Submit Nominations for 2008 Blum, Vision and Section Service Awards by March 10

Do you admire the planning or policy work done by a colleague or a group? If so, you should consider nominating her or him for a Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section award. Each year, the CHPPD Section, working in conjunction with the American Health Planning Association, accepts nominations until Monday, March 10 in order to present three awards at its annual meeting.

The Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy recognizes an individual, group of individuals, or an organization who/that has demonstrated excellence, creativity and innovation in the development and/or implementation of health policy. The award is in honor of Henrik L. Blum, MD, MPH, professor emeritus of health policy and planning in the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley.

The newly-established Vision Award for Excellence in Health Planning Practice recognizes an individual who has demonstrated excellence, creativity and/or innovation in health planning practice that constitutes a significant contribution to health planning which goes beyond the expectations of routine job performance and is evidenced by accomplishments.

The CHPPD Section Service Award is given to a Section member who has made a significant contribution to the Section's operations and/or other activities.

All awardees receive an inscribed plaque that is presented at an Awards Ceremony during the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, October 25-28 in San Diego. All Section members are welcome and encouraged to submit nominations for any of these awards. The award nomination forms are available at http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/chppd/benefits/award_nominations.htm. 

Please fax or e-mail a copy of the completed form to both Ann Umemoto umemoto@marchofdimes.com, fax: (914) 997-4501, phone: (914) 997-4496 and Priti Irani pri01@health.state.ny.us, fax: (518) 473-0476 , phone: (518) 474-2543.

Also, nominations for the APHA Awards are due April 18, 2008.  Information and nomination forms for these awards are at http://www.apha.org/about/awards/.