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Each year, the Community Health Planning
and Policy Development Section accepts nominations until May 15 in order to present three awards at its annual meeting:
These awards are presented at an Awards Ceremony
during the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.
All section members are welcome and encouraged to submit nominations
for any of these awards.
Below are descriptions of each award as well as
their respective nomination forms.
In order to email your nomination, you may copy-and-paste
the appropriate form from this webpage into an email message,
fill in the blanks, then send it to to Ann and Sue as described
below. Or, you may click of the appropriate title in each award
to download a Portable Display Format (PDF) version of the nomination
form, print it, type or legibly print the nominee information,
then send to Ann and Sue below.
Please email or fax completed forms to both:
Ann Umemoto umemoto@marchofdimes.com,
fax: 914-997-4501, and
Sue Myers sue.myers@healthequityassociates.org.
If you would like further
information, please feel free to call either Ann, 914-997-4496,
or Sue, 866-432-6303.
Henrik L.
Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy
In Honor of Henrik L. Blum,
MD, MPH:
Dr. Henrik Blum is Professor Emeritus of Health
Policy and Planning in the School of Public Health at the University
of California at Berkeley. He has been a champion of health
care equity, and through the use of social action organizing
skills, has incorporated social and economic concepts into the
development of and implementation of health care policy and
delivery in a changing environment.
Dr. Blum has served as consultant to, or member of committees
of the National Institutes of Health, American Public Health
Association, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, USAID, and the World Health Organization.
He has been active in various local, state, and national government
and voluntary health agencies, including board membership in
the Bay Area United Crusade, Board/Chair of Alta Bates Hospital,
HEALS HMO, and Coalition for Elders Independence; and has served
as a member and consultant to the Committee on Evolving Trends
of the California Medical Association and member of the Board
of the Over 60 Health Center. In addition, Dr. Blum served APHA
as Vice President (USA) in 1990.
Dr. Blum has also been active in innovative academic programs,
and from 1991 to 1994 he was interim Chairman of the Health
and Medical Sciences Program that includes an experimental medical
school, the UC Berkeley -UCSF Joint Medical Program. He has
also held teaching appointments at Johns Hopkins and Stanford
University Medical Schools, and was a visiting Professor at
West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China.
Awards include the American Public Health Association Sedgwick
Memorial Medal, the American Health Planning Association Schlesinger
Award, the American Optometric Society Apollo Award, the Berkeley
Citation of the University of California, and a Fulbright Scholarship
in Sweden.
Purpose of the Award:
To recognize an individual, group of individuals, or an organization
who/that has demonstrated excellence, creativity, and innovation
in the development and/or implementation of health policy.
An individual, group of individuals, or an organization that
through their action has significantly heightened the awareness
and debate of a key health issue by raising the issue to a
national level for action may also be recognized through the
award.
Criteria:
The award will be made to an individual for his/her personal
accomplishment or for a group or organizational accomplishment
that has been managed or facilitated by the individual.
The recipient need not be a member of the American Public
Health Association, Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Section. .
The individual or organization must have made a significant
and noteworthy contribution to the practice of policy development
and/or implementation through professional effort, personal
work, or voluntary service, which demonstrates excellence
as judged by his/her peers.
The award may recognize sustained efforts over a period
of time or a single outstanding contribution. .
The accomplishment must demonstrate excellence, creativity,
and innovation in policy development and/or implementation
that addresses a significant health-related issue. Research
projects and work dealing with policy are eligible for recognition.
Health Policy is defined as policy that significantly
impacts the organization, delivery, or financing of health
care service provision at a national, regional, state, or
local level. It includes systems development activities,
regulation, legislative efforts, administrative processes,
and planning aimed at promoting and improving health and/or
achieving a rational allocation of health care resources.
Policy is also considered to be outcome oriented and focuses
on content, both intended and resulting rather than on methodology,
and can result from the work of community leaders, volunteers,
professionals, facilitators, as well as planners or other
health care practitioners. .
Nomination and Selection Process:
The CHPPD Section Awards Committee will conduct the nominations
process and make the awards in a manner consistent with
the APHA and CHPPD Section by-laws.
Nominations will be solicited by the Awards Committee
between January 1 and May 15 of the year in which the
award will be given. Solicitation will be announced via
the CHPPD Section newsletter, website, and listserve; and
other methods decided upon by the Committee. .
Nominations will be submitted to the Chair of the Committee
on the form included with the solicitation announcement.
Only nominations submitted on the nomination form will be
accepted. Any nomination received after May 15 will be
returned to the sender.
Section elected officers including the Chair, chair-elect
and Secretary, and members of the Awards Committee are not
eligible to receive the award in the year of their terms
of office or committee membership. .
The nominee may not be a previous recipient of the CHPPD
Excellence in Policy award.
Form and Frequency of the Award:
One award may be made per year. In very unusual circumstances,
two awards may be made in one year upon unanimous recommendation
of the Awards Committee and concurrence of the CHPPD Section
Chair.
If no nominations sufficiently meet the criteria to merit
an award, the Awards Committee may at its discretion not
make an award. .
NOMINATION FORM FOR THE HENRIK L. BLUM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
IN HEALTH POLICY
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| This nomination is made to recognize
development and/or implementation of public health policy
in the area(s) of (please check all that apply): |
| _______ national health |
| _______ regional health |
| _______ state health |
| _______ local health |
| _______ health care systems development
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| _______ health care regulation |
| _______ health care legislation/legislative
efforts |
| _______ administrative processes/planning
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or development accomplishment for which this individual
is being nominated. Please include a description of
the impacts that the policy has on public health planning
or service provision. If this nomination is being made
for a research project or for work dealing with planning
theory, please describe how the theory has been utilized
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James
R. Kimmey Award for Excellence in Health Planning Practice
Purpose of the Award: .
To recognize an individual who has demonstrated excellence,
creativity, and/or innovation in health planning practice
that constitutes a significant contribution to health planning
which goes beyond the expectations of routine job performance
and is evidenced by accomplishments. This award is given
jointly with the American Health Planning Association.
Criteria: .
The award will be made to an individual for his/her personal
accomplishment or to an organization for a group or organizational
accomplishment that has been managed or facilitated by the
individual.
The recipient need not be a member of the American Public
Health Association, Community Health Planning and Policy
Development Section; or the American Health Planning Association
(AHPA).
The individual must have made a significant and noteworthy
contribution to the practice of health planning through
professional effort, personal work, or voluntary service,
which demonstrates excellence as judged by his/her peers.
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The award may recognize sustained efforts over a period
of time or a single outstanding contribution.
The accomplishment must be practice oriented and demonstrate
excellence, creativity, and innovation in the application
of planning methods that address a significant health-related
issue in a practice setting. Research projects and work
dealing with planning theory are eligible for recognition
if they have been applied in practice. .
Health planning practice is broadly defined to include
comprehensive health planning; health systems planning;
regulatory aspects of planning; strategic planning; program
planning; and community planning, organizational development
and capacity building aimed at promoting and improving health,
and achieving a rational allocation of health care resources.
Planning practice is process oriented, problem focused and
generally conducted at the local level but can occur at
a regional, state, or national level. Innovation in planning
practice can be based solely on the methods and process
aspects, and may not have an immediate outcome. It can be,
but is not necessarily policy oriented; rather, it focuses
on the doing of practice.
Nomination and Selection Process: .
The CHPPD Section Awards Committee will conduct the nominations
process and make the awards in a manner consistent with
the APHA and CHPPD Section by-laws.
Nominations will be solicited by the Awards Committee
between January 1 and May 15 of the year in which the
award will be given. Solicitation will be announced via
the CHPPD Section newsletter, website, and listserve; AHPA
newsletter, website, listserve, and membership mailings;
and other methods decided upon by the Committee. An announcement
will also be sent to the Executive Director/President of
the American Health Planning Association.
The Awards Committee for this award will comprise representatives
of both CHPPD and AHPA, some of whom may have membership
in both organizations, but will include at least one single-membership
representative of each organization. The Committee shall
also include the CHPPD Section Chair and the President of
AHPA.
Nominations will be submitted to the Chair of the Committee
on the form included with the solicitation announcement.
Only nominations submitted on the nomination form will be
accepted. Any nomination received after May 15 will be
returned to the sender. .
Section elected officers including the Chair, chair-elect
and Secretary, and members of the Awards Committee are not
eligible to receive the award in the year of their terms
of office or committee membership.
The nominee may not be a previous recipient of the CHPPD
Excellence in Planning practice award.
Form and Frequency of the Award:
One award may be made per year. In very unusual circumstances,
two awards may be made in one year upon unanimous recommendation
of the Awards Committee and concurrence of the CHPPD Section
Chair. .
If no nominations sufficiently meet the criteria to merit
an award, the Awards Committee may at its discretion not
make an award.
The recipient will receive an inscribed plaque to be presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association
Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section.
NOMINATION FORM FOR THE
JAMES R. KIMMEY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH PLANNING
PRACTICE
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| This individual has made
a significant and noteworthy contribution to health
policy through: |
| _______professional effort |
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| This nomination is made
to recognize: |
| _______ sustained efforts over a period
of time |
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| _______ a single outstanding contribution
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to recognize accomplishment in the area(s) of (please
check all that apply): |
| _______ comprehensive health planning
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| _______ regulatory aspects of planning
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| _______ strategic planning |
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| _______ program planning |
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| _______ community planning,
organizational development and capacity |
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for which this individual is being nominated. Please
include a description of the practice setting in which
the accomplishment was achieved, and how planning
methods have been actively utilized to address a specific
health related. If this nomination is being made for
a research project or for work dealing with planning
theory, please describe how the theory has been transferred
to a practice setting. |
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CHPPD
Section Service Award
Purpose of the Award:
To recognize a Section member who, through dedication and
exceptional effort has made a significant contribution to
the ongoing activities of the Community Health Planning
and Policy Development Section.
Criteria:
The recipient must be a current member of the Community
Health Planning and Policy Development Section.
The award may recognize either sustained efforts over
a period of time or a single contribution requiring exceptional
concentrated effort. .
The contribution acknowledged does not have to be made
in the year the award is given.
Nomination and Selection Process:
Nominations may be made by any current member or officer
of the Section. The Awards Committee will establish a nominations
process consistent with APHA and CHPPD by-laws.
Selection will be made by the majority vote of the Awards
Committee. .
Section elected officers including the Chair, Chair-elect
and Secretary, and members of the Awards Committee are not
eligible to receive the award during their terms of office
or committee membership.
Form and Frequency of the Award:
A single award will be made annually. More than one award
can be made at the unanimous recommendation of the Committee
with concurrence from the Section Chair, Chair-elect, and
Secretary.
The recipient will receive an inscribed plaque to be presented
at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association
Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section.
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NOMINATION FORM FOR THE
CHPPD SECTION SERVICE AWARD
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