The Ethics Section sponsors up to four awards annually. As a Section, we count on our members to nominate their outstanding peers for these awards.
Distinguished Career Award
This award honors sustained and substantial contributions to ethics in the area of public health. These contributions include work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others, integrated ethics into public health, promoted ethics in public health policy, increased public understanding of public health ethics, or significantly contributed to ethics in public health within or outside APHA. The recipient of this award will have spent at least a decade of full-time work involving the practice, teaching or research of public health ethics. The awardee will be invited to receive the award at the Ethics Section business meeting during the APHA Annual Meeting.
Outstanding Practice in Public Health Ethics
This award recognizes a public health professional whose recent (within the past three years) public health practice had a significant impact on the support for, recognition of or application of ethics in public health. While the work towards this impact may have taken longer to achieve, it includes achievements such as application of an ethical framework in a specific area of public health, integration of public health ethics into practice, demonstration of the impact of the application of public health ethics in teaching or research, or actively promoting public health ethics on the state, national or international level. The awardee will be invited to receive the award at the Ethics Section business meeting during the APHA Annual Meeting.
Student & New Career Award for Public Health Ethics
This award recognizes students (undergraduate or graduate) or new professionals with three or fewer years of experience in the field and living or going to school within the regional area of the upcoming APHA Annual Meeting location. The awardee(s) will exhibit an application of the practice of public health ethics through their studies or work experience to-date, for one or a series of public health ethics-related projects or service. The awardee(s) will be invited to receive their award at the Ethics Section business meeting during the annual meeting. Additionally, they will receive a scholarship covering the cost of annual meeting registration fees. Note: The number of awardees/scholarships will be dependent upon funding availability.
Student Abstract Award
This award recognizes a student (undergraduate or graduate) who submitted the highest scoring abstract among its student peers to the Ethics Section for consideration in its upcoming annual meeting. No application form is required, but students must make sure to identify themselves as students and presenting/first authors when submitting abstracts. The awardee will receive a scholarship covering the cost of annual meeting registration fees, dependent upon funding availability.