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Leadership Award:
This award honors the State, Territorial
or Indian Health Service Area Director of Health
Education/Health Promotion or an DHPE
Associate Member whose leadership has
resulted in a demonstrable coalescence of state
and local level constituencies toward the goal
of expanding health promotion/health education
activities in the state. Evidence of changes
in risk prevalence, health status or influence
on national level should be taken into account.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the candidate a State, Territorial, or
Indian Health Service Area Director of Health
Education/Health Promotion or an DHPE Associate
Member?
- Did the candidate demonstrate coalescence
of state and local level constituencies toward
the goal of expanding health education/health
promotion activities in their state?
- If possible, provide additional evidence
regarding risk prevalence, health status or
influence on national level.
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Hod Ogden Medal:
This award honors a person whose
imaginative and creative efforts have positively
influenced the advancement of health education
and health promotion in his/her state or the
nation. The award honors the late Hod Ogden,
whose distinguished career in health education
and leadership provided the groundwork for many
of the chronic disease prevention and health
promotion programs currently funding state and
local health departments today. Hod is the creator
of the mythical health education philosopher
known the world over as Mohan Singh. Hod Ogden
launched national programs on tobacco reduction
and cardiovascular disease prevention and left
a legacy through writing surgeon general's reports
and creating the conference that is now the
National Conference on Health Education and
Health Promotion.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Did the candidate demonstrate the use of
imaginative and creative efforts to advance
health education/health promotion at the state
or national level?
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Evans/Muneoka Award
This award honors a State, Territorial
or Indian Health Service Area Director of Health
Education/Health Promotion or an DHPE
Associate Member who exemplifies consistent
and extraordinary mentoring and professional
support to health promotion and health education
staff; state, local and national colleagues
and/or other members. The award is meant to
honor the memory of members, Karen Evans and
Laurel Muneoka, who lived their professional
lives as professionals who went out of their
way to provide special attention and mentoring
to others they worked with, regardless of status
or setting.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the candidate a State, Territorial, or
Indian Health Service Area Director of Health
Education/Health Promotion or an DHPE Associate
Member?
- Did the candidate demonstrate consistent
and extraordinary mentoring and professional
support for health education/health promotion?
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Health Promotion Medal
of Excellence:
This award honors the achievement of a "state-level"
health education/health promotion director or
health educator whose work has made
a contribution to the state's capacity to apply
science to the field of health education and
health promotion.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the candidate a state level health education/health
promotion director or health educator?
- Did the candidate's work make a contribution
to the state's capacity to apply science to
the field of health education/health promotion?
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National/Regional Collaboration
Award
This award honors national or regional group
efforts that have resulted in evidence
of coalescence between state or community level
constituents in demonstrating innovative health
education and health promotion practices at
the national level.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the nomination for a national or regional
group effort?
- Did the nomination result in the coalescence
between either state or community level constituents?
- Did the nomination demonstrate innovative
health education/health promotion practices
at the national level?
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State/Community Collaboration
Award
This award honors statewide or community group
efforts that have resulted in evidence
of coalescence between state or community level
constituents in demonstrating innovative health
education and health promotion practices at
the state or community level.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the nomination for a statewide or community
group effort?
- Did the nomination result in the coalescence
between either state or community level constituents?
- Did the nomination demonstrate innovative
health education/health promotion practices
at the state or community level?
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Health Promotion
and Education Advocacy Award
This award honors a person for
his/her advocacy to further health education
as a profession and/or who has served as a champion
in promoting the science of health promotion
and disease prevention at the state or national
level. Nominations are also being accepted under
this category for policy makers who promote
prevention efforts in public health.
Final Check - did the candidate that
you are nominating meet either
of the following minimum criteria for the award
nomination?
- Is the nomination for an individual person?
- Did the candidate serve as a champion in
promoting the science of health promotion
and disease prevention at the state or national
level?
Or
- Is the candidate a policy maker who promoted
prevention efforts in public health?
- Does the candidate demonstrate his/her advocacy
to further health education as a profession?
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David Satcher Award
This award honors Dr. David Satcher, former
Surgeon General and CDC Director, whose persistent
efforts focused national attention on evidence
that race and ethnicity correlate with on-going,
and often increasing, health disparities among
U.S. populations. Dr. Satcher was the first
African American Director of the CDC and was
Surgeon General during the release of the Health
People 2010 national health objectives, which
included for the first time a national focus
on reducing health disparities.
The recipient of this award is a person
whose leadership in reducing health disparities
has resulted in the improvement of health promotion
and health education programs at the state or
local level. Through state or local efforts,
the recipient has demonstrated successful program
implementation, which has reduced health disparities
by sharing new knowledge about the causes of
health disparities, translating research to
practice, or using innovative methods of promoting
health and delivering culturally competent and
linguistically specific preventive and/or clinical
services.
Final Check - Did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the nomination for an individual person?
- Did the candidate demonstrate leadership
in reducing health disparities among racial
and ethnic minority populations?
- Has the candidate's work resulted in improved
health education and health promotion programs
at the state or local level?
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Emerging Leader Award
This award honors a current or past DHPE/CDC
intern whose creativity and performance has
positively influenced his/her placement site
activities in health education and promotion.
The nominee demonstrated academic excellence
during her/his internship and work has resulted
in facilitating the placement site's mission
to serve its client.
Final Check - Did the candidate that
you are nominating meet the following minimum
criteria for the award nomination?
- Is the nomination for a current or past
intern that participated in the DHPE/CDC Internship
Program?
- Is the candidate working in the public
health education/promotion field or pursuing
an advanced degree in a related discipline?
- Did the nomination demonstrate innovative
health education/health promotion practices
during the internship?
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