NOMINATE
YOUR COLLEGUES
Please take
the time to nominate your colleagues for a prestigious APHA Public Health
Education Health promotion Award. Each year public health educators are
awarded at the APHA meeting for their excellence in education, their humor in
teaching, their commitment to health communications and their dedication to
their public health education career.
Being
honored by your professional peers has very special meaning to people.
Acknowledge some of the professionals who have been important to your career or
who, in your mind, have made important contributions to the field by nominating
them for one of these prestigious awards.
The
Public Health Education and Health Promotion section recognizes individuals in
six award categories. The awards include:
Current Section Members Eligible
1. Distinguished
Career Award - for outstanding contribution to the practice and profession
of health education, health promotion and/or health communications. The
awardee must have earned a terminal degree 10 years or more prior to receiving
the award.
2.
Early Career Award - for outstanding contribution to the practice and
profession of health education, health promotion and/or health communications.
The awardee must have earned a terminal degree less than 10 years prior to receiving
the award.
3. Sarah
Mazelis Award - for an outstanding practitioner in health education.
The awardee will have spent at least five years as a health education, health
promotion and/or health communications practitioner.
Current Section and/or APHA member eligible
1. Mayhew
Derryberry Award - for outstanding contribution of behavioral scientists to
the field of health education, health promotion and/or health communications
research or theory.
2. Mohan
Sing Award - for the use of humor to promote better health education,
health promotion and/or health communications practice.
Rogers
Award – for outstanding
contribution to advancing the study and/or practice of public health
communication.
If you have
any questions, please contact Stu Usdan at susdan@ches.ua.edu.