Charles C. Shepard Science Award Winners

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2024 Shepherd Award Theme

NEW 2024 Winners

Theme: Healing Mothers, Saving Lives: Ending the Maternal Health Crisis
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth A. Howell, MD, MPP
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024

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2024 Shepherd Awards Winners
2024 Shepherd Awards Winners
Dr. Calafat receiving her award
Dr. Calafat receiving her award
dr. howell headshot
Dr. Elizabeth A. Howell, MD, MPP is the Harrison McCrea Dickson, MD President's Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Sarah E. Smith-Jeffcoat, Jessica E. Biddle, H. Keipp Talbot, Kerry Grace Morrissey, Melissa S. Stockwell, Yvonne Maldonado, Huong Q. McLean, Katherine D. Ellingson, Natalie M. Bowman, Edwin Asturias, Alexandra M. Mellis, Sheroi Johnson, Hannah L. Kirking, Melissa A. R. Rolfes, Vanessa Olivo, Lori Merrill, Steph Battan-Wraith, Ellen Sano, Son H. McLaren, Celibell Y. Vargas, Sara Goodman, Clea C. Sarnquist, Prasanthi Govindaranjan, Joshua G. Petrie, Edward A. Belongia, Karla Ledezma, Kathleen Pryor, Karen Lutrick, Ayla Bullock, Amy Yang, Quenla Haehnel, Suchitra Rao, Yuwei Zhu, Jonathan Schmitz, Kimberly Hart, Carlos G. Grijalva, Phillip P. Salvatore

Symptoms, Viral Loads, and Rebound Among COVID-19 Outpatients Treated With Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Compared With Propensity Score-Matched Untreated Individuals

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024 May 15;78(5):1175-1184.

Elizabeth A. Swedo, Alen Alic, Royal K. Law, Steven A. Sumner, May S. Chen, Marissa L. Zwald, Miriam E. Van Dyke, Daniel A. Bowen, James A. Mercy

Development of a Machine Learning Model to Estimate US Firearm Homicides in Near Real Time

JAMA Network Open. 2023 Mar 1;6(3): e233413.

Matthew J. O'Brien, Yan Zhang, Stacy C. Bailey, Sadiya S. Khan, Ronald T. Ackermann, Mohammed K. Ali, Stephen R. Benoit, Giuseppina Imperatore, Christopher S. Holliday, Kai McKeever Bullard

Screening for Prediabetes and Diabetes: Clinical Performance and Implications for Health Equity

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2023 Jun;64(6):814-823.

Stephen R. Welch, Jessica R. Spengler, Sarah C. Genzer, JoAnn D. Coleman-McCray, Jessica R. Harmon, Teresa E. Sorvillo, Florine E. M. Scholte, Sergio E. Rodriguez, T. Justin O'Neal, Jana M. Ritter, Georgia Ficarra, Katherine A. Davies, Markus H. Kainulainen, Elif Karaaslan, Éric Bergeron, Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Michael K. Lo, Stuart T. Nichol, Joel M. Montgomery, Christina F. Spiropoulou

Single-dose mucosal replicon-particle vaccine protects against lethal Nipah virus infection up to 3 days after vaccination

Science Advances. 2023 Aug 4;9(31):eadh4057.

Nicholas P. Deputy, Joseph Deckert, Anna N. Chard, Neil Sandberg, Danielle L. Moulia, Eric Barkley, Alexandra F. Dalton, Cory Sweet, Amanda C. Cohn, David R. Little, Adam L. Cohen, Danessa Sandmann, Daniel C. Payne, Jacqueline L. Gerhart, Leora R. Feldstein

Vaccine Effectiveness of JYNNEOS against Mpox Disease in the United States

The New England Journal of Medicine. 2023 Jun 29;388(26):2434-2443.

Antonia M. Calafat, Ph.D.

Nominating CIO: National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Full Committee

Chair: Maria Mirabelli, PhD

Co-Chair: Elise Beltrami, MD, MPH

Umed Ajani, MBBS, MPH

Joanne Andreadis, PhD

Laura Colman, PhD, MPH

Melissa Danielson, MSPH

Gery Guy, PhD, MPH

Marie Haring Sweeney, PhD, MPH

Matthew Hogben, PhD

Chinaro Kennedy, DrPh, MPH

Preeta Kutty, MD, MPH

Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD

Krista Proia, MPH

Lauren Rossen, PhD

Sharon Saydah, PhD, MHS

Laura Schieve, PhD

Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH

Assessment Subcommittee

Chair: Umed Ajani, MBBS, MPH

Co-Chair: Ryan Wiegand, MS

Aziza Arifkhanova, PhD

Vita Cama, DVM, PhD

Kris Carter, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM

Sherry Farr, PHD, MSPH

Cheryl Fryar, MSPH

Kim Gehle, MD, MPH

Susan Hills, MD, MPH

Elizabeth Masterson, PhD, MPH

Karen Mumford, MEd, PhD

Sharon Saydah, PhD

Nick Suarez, MPH

Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH

Alana Vivolo-Kantor, PhD, MPH

Statistician: Ryan Wiegand, MS

Data Methods and Study Design Subcommittee

Chair: Laura Colman, PhD, MPH

Shailen Banerjee, PhD

Cammie Chaumont Menendez, PhD, MPH, MS

Cynthia Davis, PhD, MEd

Zewditu Demissie, PhD, MPH, CPH, FACE

Chris Edens, PhD

Dana Haberling, MSPH

Ruth Jiles, MPH, MS, PhD

Scott Lee, PhD

Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD

Elizabeth Parker, PhD, MHS

Laura Schieve, PhD

Rubin Smith, PhD, MS

Guangyu Zhang, PhD

Statistician: Josip Derado, PhD

Health Equity Science Subcommittee

Chair: Donna McCree, PhD, MPH, RPh

Co-Chair: Rosalyn Lee, PhD, MPH, MA

Michelle Chang, MD

Nicholas Deputy, PhD, MPH

Cynthia Ferre, MA

Cassandra Frazier, MPH

Kim Gadsden-Knowles, MPH, MS

Rebecca Hall, MPH, BS

Tara Jatlaoui, MD, MPH

Chinaro Kennedy, DrPH, MPH

Melanie Lawson, MPH

Kimberly Lochner, ScD

Nita Patel, DrPH, MPH

Rashaun Roberts, PhD, MA

Samantha Weber, JD

Statistician: Allan Uribe, DrPH, MPH

Laboratory Subcommittee

Chair: Shoukat Qari, DVM, PhD

Co-Chair: Stephanie Johnston, MS

Yutaka Aoki, PhD, MHS, MS

Brady Cunningham, PhD

Christine De Staercke, PhD

Marcia Harris, MS

Kim Hummel, PhD, MS

Hether Kuiper, PhD

Jessica Spengler, DVM, PhD, MPH

Sherri Stewart, PhD

Eldin Talundzic, PhD

William Weldon, PhD

Laurina Williams, MPH, PhD

Statistician: Xin Yue, MS, MPS

Prevention and Control Subcommittee

Chair: Matthew Hogben, PhD

Co-Chair: Lauren Rossen, PhD

Tracy Ayers, PhD

Kimberly Dube, PhD, MPA

Susan Hariri, PhD

Kathleen MacMahon, DVM, MS

Christian Murray, MSc

Soyoun Park, PhD, MS

Gail Stennies, MD

April Summers, MPH

Amra Uzicanin, MD, MPH

Ambarish Vaidyanathan, PhD

Anne G. Wheaton, PhD

Statistician: Yang Liu, PhD

Program Executive

Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Ex Officio Member: Elissa Meites, MD, MPH

Executive Secretary

Tony Richardson, MPH, MSCJ, MS

Administrative Assistant

Dawn Mitchell

Patrick Aderibigbe

Sheryl White

SharePoint Site Managers

Dawn Mitchell

Patrick Aderibigbe

Sheryl White

Tandra Bailey-Johnson, MEd

Tony Richardson, MPH, MSCJ, MS

Incentive Awards and Human Resources

Chanta’ Johnson

Jassmine Lee

Communications Lead

Tandra Bailey-Johnson, MEd

Editing

Luis M. Luque, MFA, MPA

Graphic Design

Anna Sherlock

2023

Theme: The Science and Impact of Unleashing Hidden Potential
Keynote Speaker: Adam Grant, PhD
Date: November 7, 2023

Program flyer | Nominees

2023 Shepherd Awards
The theme for the 2023 Shepherd Awards was "Unleashing Hidden Potential" with Dr. Mandy Cohen and Dr. Adam Grant
Headshot photo of Dr. Adam Grant.
Dr. Adam Grant, PhD is the Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccination in the US From December 2020 to August 20211

Matthew E. Oster, David K. Shay, John R. Su, Julianne Gee, C. Buddy Creech, Karen R. Broder, Kathryn Edwards, Jonathan H. Soslow, Jeffrey M. Dendy, Elizabeth Schlaudecker, Sean M. Lang, Elizabeth D. Barnett, Frederick L. Ruberg, Michael J. Smith, M. Jay Campbell, Renato D. Lopes, Laurence S. Sperling, Jane A. Baumblatt, Deborah L. Thompson, Paige L. Marquez, Penelope Strid, Jared Woo, River Pugsley, Sarah Reagan-Steiner, Frank DeStefano, and Tom T. Shimabukuro

Association between 3 doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and symptomatic infection caused by the SARS-cov-2 Omicron and Delta variants2

Emma K. Accorsi, Amadea Britton, Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra, Zachary R. Smith, Nong Shang, Gordana Derado, Joseph Miller, Stephanie J. Schrag, and Jennifer R. Verani

Multiple lineages of monkeypox virus detected in the United States, 2021-20223

Crystal M. Gigante, Bette Korber, Matthew H. Seabolt, Kimberly Wilkins, Whitni Davidson, Agam K.Rao, Hui Zhao, Todd G. Smith, Christine M. Hughes, Faisal Minhaj, Michelle A. Waltenburg, James Theiler, Sandra Smole, Glen R. Gallagher, David Blythe, Robert Myers, Joann Schulte, Joey Stringer, Philip Lee, Rafael M. Mendoza, LaToya A. Griffin-Thomas, Jenny Crain, Jade Murray, Annette Atkinson, Anthony H. Gonzalez, June Nash, Dhwani Batra, Inger Damon, Jennifer McQuiston, Christina L. Hutson, Andrea M. McCollum, and Yu Li

Andrew (Andy) Cecala
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Full Committee

Program Director: Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Chair: Maria Mirabelli, PhD, MPH

Co-Chair: Elise Beltrami, MD, MPH

  • Chinaro Kennedy, DrPH, MPH
  • Gery Guy, PhD, MPH
  • Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH
  • Joanne Andreadis, PhD
  • Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD
  • Krista Proia, MPH
  • Laura Colman, PhD, MPH
  • Laura Schieve, PhD
  • Lauren Rossen, PhD, MS
  • Marie Haring Sweeney, PhD, MPH
  • Matthew Hogben, PhD
  • Melissa Danielson, MSPH
  • Preeta Kutty, MD, MPH
  • Sharon Saydah, PhD, MHS
  • Umed Ajani, MBBS, MPH

Assessment Subcommittee

Chair: Umed Ajani, MBBS, MPH

Co-Chair/Statistician: Ryan Wiegand, PhD, MS

  • Alana Vivolo-Kantor, PhD, MPH
  • Aziza Arifkhanova
  • Cheryl Fryar, MSPH
  • Elizabeth Masterson, PhD, CPH, COHC
  • Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH
  • Karen Mumford, MEd, PhD
  • Kim Gehle, MD, MPH
  • Kris Carter, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM
  • Nick Suarez, MPH
  • Sharon Saydah, PhD, MHS
  • Sherry Farr, PhD, MSPH
  • Susan Hills MBBS, MTH
  • Vita Cama, DVM, PhD

Data Methods and Study Design Subcommittee

Chair: Laura Colman, PhD, MPH

  • Cammie Chaumont Menendez, PhD, MPH, MS
  • Cynthia Davis, PhD, MEd
  • Dana Haberling, MSPH
  • Elizabeth Parker, PhD, MHS
  • Guangyu Zhang, PhD
  • Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD
  • Laura Schieve, PhD
  • Rubin Smith, PhD, MS
  • Ruth Jiles, MPH, MS, PhD
  • Scott Lee, PhD
  • Shailen Banerjee, PhD
  • William (Chris) Edens, PhD
  • Zewditu Demissie , PhD, MPH, CPH, FACE
  • Statistician: Josip Derado, PhD

Health Equity Science Subcommittee

Chair: Donna McCree, PhD, MPH, RPh

Co-Chair: Rosalyn Lee , PhD, MPH, MA

  • Cassandra Frazier, MPH
  • Chinaro Kennedy, DrPH, MPH
  • Cynthia Ferre, MA
  • Kimberly Lochner, ScD
  • Kim Gadsden-Knowles, MPH, MS
  • Melanie Lawson, MPH
  • Michelle Chang, MD
  • Nicholas Deputy, PhD, MPH
  • Nita Patel, DrPH, MPH
  • Rebecca Hall, MPH, BS
  • Rashaun Roberts, PhD, MA
  • Samantha Weber, JD
  • Tara Jatlaoui, MD, MPH
  • Statistician: Allan Uribe, DrPH, MPH

Laboratory Subcommittee

Chair: Shoukat Qari, DVM, PhD

Co-Chair: Stephanie Johnston, MS

  • Brady Cunningham, PhD
  • Christine De Staercke, PhD
  • Eldin Talundzic, PhD
  • Heather Kuiper, PhD
  • Jessica Spengler, DVM PhD MPH
  • Kim Hummel, PhD, MS
  • Laurina Williams, MPH, PhD
  • Marcia Harris, BS, MS
  • Sherri Stewart, PhD
  • William Weldon, PhD
  • Yutaka Aoki, PhD, MHS, MS
  • Statistician: Xin Yue, MS, MPS

Prevention and Control Subcommittee

Chair: Matthew Hogben, PhD

Co-Chair: Lauren Rossen, PhD, MS

  • Ambarish Vaidyanathan, PhD
  • Amra Uzicanin, MD, MPH
  • April Summers, MPH
  • Christian Murray, MSc
  • Gail Stennies, MD
  • Kathleen MacMahon, DVM
  • Kimberly Dube, PhD, MPA
  • Meda Pavkov, MD, PhD
  • Soyoun Park, PhD, MS
  • Susan Hariri, PhD, MPH
  • Tracy Ayers, PhD
  • Statistician: Yang Liu, PhD

Program Executive: Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Ex Officio Member: Elissa Meites, MD, MPH

Executive Secretary: Tony Richardson, MPH, MS

Administrative Assistant: Dawn Mitchell, Patrick Aderibigbe, Sheryl White

SharePoint Site Manager: Dawn Mitchell, Patrick Aderibigbe, Sheryl White, Tandra Bailey-Johnson MEd, Tony Richardson, MPH, MSCJ, MS

Incentive Awards and Human Resources: Chanta' Johnson, Jassmine Lee

Communications: Tandra Bailey-Johnson, MEd

Editing: Luis M. Luque, MFA, MPA

Graphic Design: Anna Sherlock

2022

Theme: Communicating Science for Action in 2022 and Beyond
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Date: October 27, 2022

Program flyer | Nominees

Program flyer for the 2022 Awards.
The theme for this year was "Communicating Science for Action in 2022 and Beyond"
Headshot photo of Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Dr. Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms
JAMA Network Open. 2021; 4(1): p. e2035057

Michael A. Johansson, PhD; Talia M. Quandelacy, PhD, MPH; Sarah Kada, PhD; Pragati Venkata Prasad, MPH; Molly Steele, PhD, MPH; John T. Brooks, MD; Rachel B. Slayton, PhD, MPH; Matthew Biggerstaff, ScD, MPH; Jay C. Butler, MD

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Physiologically Based Serum Ferritin Thresholds for Iron Deficiency in Children and Non-Pregnant Women: A US National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) Serial Cross-Sectional Study
Lancet Hematology. 2021; 8(8): p. e572-e582

Zuguo Mei, O Yaw Addo, Maria Elena Jefferds, Andrea J Sharma, Rafael C Flores-Ayala, Gary M Brittenham

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

SARS-CoV-2 Spike D614G Change Enhances Replication and Transmission
Nature. 2021; 592(7852): p. 122-127

Bin Zhou, Tran Thi Nhu Thao, Donata Hoffmann, Adriano Taddeo, Nadine Ebert, Fabien Labroussaa, Anne Pohlmann, Jacqueline King, Silvio Steiner, Jenna N Kelly, Jasmine Portmann, Nico Joel Halwe, Lorenz Ulrich, Bettina Salome Trueb, Xiaoyu Fan, Bernd Hoffmann, Li Wang, Lisa Thomann, Xudong Lin, Hanspeter Stalder, Berta Pozzi, Simone de Brot , Nannan Jiang, Dan Cui, Jaber Hossain, Malania M Wilson, Matthew W Keller, Thomas J Stark, John R Barnes, Ronald Dijkman, Joerg Jores, Charaf Benarafa, David E Wentworth, Volker Thiel, and Martin Beer

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children – Initial Therapy and Outcomes
New England Journal Medicine. 2021; 385(1): p. 23-34

Mary Beth F Son, Nancy Murray, Kevin Friedman, Cameron C Young, Margaret M Newhams, Leora R Feldstein, Laura L Loftis, Keiko M Tarquinio, Aalok R Singh, Sabrina M Heidemann, Vijaya L Soma, Becky J Riggs, Julie C Fitzgerald, Michele Kong, Sule Doymaz, John S Giuliano, Jr., Michael A Keenaghan, Janet R Hume, Charlotte V Hobbs, Jennifer E Schuster, Katharine N Clouser, Mark W Hall, Lincoln S Smith, Steven M Horwitz, Stephanie P Schwartz, Katherine Irby, Tamara T Bradford, Aline B Maddux, Christopher J Babbitt, Courtney M Rowan, Gwenn E McLaughlin, Phoebe H Yager, Mia Maamari, Elizabeth H Mack, Christopher L Carroll, Vicki L Montgomery, Natasha B Halasa, Natalie Z Cvijanovich, Bria M Coates, Charles E Rose, Jane W Newburger, Manish M Patel, Adrienne G R Randolph, and Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage: The Contribution of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022; 62(4): p. 473-482

Austin M Williams, Heather B Clayton, and James A Singleton

Inger Damon, MD, PhD
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Full committee

Program Director: Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Chair: Allan Taylor, MD, MPH

Co-Chair: Maria Mirabelli, PhD

  • Umed Ajani, MBBS, MPH
  • Elise Beltrami, MD, MPH
  • Ginger Chew, ScD, MSPH
  • Laura Colman, PhD, MPH
  • Gery Guy, PhD, MPH
  • Kim Lochner, PhD
  • Kevin Matthews, PhD, MS
  • Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD
  • Lauren Rossen, PhD
  • Sharon Saydah, PhD
  • Marie Sweeney, PhD, MPH
  • Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH
  • Linda Valleroy, PhD, MA
  • Lorraine Yeung, MD, MPH
  • Statistician: Melissa Danielson, MSPH

Assessment Subcommittee

Chair: Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH

  • Umed Ajani, MD, MPH
  • Lara Akinbami, MD
  • Sonal Doshi, MPH, MS
  • Cheryl Fryar, MSPH
  • Kim Gehle, MD, MPH
  • Rachel Gorwitz, MD, MPH
  • Susan Hills, MD, MPH
  • Mary Kamb, MD, MPH
  • Barb Marston, MD
  • Elizabeth Masterson, PhD, MPH
  • Sharon Saydah, PhD
  • Laura Schieve, PhD
  • Tracy Thomas, MPH, MS
  • Linda Valleroy, PhD, MA
  • Alana Vivolo-Kantor, PhD, MPH
  • Cori Wigington, MPH
  • Statistician: Ryan Wiegand, MS

Data Methods and Study Design Subcommittee

Chair: Lorraine Yeung, MD, MPH

  • Shailen Banerjee, PhD
  • Michele Bohm, MPH
  • Cammie Chaumont, PhD, MPH, MS
  • Brenda Chen, MS
  • Laura Colman, PhD, MPH
  • Li Deng, PhD
  • Chris Edens, PhD
  • Katie Fowler, PhD
  • Dana Haberling, MSPH
  • Ruth Jiles, PhD
  • Sunny Kim, PhD
  • Scott Lee, PhD
  • Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD
  • Ruben Smith, PhD
  • Patrick Yorio, PhD
  • Guangyu Zhang, PhD
  • Statistician: Yang Liu, PhD, MS

Health Equity Science Subcommittee

Chair: Donna McCree, PhD, MPH

  • Renee Calanan PhD, MS
  • Michelle Chang, MD
  • Shanna Cox, MSPH
  • Xidong Deng, PhD
  • Cynthia Ferre, MA
  • Cassandra Frazier, MPH
  • Kim Gadsden-Knowles, MPH, MS
  • Shannon Griffin-Blake, PhD
  • Rebecca Hall, MPH
  • Kevin Heslin, PhD
  • Tara Jatlaui, MD, MPH
  • Chinaro Kennedy, DrPH, MPH
  • Amy Lansky, PhD, MPH
  • Lamia Tamara, MPH
  • Rosalyn Lee, PhD, MPH, MA
  • Rashaun Roberts, PhD
  • Statistician: Allan Uribe, DrPH, MPH

Laboratory Subcommittee

Chair: Conrad Quinn, PhD

  • Yutaka Aoki, PhD, MHS, MS
  • Christine De Staercke, PhD
  • June Feng, PhD
  • Marcia Harris
  • Heather Kuiper, PhD
  • Stephanie Johnston, MS
  • Shoukat Qari, DVM, PhD
  • Jessica Spengler, DVM, PhD, MPH
  • Sherri Stewart, PhD
  • William Weldon, PhD
  • Laurina Williams, PhD, MPH, MS
  • Tun Ye, MD, PhD, MSPH
  • Statistician: Cathleen Gillespie, MS

Prevention and Control Subcommittee

Chair: Matthew Hogben, PhD

  • Tracy Ayers, PhD
  • Ginger Chew, ScD, MSPH
  • Susan Hariri, PhD
  • NaTasha Hollis, PhD
  • Erin D. Kennedy, DVM, MS, MPH
  • Kathleen MacMahon, DVM, MS
  • Karen Mumford, PhD, M.Ed
  • Christian Murray
  • Livia Navon, MS
  • Meda Pavkov, MD
  • Lauren Rossen, PhD
  • Gail Stennies, MD, MPH
  • Amra Uzicanin, MD, MPH
  • Statistician: Rey de Castro, ScD

Program Executive: Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Executive Secretaries: Tony Richardson, MPH, MS

Administrative Assistant: Dawn Mitchell

SharePoint Site Manager: Tony Richardson, MPH, MS, Dawn Mitchell, Tandra Bailey-Johnson, M.Ed

Incentive Awards and Human Resources: Claudia Turner, MA

Communications: Tandra Bailey-Johnson, M.Ed

Editing: Luis M. Luque, MFA, MPA

Graphic Design: Anna Sherlock

2021

Theme: Climate Change as a Public Health Threat: Why Equity Matters
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Bullard
Date: October 20, 2021

Program flyer | Nominees

Climate Change as a Public Health Threat: Why Equity Matters
The theme for this year was "Climate Change as a Public Health Threat: Why Equity Matters"
Headshot photo of Dr. Richard Bullard.
Dr. Bullard is the Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University.

National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion

Historic and recent trends in county-level coronary heart disease death rates by race, gender, and age group, United States, 1979-2017
PLoS One 2020;15(7):e0235839

Adam S. Vaughan, Linda Schieb, and Michele Casper

Center for Global Health

Risk scores for predicting early antiretroviral therapy mortality in sub-Saharan Africa to inform who needs intensification of care: a derivation and external validation cohort study
BMC Medicine 2020;18(1):311

Andrew F. Auld, Katherine Fielding, Tefera Agizew, Alice Maida, Anikie Mathoma, Rosanna Boyd, Anand Date, Sherri L. Pals, George Bicego, Yuliang Liu, Ray W. Shiraishi, Peter Ehrenkranz, Christopher Serumola, Unami Mathebula, Heather Alexander, Salome Charalambous, Courtney Emerson, Goabaone Rankgoane-Pono, Pontsho Pono, Alyssa Finlay, James C. Shepherd, Charles Holmes, Tedd V. Ellerbrock, and Alison D. Grant

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Development of a new oral poliovirus vaccine for the eradication end game using codon deoptimization
Nature Partner Journals Vaccines 2020;5(1):26

Jennifer L. Konopka-Anstadt, Ray Campagnoli, Annelet Vincent, Jing Shaw, Ling Wei, Nhien T. Wynn, Shane E. Smithee, Erika Bujaki, Ming Te Yeh, Majid Laassri, Tatiana Zagorodnyaya, Amy J. Weiner, Konstantin Chumakov, Raul Andino, Andrew Macadam, Olen Kew, and Cara C. Burns

Center for Global Health

Effect of tuberculosis screening and retention interventions on early antiretroviral therapy mortality in Botswana: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial
BMC Medicine 2020;18(1):19

Andrew F. Auld, Tefera Agizew, Anikie Mathoma, Rosanna Boyd, Anand Date, Sherri L. Pals, Christopher Serumola, Unami Mathebula, Heather Alexander, Tedd V. Ellerbrock, Goabaone Rankgoane-Pono, Pontsho Pono, James C. Shepherd, Katherine Fielding, Alison D. Grant, and Alyssa Finlay

National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion

Association of smoke-free laws with preterm or low birth weight deliveries—A multistate analysis
Health Services Research 2021;56(1):61-72

Xu Ji, Shanna Cox, Scott D. Grosse, Wanda D. Barfield, Brian S. Armour, Elizabeth A. Courtney-Long, and Rui Li

Stuart Nichol, PhD
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Full committee

Program Director: Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Chair: Gerald Joy, MS, MS Hyg

Co-Chair: Basia Tomczyk, DrPH, MS

  • Elise Beltrami, MD, MPH
  • Naomi Chen-Bowers, PhD, MPH
  • Ginger Chew, ScD, MSPH
  • Laura Colman, PhD, MPH
  • Gery Guy, PhD, MPH
  • Kim Lochner, PhD
  • Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD
  • Carrie Reed, DSc, MPH
  • Marie Sweeney, PhD, MPH
  • Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH
  • Anjel Vahratian, PhD, MPH
  • Linda Valleroy, PhD, MA
  • Lorraine Yeung, MD, MPH
  • Statistician: Melissa Danielson, MSPH

Assessment Subcommittee

Chair: Gina Thornton-Evans, DDS, MPH

  • Umed Ajani, MD, MPH
  • Lara Akinbami, MD
  • Sonal Doshi, MPH, MS
  • Kim Gehle, MD, MPH
  • Rachel Gorwitz, MD, MPH
  • Susan Hills, MD, MPH
  • Barb Marston, MD
  • Elizabeth Masterson, PhD, MPH
  • Laura Schieve, PhD
  • Tracy Thomas, MPH, MS
  • Linda Valleroy, PhD, MA
  • Alana Vivolo, PhD, MPH
  • Statistician: Ryan Wiegand, MS

Data Methods and Study Design Subcommittee

Chair: Guangyu Zhang, PhD

  • Shailen Banerjee, PhD
  • Brenda Chen, MS
  • Laura Colman, PhD, MPH
  • Li Deng, PhD
  • Katie Fowler, PhD
  • Ruth Jiles, PhD
  • Sunny Kim, PhD
  • Scott Lee, PhD
  • Katina Pappas-DeLuca, PhD
  • Ruben Smith, PhD
  • Lorraine Yeung, MD, MPH
  • Patrick Yorio, PhD
  • Guangyu Zhang, PhD
  • Statistician: Yang Liu, PhD, MS

Health Equity Science Subcommittee

Chair: Donna McCree, PhD, MPH

  • Renee Calanan, PhD, MS
  • Shanna Cox, MSPH
  • Kim Gadsden-Knowles, MPH, MS
  • Shannon Griffin-Blake, PhD
  • Rebecca Hall, MPH
  • Tara Jatlaui, MD, MPH
  • Chinaro Kennedy, DrPH, MPH
  • Lamia Tamara, MPH
  • Rosalyn Lee, PhD, MPH, MA
  • Rashaun Roberts, PhD
  • Statistician: Allan Uribe, DrPH, MPH

Laboratory Subcommittee

Chair: Tun Ye, MD, PhD, MSPH

  • Yutaka Aoki, PhD, MHS, MS
  • Christine De Staercke, PhD
  • June Feng, PhD
  • Jodi Jackson, PhD
  • Stephanie Johnston, MS
  • John J. Kools, MS
  • Paul Middendorf, PhD, MS
  • Shoukat Qari, DVM, PhD
  • Conrad Quinn, PhD
  • Anne Sowell, PhD
  • Jessica Spengler, DVM, PhD, MPH
  • Martin Vincent, PhD, MBA
  • William Weldon, PhD
  • Ray Wells, PhD
  • Statistician: Cathleen Gillespie, MS

Prevention and Control Subcommittee

Chair: Rodolfo Valdez, PhD, MSc

  • Ginger Chew, ScD, MSPH
  • Matthew Hogben, PhD
  • Renee Johnson, MSPH
  • Erin D. Kennedy, DVM, MS, MPH
  • Kathleen MacMahon, DVM, MS
  • Meda Pavkov, MD
  • Janell Routh, MD, MHS
  • Gail Stennies, MD, MPH
  • Amra Uzicanin, MD, MPH
  • Anjel Vahratian, PhD, MPH
  • Statistician: Rey de Castro, ScD

Program Executive: Joanne Cono, MD, ScM

Executive Secretaries: Tony Richardson, MPH, MS

Administrative Assistant: Dawn Mitchell

SharePoint Site Manager: Sofia Espinoza

Incentive Awards and Human Resources: Claudia Turner, MA

Communications: Meeting Management Technology (MMT) Team, Tandra Bailey-Johnson, MEd, Rosa Herrera, Paula Eriksen, Susan Laird, DNP, MSN, RN, JoDeanah Noble

Editing: Luis M. Luque, MFA, MPA

Graphic Design: Anna Sherlock

Content Source:
; Office of Science (OS)
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