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Awards

Nominate your heroes, peers, students, or trainees for an APHA Ethics Section Award

The APHA Ethics Section sponsors the Distinguished Career Award, Outstanding Practice in Public Health Award, and Student & New Career Award in Public Health Ethics. All APHA members are welcome to make nominations. Nominees are not required to be an APHA member at the time of nomination, but would have to be a member by October 2024 to receive an award.  An individual may not receive the same award more than once. Self-nominations are welcome, but must include a support letter by someone other than the self-nominee.

Application: Please apply or nominate someone for the Distinguished Career, Outstanding Practice, and Student & New Career Awards by May 17, 2024 at 12 a.m. PST.

Questions? Contact ethicsprogramchair@gmail.com

Award Categories

Distinguished Career Award

Description: This award honors sustained and substantial contributions to ethics in the area of public health. These contributions include work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others, integrated ethics into public health, promoted ethics in public health policy, increased public understanding of public health ethics, or significantly contributed to ethics in public health within or outside APHA.  The recipient of this award will have spent at least a decade of full-time work involving the practice, teaching or research of public health ethics. The awardee will be invited to receive the award at the Ethics Section business meeting during the APHA Annual Meeting.

Outstanding Practice in Public Health Ethics

Description: This award recognizes a public health professional whose recent public health practice (within the last three years) had a significant impact on the support for, recognition of, or application of ethics in public health within the past three years. While the work towards this impact may have taken longer to achieve, it includes achievements such as application of an ethical framework in a specific area of public health, integration of public health ethics into practice, demonstration of the impact of the application of public health ethics in teaching or research, or actively promoting public health ethics on the state, national or international level. The awardee will be invited to receive the award at the Ethics Section business meeting during the APHA Annual Meeting.

Student & New Career Award for Public Health Ethics

Description: This award recognizes students (undergraduate or graduate) or new professionals (with three or fewer years of experience in the field) who are living or going to school within the regional area of the upcoming APHA Annual Meeting location (Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 27-30 2024). The awardee(s) will demonstrate an application of the practice of public health ethics through their studies or work experience to-date, for one or a series of public health ethics-related projects or service. The awardee(s) will be invited to receive their award at the Ethics Section business meeting during the annual meeting. Additionally, they will receive a scholarship covering the cost of annual meeting registration fees. Note: The number of awardees/scholarships will be dependent upon funding availability.