Awards

Pharmacy Section Awards

Each year, the APHA Pharmacy Section (PHARM) recognizes leaders in pharmacy and public health and seeks nominations for the following four awards:

Lifetime Achievement Award

This award was established in 2019 and is given to a current APHA Pharmacy Section member in recognition of their long-standing, significant, and highly meritorious contributions to the field of public health through innovation, advocacy, collaborative partnerships, and/or scholarship. This award honors an individual’s achievements and also serves as an inspiration to others to continually advance public health pharmacy.

Sustained Contributor Award

This award is given to a current APHA Pharmacy Section member who demonstrates a track record of early accomplishments in advancing public health and pharmacy through the application of public health knowledge, practice, partnerships, and/or scholarship. This award provides recognition to a public health or pharmacy professional who has served in their respective field for a minimum of 10 years and is an encouragement to those serving in the field of public health.

Early Career Award

This award is given to a current APHA Pharmacy Section member who demonstrates a track record of early accomplishments in advancing public health and pharmacy through the application of public health knowledge, practice, partnerships, and/or scholarship. This award provides recognition to an early career public health or pharmacy professional who has served in their respective field for a maximum of 10 years.

Stuart Feldman Student Achievement Award

This award is a tribute to Stuart Feldman, PhD, Professor Emeritus of the University of Georgia Colleges of Pharmacy and Public Health and Founding Dean and Professor of Touro College of Pharmacy, New York. Dr. Feldman’s visionary leadership led to the creation of the APHA Pharmacy Special Interest Group and, later, the establishment of the Pharmacy Section. This award recognizes the outstanding achievements and service carried out by a current Pharmacy Section student member. This includes engagement within the Pharmacy Section and can be supported through other activities including policy and advocacy, public health practice, public health research and scholarship, collaborative partnerships, asset-based community development, or streamlined public health service.                                                                                            

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Awards Committee Chair.

Past Award Recipients

Lifetime Achievement Award

  • 2023: Stuart Feldman, PhD
  • 2022: CDR Edward J. Stein, PharmD, MPH, DipACLM
  • 2022: Wafa Samara, PharmD, RPh, FAPhA, FNPhA
  • 2020: Paul Ranelli, BSPharm PhD FAFPE, FAPhA
  • 2020: Barry Bleidt, PhD, PharmD, RPh
  • 2019: Frederick Mayer, RPh, MPH

Sustained Contributor Award

  • 2023: Natalie DiPietro Mager, PharmD, PhD, MPH
  • 2022: LCDR Bryan Wilson, PharmD, MBA
  • 2020: Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH

Early Career Award

  • 2023: Kathryn Marwitz, PharmD, MPH
  • 2020: Chamika Hawkins-Taylor, MHA, PhD
  • 2019: David Koren, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP

Stuart Feldman Student Achievement Award

  • 2022: Joanne Canedo, PharmD, MSPS, PhD candidate
  • 2021: Golnoosh Alipour-Haris, PharmD, MSPS, PhD candidate
  • 2020: Jenna Januszka, PharmD 2021 candidate