Winners of the 2012 Charles C. Shepard Science Awards

The Office of the Associate Director for Science is honored to announce the 2012 Charles C. Shepard Science Award Winners. The Charles C. Shepard Science Award is the preeminent honor recognizing excellence in science at CDC/ATSDR. For more information about the origin of the award and the life of Dr. Charles C. Shepard, please see the Award History page.

The nominated articles were judged on scientific merit and the significance of their effect on the missions of CDC/ATSDR. Following is a complete citation of the winning article, listed by category and by the authors’ full name.

Assessment

Concepción F. Estívariz, Hamid Jafari, Roland W. Sutter, T. Jacob John, Vibhor Jain, Ashutosh Agarwal, Harish Verma, Mark A Pallansch, Ajit P. Singh, Sherine Guirguis, Jitendra Awale, Anthony Burton, Sunil Bahl, Arani Chatterjee, and R. Bruce Aylward

Immunogenicity of Supplemental Doses of Poliovirus Vaccine for Children Aged 6-9 Months in Moradabad, India: A Community-Based, Randomized Controlled Trial

The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2012;12(2):128-135 (published online 2011)

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Prevention and Control

Timothy R. Sterling, M. Elsa Villarino, Andrey S. Borisov, Nong Shang, Fred Gordin, Erin Bliven-Sizemore, Judith Hackman, Carol Dukes Hamilton, Dick Menzies, Amy Kerrigan, Stephen E. Weis, Marc Weiner, Diane Wing, Marcus B. Conde, Lorna Bozeman, C. Robert Horsburgh, and Richard E. Chaisson for the TB Trials Consortium PREVENT TB Study Team

Three Months of Rifapentine and Isoniazid for Latent Tuberculosis Infection

New England Journal of Medicine 2011;365(23):2155–216

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Laboratory Science

Brian H. Bird, Louis H. Maartens, Shelley Campbell, Baltus J. Erasmus, Bobbie R. Erickson, Kimberly A. Dodd, Christina F. Spiropoulou, Deborah Cannon, Clifton P. Drew, Barbara Knust, Anita K. McElroy, Marina L. Khristova, César G. Albariño, and Stuart T. Nichol

Rift Valley Fever Virus Vaccine Lacking the NSs and NSm Genes Is Safe, Nonteratogenic, and Confers Protection from Virema, Pyrexia, and Abortion following Challenge in Adult and Pregnant Sheep

Journal of Virology2011;85(24):12901-12909

Data Methods and Study Design

Alula Hadgu, Nandini Dendukuri, and Liangliang Wang

Evaluation of Screening Tests for Detecting Chlamydia trachomatis Bias Associated with the Patient-Infected-Status Algorithm Epidemiology

2012;23(1):72-82 (published online 2011)

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2012 Shepard Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award Winner

Henry Falk, MD, MPH

National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

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