Honors and accolades

The John Slade Award honors Society For Research On Nicotine & Tobacco members who have made outstanding contributions to public health and tobacco control through science-based public policy and public advocacy.

Congratulations to third-year Public Health student, Alex Ochoa, for winning the Undergraduate Abstract of Distinction at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Retreat. Alex presented on Assessing the Nutrition Environment in the South Linden Neighborhood and urged community intervention to improve high quality food options and development of new food markets in the neighborhood.

This year’s Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare use a variety of strategies to widen access to care and build communities of wellness.Inequality in healthcare is a problem requiring creative solutions. Modern Healthcare’s Top Diversity Leaders program recognizes those forging the way.

Four of The Ohio State University’s most committed and generous supporters, includingCatherine Baumgardner and Georgie Shockey,were recognized last week with this year'shighestuniversity honorsfor philanthropy and volunteerism.

The Whole Person Health Care Champion Award presented by Medical Mutual recognizes a provider of health & wellness services and/or a patient advocate who has helped patients overcome racial, economic, ability, and/or language barriers to care and/or provided radically inclusive LGBTQ+ and/or HIV/AIDS healthcare.

ThePower of Oneaward focuses on the little things someone does each day that has the power to affect a great many people. The individual inspires us with a willingness and ability to help others.

Second-year Master of Health Administration students Gil Durand, Jasmine Reid and Eric Sette won first place of 43 teams at the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE) Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition.

Xiaohan Guo, a student in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Biostatistics, received a third place prize for his poster presentation, "Variograms for Kriging and Clustering of Spatial Functional Data with Phase Variation," at the Translational Data Analytics Institute 2021 Fall Forum.