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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:06:39 -0400
From: "Allison, Kathleen G." <kallison@LHUP.EDU>
Subject: Call for Nominations 2006 SOPHE Annual Meeting
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Do you know an outstanding health educator?
Nominate Someone You Know for the SOPHE Awards Program
SOPHE is pleased to announce a Call for Nominations for the 2006 SOPHE Awards
Program. All nomination application are available on the SOPHE website and are
due on or before July 31, 2006
Take a look around at your colleagues and students. Many of them are engaged in
a myriad of health education activities and getting results that defy the common
day realities of a lot of challenges with a lot less resources. Now it is your
turn to recognize these achievements and accomplishments in the profession,
through the SOPHE Awards Program through the SOPHE awards, needed recognition
for outstanding professional contributions is applauded. Consider nominating
someone you know for any of the following award categories:
· Distinguished Fellow Award- This award is SOPHE's highest form of recognition
for a Society member and recognizes a person who has made exemplary and lasting
contributions to the field of health education. The award will be presented at
the 2006 SOPHE Annual Meeting Awards Banquet in Boston, MA.
· Health Education Mentor Award- This award recognizes individuals who have
provided excellence in mentorship to health educators in their preparation,
performance, and/or practice. It recognizes individuals who have served to
successfully bridge the gap between practice and research.
· Program Excellence Award- This award recognizes outstanding contributions by a
program (not an agency), in existence for at least three years, to the practice
of health education. Award recipients must demonstrate systematic application of
the following components:
Health education principles including provision of a planned, reinforcing series
of educational experiences over time;
Involvement of the target population in planning and implementation; and
A well-defined evaluation component.
· Chapter Innovation Award- This award of $250 recognizes and publicizes
creative and replicable methods implemented by SOPHE chapters to deliver one or
more core member services: membership; fiscal management; board and leadership
development; communications; continuing education; alignment of chapter and
national strategic plans; and/or bylaws and policies.
· SOPHE Open Society Award- This award will be given each year to recognize an
individual or group who embodies and promotes an Open Society, through research,
practice, and/or teaching.
· Vivian Drenckhahn Student Scholarship Award- This award of $1500 provides
support to both undergraduate and graduate level full-time students in their
pursuit of educational and professional development in health education.
· Graduate Student Research Paper Award- This award is designed to foster
quality graduate student research and to provide a mechanism by which to
recognize outstanding graduate students for creative and innovative research.
The recipient of this award receives $250 and is encouraged to submit the paper
for review to SOPHE's journals, Health Education and Behavior or Health
Promotion Practice.
· SOPHE/CDC Student Fellowship in Injury Prevention and Control- This one-year
fellowship is designed to recognize, assist and train graduate students working
on research or practice-based unintentional injury prevention projects from the
perspective of health education or behavioral sciences. Included is a $1500
stipend for the student's special project, one-year SOPHE membership,
complimentary annual meeting registration, and an opportunity for an oral or
poster presentation about the project at the 2007 SOPHE Annual Meeting in
Washington, DC.
· SOPHE/ATSDR Student Fellowship in Environmental Health Promotion- This
one-year fellowship is designed to recognize, assist and train students working
on research or practice-based environmental health education/health promotion or
environmental justice from the perspective of health education or behavioral
sciences. Included is a $1500 stipend for the student's special project,
one-year SOPHE membership, complimentary annual meeting registration, and an
opportunity for an oral or poster presentation about the project at the 2007
SOPHE Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Nomination packets for these awards are available from the SOPHE's web-site at
http://www.sophe.org/content/awards.asp <https://mail.lhup.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.sophe.org/content/awards.asp>
A complete nomination packet includes an application form, cover letter from the
SOPHE member coordinating the nomination, and support letters from National
SOPHE members in good standing (where required). All correspondence to National
SOPHE should be addressed to: SOPHE Awards Committee, 750 First Street NE, Suite
910, Washington, DC 20002; (202) 408-9804.
Kathleen Allison, PhD, CHES
Assistant Professor, Dept of Health Science
Lock Haven University of PA
kallison@lhup.edu
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