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Title: FNS Award Nominations

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Section/SPIG: Food and Nutrition

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Please Consider Nominating Colleagues for FNS Awards

 

 

Catherine Cowell Award

This esteemed award honors district achievement in the areas of leadership, planning, administration, and mentoring in public health nutrition, with emphasis at the local level.  The recipient of this award has notably answered the unique needs of urban populations and young children.  The Food & Nutrition Section proudly sponsors this award.

 

Mary C. Egan Award

This honor goes to those public health nutritionists who pioneer fresh approaches to public health nutrition, nutrition education, and those groups with special dietary needs.  The Food & Nutrition Section proudly sponsors this award.

 

Excellence in Dietary Guidance Award

This distinction is sponsored by the Food & Nutrition Section and celebrates individuals who have made world-class contributions in dietary guidance formulation, research, education, implementation and/or policy change.

 

Awards Committee Process:

  • Awards committee chair sends out a call for nominations and for Award Committee members.
  • Food & Nutrition Section members send in nomination letters with the cv's for the person nominated and respond to the questions that are provided on the form.
  • Members that have been awarded an award from the Section in the past are not eligible for nomination again.
  • Those members who nominate can be part of the committee but cannot participate in the voting .
  • The Award Committee reviews the materials and makes their recommendations and decisions.
  • A running list of members that were nominated is kept for the following year to increase the pool of future nominations (It might be interesting during the awards dinner to have an activity for participants to get to know each other’s work; some of the committee members were new to the Section and wanted to get to know the members better).
  • The Award Committee chair notifies the awardees and solicits a photo and bio-sketch for the program and also notifies APHA by their deadline (General Timeline: Send out notice March 30, Gather nominations, deadline: April 30, Convene meeting to select Awardees some time before May 30 and let APHA know the names of the awardees by mid-June.
  • The Committee selects who will present the award during the reception.

Please contact 2008 Awards Committee Chair Deirdra Chester (chesterd@ba.ars.usda.gov) for more information.