UW SPH’s Connie Celum receives the 2024 ASPPH Research Excellence Award
UW SPH faculty Dr. Connie Celum honored with ASPPH’s 2024 Research Excellence Award.
Awards
SPH Celebrates 2023 Excellence Award Winners
The SPH Excellence Awards recognize exemplary staff, faculty and students for their dedication, service, and many contributions to our School. View the list of winners.
16 public health students named to the 2023 Husky 100
Undergraduate and graduate public health students are among the 100 students honored university-wide for making the most of their time at the UW
Two SPH health informatics students win national-based merit awards
Health Informatics students Jennifer Kim and Brandon Madrigal-Corona win American Health Information Management Association scholarships.
Pamela Collins, advocate for mental health and community voice, named 2023 MLK Service Awardee
For more than 25 years, Collins has been a mental health advocate for communities around the globe through her research, science policy leadership, and global health practice.
SPH community members honored for positive impact on Washington’s public health
Congratulations to the faculty, alumni and student recipients!
UW SPH’s Kristie Ebi named 2023 AGU Fellow
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and environmental and occupational health sciences, has been elected as a 2023 American Geophysical Union Fellow.
Adjunct Associate Professor Sharon Laing to receive APHA’s 2023 Lyndon Haviland Public Health Mentoring Award
Sharon Laing, adjunct associate professor of health systems and population health, is a recipient of APHA’s 2023 Lyndon Haviland Public Health Mentoring Award.
Kingsley Ndoh (MPH, ’13) wins Washington Global Health Alliance’s 2023 Rising Star Award
Alumnus Kingsley Ndoh receives the 2023 Rising Star Award for his exceptional impact in the field of global health.
11 students within School of Public Health named to the 2022 Husky 100
This year’s annual Husky 100 awards have recognized 11 students within the School of Public Health for making the most of their time at the University of Washington.
Joyce E. Tapley creates culture of community health
For her distinguished service and achievement across public health, Tapley is the 2022 recipient of the Alumni Impact Award, the highest honor awarded to a graduate of the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Beyond the binary of substance abuse
Tessa Matson, a doctoral student at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has spent the past four years studying and researching screening and assessment tools for substance use disorders that are patient-centric, equitable, and recognize the complexity that comes with motivating people to change their behaviors.
Finding those who are forgotten in public health data
In recognition of his academic excellence and commitment to public health, Chacon Torrico was awarded the 2022 Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence, the most prestigious, School-wide recognition for graduate students.
Ahoua Koné Honored with 2022 MLK Award
Ahoua Koné, co-chair of the School of Public Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, has received the 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award.
UW’s Daniela Witten receives prestigious COPSS Presidents’ Award
Daniela Witten, professor of biostatistics and statistics at University of Washington and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics, has received the prestigious 2022 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).