2010 APHA Aging and Public Health Section Award Winners

2010 APHA Aging and Public Health Section Award Winners

The 2010 Aging & Public Health Section Awards Session was held on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. For our nine Section awards, we had a total of 18 award winners, including honorable mentions. The Aging and Public Health Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Laurence G. Branch, PhD. The 2010 Philip G. Weiler Award for Leadership in Aging and Public Health was awarded to Marcia G. Ory, PhD. Congratulations to all of our award recipients!

Award for Lifetime Achievement

Winner ........ Laurence G. Branch, PhD

Philip G. Weiler Award for Leadership in Aging and Public Health

Winner........ Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH

Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation

Winner........ Carolyn Weissbach, JD, MPH
“Area Geriatric Education Scholars Program for Upper Peninsula Youth (AGES)”

Honorable Mention........ Kathleen Cody, MBA
“Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education (FORE) Put a Brake On Fractures Program”

Aetna Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women and Public Health

Winner........ Corrine R. Leach, PhD, MPH

Aging and Rural Health Research Award

Winner........ Lin Fan, MS
Honorable Mention........ Yu Kang, PhD

Betty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award
Winner........ Nan Tracy Zheng, BS
Honorable Mention........ James B. Kirby, PhD
Honorable Mention........ Sunha Choi, PhD

Erickson Foundation Research Award
Winner........ Perry Edelman, PhD
Honorable Mention........ Matthew L. Smith, PhD, MPH

James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award
Winner........ Shubing Cai, PhD
Honorable Mention........ Holly A. Beard, PhD

Nobuo Maeda International Research Award
Winner........ Keren Ladin, SM
Honorable Mention........ SangNam Ahn, PhD, MPSA

The Laurence G. Branch Doctoral Student Award
funded by the Retirement Research Foundation
Winner........ SangNam Ahn, PhD, MPSA
Honorable Mention........ Tasha Stehling-Ariza, MPH

Retirement Research Foundation Masters Student Research Award
Winner........Jenerius Aminawung, MD,
MPH Honorable Mention........ Sameer Arora, MD, MPH