Director’s Award for Excellence in Epidemiology and Public Health Response

(Field Epidemiology Training Program International Night Award)

This award is presented in recognition of significant contributions toward successful responses to public health emergencies (natural and manmade disasters, disease outbreaks, etc.). Nominees can include Field Epidemiology Training Programs or Field Epidemiology (Laboratory) Training Programs who have provided successful leadership in important public health responses while overcoming challenging circumstances. The award is also to recognize excellence in epidemiologic practice or research and contributions that address a public health issue of major importance by applying epidemiologic principles and methods. Nominations can recognize accomplishments that improved human health; made a substantial reduction in burden of disease; or represented innovations to public health practice based on epidemiologic foundations or implementation of epidemiologic approaches. Recognized contributions should be practical, explicit, and applied rather than theoretical or implicit.

Recipients

2023 Ukraine Interventional Epidemiological Service (IES), Public Health Center, Ministry of Health, Ukraine
2022 Yemen Field Epidemiology Training Program
2021 No award given this year
2020 No award given this year
2019 No award given this year
2018 Brazil Field Epidemiology Training Program
2017 Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Field Epidemiology Track
2016 Pakistan Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training Program
2015 Nigeria Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training Program