Title: IH SECTION AWARDS

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Section/SPIG: International Health

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Call for Awards Nominations

Each year, the IH Section recognizes outstanding contributions of APHA members through its Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in International Health and Mid-Career Award. The Section also occasionally recognizes significant contributions through the Award for Outstanding Service to the International Health Section and the Special Award of Recognition. The Section will honor its awardees in Philadelphia at the IH Section Awards Dinner in December. The Section is now seeking nominations for deserving candidates for these awards, to be presented at the IH Section Award Dinner at the 2006 APHA Annual Meeting. We already have a number of excellent nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award, so we are particularly interested in receiving nominations for the Mid-Career Award. If you have any suggestions or know someone who you would like to nominate, please let us know.

The Mid-Career Award is intended to recognize outstanding mid-career professionals in the Section and was awarded to Kate Macintyre in 2004 and Tim Holtz in 2005. The evaluation criteria for the Mid-Career Award include:

- The individual must have committed herself/himself to the promotion and development of primary health care in a cross-cultural setting over a period of 5-15 years [Primary health care is meant here to encompass a broad array of public health issues, including HIV/AIDS prevention and environmental health];
- The individual must have demonstrated creativity in expanding the concepts pertinent to the practice of public health with an international focus; and
- Membership in APHA (preferably primary affiliation with the International Health Section), a State affiliate, or a national public health association that is a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
- No self-nominations allowed.
- Prior winners of the Mid-Career Award include Sarah Shannon, Adnan Hyder, Stephen Gloyd, Luis Tam, Marty Makinen, Colleen Conroy, Mary Ann Mercer, Irwin Shorr, Walter K. Patrick, and Dory Storms.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was created by the IH Section to honor the visionaries and leaders in APHA who have shaped the direction of International Health. The evaluation criteria for the Lifetime Achievement Award include:
- Quality/creativity/innovativeness of the individual’s contributions to the field of International Health;
- The individual’s contributions to the development of APHA or the International Health Section;
- Application of the individual’s work to service delivery (as opposed to primarily theoretical value);
- The individual’s contributions as a leader/visionary/role model;
- The volunteerism/sacrifice associated with the individual’s contributions; and
- Membership in APHA (preferably with primary affiliation with the International Health Section), a State affiliate, or a national public health association that is a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
- No self-nominations are allowed.
Prior winners of the IH Lifetime Achievement Award include Clarence Pearson, Stanley Foster, Joe Wray, Carl Taylor, Milton Roemer, Warren and Gretchen Berggren, John Wyon, Derrick Jelliffe, Tim Baker, Cicely Williams, Bud Prince, Veronica Elliott, Moye Freymann, Jeanne Newman, and Jack Bryant.

The Outstanding Service Award was created to recognize the efforts of those whose service to the IH Section has gone above and beyond the call of duty.

In addition to these three awards for Section members, the IH Section has also bestowed a Special Award of Recognition to notable figures and organizations whose contributions to international health merit attention. In November 2002, the IH Section presented such an award to Dikembe Mutombo of the New Jersey Nets for his support of health issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2001, the Section presented the Special Award of Recognition to the Pan American Health Organization, in honor of the Centennial Anniversary of its founding. The Outstanding Service Award and the Special Award of Recognition are occasional awards that are not usually given every year and have no set criteria.

Award nominations should include a letter explaining why the individual nominated should receive the award and the curriculum vitae of the nominee. Nominations should be submitted to the Awards Committee Chair Kate Tulenko, at ktulenko@worldbank.org, by May 2, 2006.

--Kate Tulenko, MD, MPH, Chair, Awards Committee, E-Mail: ktulenko@worldbank.org