ASPPH Early Career Research Excellence Award

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 ASPPH AWARD WINNERS

2025 Award Recipient

Amanda K. Gilmore, PhD

Georgia State University School of Public Health

The ASPPH Early Career Research Excellence Award recognizes an outstanding early-career investigator. The award is given annually to a full-time faculty member within 10 years of her or his last formal training (not including postdoctoral research) from an ASPPH-member, CEPH-accredited school or program of public health.

Criteria for Award

Nominations should include a description of the nominee’s outstanding contributions in:

The demonstration of innovative leadership for enhancing excellence, health equity, and inclusiveness in early career academic public health research.
Exemplary and documented scholarly accomplishments that lead to advances that improve health and wellbeing, prevent disease and disability, and/or advance the research mission of academic public health.

Eligibility

Nominees must be full-time faculty members at the level of either assistant or associate professor from an ASPPH-member, CEPH-accredited school or program of public health. View the list of ASPPH-member institutions. The nominee must have the following:

A primary appointment in an ASPPH-member school or program of public health
A demonstrated and notable record of success (minimum five years, maximum 10 years) in investigating public health issues.

Required Materials

All nominations must contain the following materials:

Nominee and nominator contact information
Overview statement of nominee’s contributions (limit 800 words)
Nominee’s curriculum vitae
Two additional letters of support.

Award Details

$1,000 Cash Prize

Complimentary registration for ASPPH Annual Meeting

Recognition at the Awards Ceremony

Review & Selection

Each nomination is assigned to an objective review and selection committee for that award. The committee is comprised of previous awardees, ASPPH Section leaders, and those nominated by their Dean to participate. Nominations are scored on the following criteria:

Overall Rating (5=high, 1=low)
The work (research/practice/teaching) conducted by this candidate has promising implications for improving public health (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
Strength of the letters of support (5=very strong, 1=very weak)
Strength of candidate’s experience (CV) (5=very strong, 1=very weak)

All scores and comments are compiled, the candidates ranked, and a summary report is sent to the committee for review. ASPPH and the committee will discuss each nomination and determine the awardee.

A Zoom meeting is scheduled with the ASPPH Program manager and committee to discuss each nomination and determine the awardee.