Secretary's Award

2002 Secretary's Award for Innovations in
Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration
In collaboration with the Federation of
Associations of Schools of the Health Professions

The Secretary's Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention recognizes forward-thinking proposals by health professions students and generates creative strategies for addressing goals outlined in HHS' Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health. The program is sponsored by HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions, and is coordinated by FASHP-member AACN.

Top prizes in the 2001-2002 competition went to the following students:

Single Discipline Awards

First Place
St. Louis Medical Waste Incineration: Community Coalition for Clean Air
Kim Edy
Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine

Second Place
Youth on Tobacco Advocacy (YOTA)
Robyn Lee and Seema Bhagat
University of Michigan, School of Public Health

Third Place
Peer Adolescent Lactation Support Group (PALS)
Marsha Baker, Nicole Miller, Ebony Lynch, and DeShuna Dickens
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health

Interdisciplinary Awards

First Place
UCLA Mobile Clinic Project
Kevin Riley, Walter Coppenrath, Koy Parada, and Neelofer Tayyib
University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine and School of Public Health

Second Place
Healthy Transitions: A Dialogue with Prison Women on Health and Well-Being
Kia McLean, Emily Wang, and Victoria Mobley
Duke University, School of Medicine and School of Public Health

Third Place
IDX: An Interdisciplinary Healthcare Experience
Tony Martin, Kathryn Momary, and Kevin Cahill
University of Florida, School of Allied Health, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy


 


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