of the authors of Pathways to Freedom: Winning the Fight against Tobacco, an African American quit smoking and community mobilization guide. She was a contributing author to the 1998 Surgeon General’s Report that looked at smoking and racial/ethnic minorities. Sutton was also the architect and primary author of Breathe Free, a booklet designed to help families and communities deal with the issue of secondhand tobacco smoke – especially in African American households. Sutton was a magna cum laude graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and attended the Temple University Graduate School of Communications and Theater, with a major in journalism.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 2006 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 or visit us online at www.hhd.org/apha and click “awards.”
André G. Stanley, MPH
Awards Committee Chair
ATOD Section, APHA
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