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Applause! Arnold School faculty, students have earned recognition from APHA
October 30, 2013
Dr. Heather Brandt
Dr. Justin Moore
Dr. Heather Brandt of the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior has been selected to receive the Early Career Award during the 141st meeting of the American Public Health Association.
The award, being presented by APHA's Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section, recognizes outstanding contribution to the practice and profession of health education, health promotion and/or health communications.
Dr. Justin Moore, also from HPEB, is the recipient of the Steven P. Hooker Research Award by the Physical Activity Section of APHA. The award, named for the Arnold School's former colleague and director of the Prevention Research Center, is given for the best abstract submitted to the Physical Activity Section of APHA.
Moore's poster presentation is titled Objectively measured physical activity levels of rural, suburban, and urban youth.
Moore has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Public Health for a three-year term. His service will begin at the end of the annual meeting and continue through the 2016 annual meeting.
Others from the Arnold School who will be recognized with awards or have been named to APHA offices and groups:
Dr. Lillian Smith, director of the Office of Public Health Practice, will pass the gavel as Chair of the ASPPH Public Health Practice Coordinators' Council, thereby completing her two-year term as Chair. She will begin her two-year term as Immediate Past-Chair.
In July, Dr. Megan Weis of the S.C. Institute of Medicine and Public Health was selected by the S.C. Public Health Association to a three-year term as the SCPHA Affiliate Representative to APHA. She will attend the Affiliate and APHA Governing Council meetings.
Dr. Linda Hazlett served on the APHA program planning committee as an at-large member for 2013 and has been a Governing Councilor for the Epidemiology Section. After this year's meeting, she will rotate off the Governing Council. She has been elected a Section Councilor for the Epidemiology Section.
Caroline D. Bergeron, a doctoral student in HPEB, has been selected to serve as a student representative on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Public Health.
Aaron Guest, an MPH/MSW candidate, is Chair of the APHA-SA Diversity Committee. During the annual meeting, this committee, along with the Advancement Committee, will hold a professional development panel for those attending the 9th annual National Student Meeting. The focus of the panel will be cultural competence/humility and professionalism. This is one of the main sessions for the 200 students attending the national student meeting. Guest, who is an APHA-SA Campus Liaison at USC, will moderate the session.
At the end of the student meeting, Guest will become the Co-Chair of the APHA-SA Membership Committee. He was awarded a scholarship from the APHA-SA to attend the annual meeting.
Dr. Junxiu Liu, a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, will present a poster, Association of Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, She will receive an award for her research from Delta Omega.
Joni D. Nelson, a doctoral student in HPEB, has been selected as a finalist for the Student Presentation Award given by the Physical Activity Section of the American Public Health Association. Nelson's presentation is titled, Characteristics of successful partnerships to promote physical activity among youth.
