Awards

Trong Nguyen Memorial Award for Student Leadership

The Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award was established to recognize the significant leadership contribution of a student in public health or a related field.  The award, officially established in April of 2007 by the APHA Student Assembly leadership in memory of Trong D. Nguyen, will be presented annually by the American Public Health Association Student Assembly. The award was created in honor of one of the APHA Student Assembly's founding members who was tragically killed in a car accident in 2006. Applications will be accepted annually in June by the APHA Student Assembly board.

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Past Trong Nguyen Memorial Award Recipients are:

• 2007 Lissa Knudsen, MPH, CHES

APHA-SA Annual Meeting Student Scholarship

The APHA-SA Annual Meeting Student Scholarship Fund was started in 2005 with the goal of increasing student attendance at the APHA Annual Meeting. In its first year, 4 scholarships were awarded to students to assist with the costs of registration for the meeting, and this year, we were able to support 11 students through this scholarship fund.

Past Student Scholarship Award recipients are:

• 2007
  • Keri Welsh
  • Lori Palen
  • Jessica Beaman
  • Heather Clayton
  • Elizabeth Cooper
• 2006
  • Megan Canavera, RD, University of Cincinnati, Universal elementary school-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity
  • Annie Chu, BA, Harvard University, Health-related Quality of Life for children with birth defects in China
  • Yola Patricia Duhaney, RN, BSN, Barry University, Obesity and overweight in Black Women: Assessing the effectiveness of a faith-based screening program
  • Negar Elmieh, MS, MPH, University of British Columbia, Role of lifestyle characteristics and risk perceptions in preventing West Nile virus disease
  • Julia Eminger, BA, Indiana University, Enhancing stress reduction interventions through the exploration of working mothers' determinants for practicing meditation
  • Naomi Goodman, MPHc, Boston University, Compassionate research: Exploring answers to ethical questions
  • Tilly A. Gurman, MPH, Johns Hopkins University, Let's get it on: Implications of sexual content in African American situation comedies
  • Andrew Horowitz, BS, Brown University, Assessment of physicians' teaching of testicular self-examination in the outpatient setting
  • Jaqueline Leung, BA, University of Iowa, Perspectives on health: Findings from a qualitative study on migrant farm workers in Iowa
  • Andreea Seicean, Case Western Reserve University, Healthcare of elderly legal immigrants
  • Jessi Westling, University of Hawaii, Generation Sex: STI education and prevention

• 2005
  • Rotrease Regan Yates, MPH, UCLA, HIV/AIDS knowledge and behavior among African-Americans in California
  • J. Nwando Onyejekwe, MD, MPH, Harvard University, Assessment of support for school-based sexuality education in Lynn, MA
  • Julie Lager, MS, Texas A&M University, Relationship among religious coping, psychosocial factors, diabetes management, and quality of life among individuals with type 2 diabetes
  • Sabrina M. Charles, BA, Yale University and Harvard University, Contracting with private health clinics: Promoting community benefit ideals