Awards

Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award For Student Leadership

 

The American Public Health Association Student Assembly is now accepting nominations for the second annual Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award.

 

The Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award was established to recognize the significant leadership contribution of a student in public health or a related field.  The award, officially established in April of 2007 by the APHA Student Assembly leadership in memory of Trong D. Nguyen, will be presented annually by the American Public Health Association Student Assembly.

 

Trong D. Nguyen, MHA, joined the Government of Canada in 1991 and spent much of his public service career at Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada where he was devoted to policy issues related to environmental health, product safety, quarantine and migration, health security, bioterrorism, emergency preparedness and response, public health system renewal, Canada-U.S. relations, and was a manager of strategic policy and planning. Trong’s career was left unfinished as he and his daughter were killed in a tragic automobile crash in February 2006. Trong had studied health administration at the University of Ottawa where he received the Robert Wood Johnson Award for the student most likely to contribute valuable service to the health administration discipline.  While a doctoral student in health policy at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Trong was a founding member of the Public Health Student Caucus (PHSC), the organization that later became the APHA Student Assembly. He was an active member of the APHA until the time of his death in 2006, and a member of the Ottawa Hospital Research Ethics Board and served as Director and Webmaster for the National Capital Region Chapter of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. Trong was a quiet but determined leader with a great sense of humor and a fantastic appetite for life.

 

Under the terms established for the Nguyen Award, the Student Assembly will recognize one student who has made a significant leadership contribution in the field of public health. This can be at any school or at any organization at the national, state, or local level. Neither academic credentials nor grades will be a factor in selecting the awardees. Nominees will be judged by a committee of reviewers based on a personal essay about their public health leadership accomplishment and at least one letter of recommendation. Nominees must be enrolled full time in an academic program in public health or a related field, and be a student member of APHA at nomination due date.

 

The award consists of a plaque, one-year APHA membership, annual meeting registration, and a $250 stipend for travel and lodging to attend the APHA 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 29-November 2, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The recipient will be honored at the APHA-SA Welcome and Orientation Session on Monday, October 31st from 12:30 – 2:00 pm.

 

2011 Award Recipient:

 

    Mercy Laurino, MS CGC

    University of Washington

 

2010 Award Recipient:

      

    Lynn Huynh, MBA, MPH

    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

 2009 Award Recipient: 

       

    Byron D. Hughes

    Master of Public Health Student

    Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

 

                  

 

 Past Trong Nguyen Memorial Award Recipients are:

 

  • 2008 Robert Nelb
  • 2007 Lissa Knudsen, MPH, CHES

    APHA-SA Annual Meeting Student Scholarship

    The APHA-SA Annual Meeting Student Scholarship Fund was started in 2005 with the goal of increasing student attendance at the APHA Annual Meeting. In its first year, 4 scholarships were awarded to students to assist with the costs of registration for the meeting, and this year, we were able to support 11 students through this scholarship fund.

    • 2009 Recipients
      • Shubha Bhat
        Iodized salt and child growth: Isolating causality and implications for government policy in India
        (#209559)
      • Marie Boman
        Family Environment, Social Capital and Smoking among Brazilian Migrants in the Boston
        Metropolitan Area (#204982)
      • Susan Darlow
        Race Differences in Risk Perception and Weight Perception among Female Health Center
        Patients (#208092)
      • Lianne Estefan
        Think about family: A critical review of the intersection of child maltreatment and domestic
        violence (#207356)
      • Aarti Patil
        A Short, Intensive Educational Intervention to Improve Spanish Communication Skills of Medical Students Entering the Clinical Years (#203020)
      • Niketa Williams
        Experiences with Decision-Making for Microbicide Clinical Trial Enrollment among Women in
        Lusaka, Zambia (#204229)

    Past Student Scholarship Award recipients are:

    • 2008
      • Gabrielle Foley
        Western New York Wellness Works Regional Resource Center (WNYWWRRC):
        Measuring and Evaluating the Health of Rural, Minority and Underserved
        Worksites in Western New York. (#180074)
      • Rachel Hart
        Prenatal care: A localized view of language barriers (#178767)
      • Herpreet Kaur Thind
        Review of training programs for medical practitioners to improve patient adherence
        (#181891)
      • Jamie Kimberly Lok
        Gender differences in a smoking cue-provoked craving (#182203)
      • Ghazal Soleimani
        Exposure to Neighborhood Disorder and Risk Behaviors in a Sample of South African
        Youths (#176418)
      • Stephanie B Wheeler
        Comparative cost-effectiveness of reversible family planning methods following
        emergency contraception use in the Medicaid population (#186103)
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