Ms. Ellen Yard, MPH, a doctoral student at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio won the ICEHS Best Paper Award for her paper titled: Effects of Time in Competition, Phase of Play, and Field Location on Injury Severity in High School Football. Ms. Yard is a student of Dr. Dawn Comstock. The Student Paper Competition Award is supported, in part, by the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety.

Ted Courtney, Director of Research Operations for the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Sue Gerberich and Lenora Olson, Co-Chairs, ICEHS Student Paper Competition present the award plaque to Ellen Yard.