Congratulations 2011 CHPPD Section Award Winners

Vision Award for Excellence in Health Planning to John Steen for his work with health systems planning, health policy and regulatory aspects of planning. John played an important role for many of the accomplishments of the Health Systems Agency of NYC as its assistant director and as executive director of a regional health planning agency in New Jersey, and wrote an Issue Brief on medical outcomes research that initiated a series of report cards for medical outcomes that continues today.  In all of these capacities, his greatest contribution has been his vision of how the public’s health might be improved when a farsighted government provides community health planning roles to ordinary citizens in their communities.

Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy to E. Richard Brown, PhD, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and a professor. He founded the Center in 1994. It has since become one of the nation's leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information and analysis on California's population. Dr. Brown has a long history in the analysis and development of public policies in the United States and in California, focusing particularly on health care reform and health insurance coverage. Dr. Brown is actively using survey results to push for the need for CHIS-like state and local health surveys, and has organized a special session for CHPPD this year outlining the study and how state and federal surveys could be coordinated to be able to identify health disparities and monitor progress in achieving the goals of national health care reform at the local, state and national levels.

Best Masters Level Abstract Award to Vicky Tiglias for her study “Improving Patient Care at Community Health Centers Using an Electronic Health Record.”

 Section Award for Health Policy Leadership to

Section Award For Excellence in Communications to Sami Kamal Jarrah for coordinating and reaching out to members for quarterly newsletter.  Sami also initiated and led the effort to develop the Section brochure.

Section Award for Student Leadership awarded to Russell

 Section Award for Annual Meeting Program Planning               

to Ijeoma Nwachuku, PhD, MPH for engaging members in Annual Meeting program planning. She reached out across sections, and negotiated with members to accommodate their needs. 

Section Service Award for Excellence in Communications 

Section Award for Membership Engagement

to Veronica Uzoebo, EdD, for working diligently on the Section’s photo-journal project and reaching out to recognize members for their achievements.