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

• Demonstration of innovative leadership for enhancing excellence, health equity, and inclusiveness in undergraduate academic public health education;
• Exemplary efforts to start or sustain an undergraduate program;
• Innovative teaching techniques using advanced technology;
• Relationships with practice partners in the community;
• Collaboration with other disciplines;
• Relationships with CEPH-accredited graduate schools or programs of public health; and
• Teacher evaluations by students.

Nominees must be full-time faculty with a primary appointment at an ASPPH Undergraduate Network for Education in Public Health member program. UG network members include ASPPH graduate schools and programs that offer BA/BS in public health or related degree, CEPH accredited undergrad institutions, and non-CEPH accredited institutions (view Network Directory).

All nominations must contain the following materials:

• Nominee and nominator contact information;
• Overview statement of nominee’s contributions to undergraduate public health teaching excellence (limit 5,000 characters);
• Nominee’s curriculum vitae; and
• Two letters of support.

• $1,000 Cash Prize
• Complimentary registration for the Undergraduate Public Health and Global Health Education Summit
• Recognition at the Summit

Nominations for this award will be accepted in late Spring 2021, to be awarded at the Undergraduate Summit Fall 2021.

2020

Karin J. Opacich, PhD, MHPE, OTR/L, FAOTA

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

2019

Elahe Nezami, PhD

University of Southern California Programs in Public Health

2018

Daniel S. Gerber, EdD, MPH

University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences

2017

Lauren D. Arnold, PhD, MPH

Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice

2016

Sara Mackenzie, MD, MPH

University of Washington School of Public Health

2014

Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH

Temple University College of Public Health

2013

Karen (Kay) Perrin, PhD, MPH

University of South Florida School of Public Health

2012

Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health