Mitch Singal Excellence in Occupational and Environmental Health Award

The Mitch Singal Excellence in Occupational and Environmental Health Award, co-sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was established in 2010. The Mitch Singal Award recognizes a current EIS officer for excellence in an oral presentation that best exemplifies the effective application of public health epidemiology to an investigation in the area of occupational or environmental health.

Recipients

  • 2023— Asha Choudhury. Elevated Spot Urine Thallium Levels Within a Family Associated with Kale Chip Consumption — Central California, August 2022
  • 2022— Krishna Surasi. Elevated Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure Among Engineered Stone Fabrication Workers — California, January 2019–February 2020
  • 2021— No award given this year
  • 2020— No award given this year
  • 2019— Amy Lavery. Use of an Environmental Burden Index for Health Outcome Research — United States, 2018
  • 2018— Reed Grimes. Occupational exposure to carbon disulfide in an artificial casing manufacturing plant — United States, 2017
  • 2017— Jessica L. Rinsky. Occupational and Take-Home Lead Exposure Associated with a Lead Oxide Manufacturing Plant — North Carolina, 2016
  • 2016— Megan Case. Cleanliness is Next to Breathlessness: Asthma and Other Health Problems Related to a New Cleaning Product Among Hospital Staff — Pennsylvania, 2015
  • 2015— Geoffrey Whitfield. Parking Prices and Walking and Bicycling to Work in U.S. Cities
  • 2014— Candice Johnson. Workplace Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Nonsmoking Women of Reproductive Age — United States, 2010
  • 2013— Duke J. Ruktanonchai. Impact of Aerial Insecticide Spraying on West Nile Virus Disease — North Texas, 2012
  • 2012— Danielle E. Buttke. Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Toxicity as the Cause of Unknown Liver Disease — Tigray, Ethiopia (2007–2011)
  • 2011— Carrie A. Dooyema. Unprecedented Outbreak of Acute Childhood Lead Poisoning — Zamfara State, Nigeria, 2010
  • 2010— Paul Anderson. Surveillance and Prevention of Occupational Injury Deaths — Wyoming, 2003–2007