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At the Annual Meeting of the California Public Health Association – North, Dr. Ellen Shaffer was presented the Helen Rodriguez-Trias “Lighting the Way” Award. Ellen received this award for her “… work in public health, specifically her efforts in mobilizing multiple constituencies to action to assure universal access to a quality health care and public health system. Ellen has made a tremendous difference in the fight for achieving the most progressive, equitable national health reform legislation possible, under less than ideal circumstances. She has been a leader in articulating the special needs of women and children in this process and has gone out of her way to include women’s advocacy groups in the process of developing positions and making their presence felt within Congress and the Obama administration. Finally, she has been a tireless advocate, promoting public health and environmental and occupational health concerns within the context of our international trade agreements that has also furthered the interests of women within and without the United States.”

Congratulation,s Ellen! Your leadership, persistence and passion are rewarded with this distinguished award.

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Dr. Alison Hughes is one of the recipients of the Rosa Parks Living History Makers Award for improving the lives of others in the Tucson community. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recognized 25 honorees for their contributions to the Tucson community through advocacy, health, education, arts and environment, public government service, business, and faith-based efforts. The honorees from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona (http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/) were recognized for their community advocacy and leadership contributions in the area of health.

Dr. Hughes is director emeritus of the Rural Health Office where she also directed the Rural Hospital Flexibility Program for a decade prior to shifting her focus toward community development activities. She is an active faculty member at the Zuckerman College of Public Health and manages a graduate student rural policy practicum project.  Hughes remains associate director of Outreach for the Arizona Telemedicine Program, a position she
has held since the program's inception.  She is an active member of the Black Women's Task Force of Southern Arizona, and serves on the boards of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Borderlands Theater, the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, the Arizona Rural Health Association, the Pima County-Tucson Women's Commission, and the Catalina Vista Neighborhood Association.