Congratulations to the 2024 ASPPH Award Winners
2024 Award Recipient
Jennifer M. Griffith, DrPH, MPH
Texas A&M University’s School of Public Health
The ASPPH Riegelman Excellence Award recognizes an outstanding undergraduate public health educator. The award is given annually to a full-time faculty member who has made exemplary efforts to start or sustain an undergraduate program, collaborated with community partners and other disciplines, and garnered respect and enthusiasm from students.
Criteria for Award
Nominations should include a description of the nominee’s outstanding contributions in one or more of the following:
- A demonstration of innovative leadership for enhancing excellence, health equity, and inclusiveness in undergraduate academic public health education.
- Exemplary efforts to start or sustain an undergraduate program.
- Innovative teaching techniques using advanced technology.
- Relationships with practice partners in the community.
- Collaboration with other disciplines.
- Relationships with CEPH-accredited graduate schools or programs of public health; and
- Teacher evaluations by students
Eligibility
Nominees must be full-time faculty with a primary appointment at an Undergraduate Network for Academic Public Health member program. The nominee must have the following:
- A primary appointment in an ASPPH Undergraduate Network for Academic Public Health -member school or program of public health
- A demonstrated and notable record of success (more than 10 years in graduate and/or undergraduate public health education) in educating baccalaureate, post-baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral, and/or post-doctoral students.
Award Details
$1,000 Cash Prize
Complimentary registration for ASPPH Annual Meeting
Recognition at the Awards Ceremony
Past Winners
2022
Caryl E. Waggett, PhD
Allegheny College UG PH Program
2021
Gloria T. DiFulvio, PhD, MPH, MEd
University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences
2020
Karin J. Opacich, PhD, MHPE, OTR/L, FAOTA
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
2019
Elahe Nezami, PhD
University of Southern California Programs in Public Health
2018
Daniel S. Gerber, EdD, MPH
University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences
2017
Lauren D. Arnold, PhD, MPH
Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice
2016
Sara Mackenzie, MD, MPH
University of Washington School of Public Health
2014
Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH
Temple University College of Public Health
2013
Karen (Kay) Perrin, PhD, MPH
University of South Florida School of Public Health
2012
Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health