Awards

Nominations should include a description of the nominee’s outstanding contributions in:

• Addressing community needs through education, practice, and/or research;
• Development and implementation of exceptional programs that engage a community to improve public health; and
• Ongoing commitment to community service as reflected in programs and initiatives that are responsive to community needs and exhibit a meaningful partnership with the community (or communities).

The types of programs appropriate for consideration may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Demonstration of the institution’s mission, vision, and core values as it relates to community engagement;
• Community service projects developed and delivered by faculty, students, practitioners, and alumni that are explicitly part of the institution’s mission;
• Innovative, scholarly, evidence-based programs that engage a community to improve health;
• Development, integration, and application of new knowledge to improve public health in the population and practice in the community;
• Scholarship that includes discovery, synthesis, integration, and application to public health practice;
• Leadership focusing institutional and community resources to prevent injuries and diseases and to respond to public health needs;
• Programs that use the unique assets and resources of the institution to address continuing educational, economic, and/or community identified needs; and
• Programs that address social justice issues in a public health-related context.

• Nominees must be a current ASPPH-member, CEPH-accredited school or program of public health. View the list of ASPPH-member institutions.
• ASPPH-member schools and programs are eligible to be nominated if they have not received the award previously. Schools and programs selected as finalists can reapply in two years.

Nominations can be submitted by any individual (inside or outside the nominated institution), but self-nominations are expected. The nomination package must contain the following materials:

• Nominee and nominator contact information;
• An overview statement introducing the program(s) and outlining why the institution should be considered (limit 5,000 characters);
• A narrative description (not to exceed six pages) of the nominee’s community-based program(s), including: an overview of the institution’s commitment to community based programs; descriptions of the programs and their impact on the institution and the community; the participation of faculty, staff, students and/or alumni; and a description of how the activities are supported;
• Two letters from outside the institution, preferably from community-based partners, describing the programs and their impact on the community.

The Award Recipient Receives:

• $5,000 Cash Prize (intended to be distributed by the awardee to one or more community partners);
• An Award Plaque;
• Recognition at the Awards Ceremony;
• Ability to showcase a video of awardee’s community engagement at the ASSPH annual meeting.

The Finalist Receives:

• Recognition at the Awards Ceremony.

Nominations for 2022 will be accepted beginning in August 2021.

2020

National Taiwan University College of Public Health and University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health

2020

The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health

2019

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2018

Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health