Awards
John J. Hanlon Award for Most Outstanding Graduating GSPH Student
This special award honors GSPH founder John J. Hanlon, MD, MPH, former Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. Each spring the GSPH Student Affairs Committee meets to select the most outstanding graduating graduate student of the GSPH to be the recipient of the Hanlon Award. The faculty are asked to nominate the most outstanding student from each division. Selection criteria are based on student excellence in scholastic achievement based on GPA, research and other measures, and also on service to the GSPH, College, University and community. Each Division selects one nominee to compete for the GSPH-wide Hanlon Award. Each division nominee is recognized as that division's Outstanding Student at commencement ceremonies. The overall winner of the Hanlon Award is selected from the pool of nominees from the graduate programs by a simple majority vote of the members of the Student Affairs Committee.
The Hanlon Award winner is recognized as the most deserving of this special award honoring a man whose dedication to public health and many accomplishments exemplify all of the best qualities of a career in public health. Dr. Hanlon received his MD from Wayne State University and MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He was a giant in the field of public health, serving as health commissioner of both Detroit and Philadelphia. He taught at North Carolina and Michigan Schools of Public Health. He founded the forerunner of the Environmental Protection Agency and served as Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. He was the author of the classic public health administration text, which was republished in numerous editions. The text was published by Mosby Book Company, who provided an endowment to award a sum of money to the most outstanding student in the school. The student, selected by the faculty, who exemplifies the wonderful characteristics of the many for whom the award is named. Dr. Hanlon's rapport with people, scholarly accomplishments, dedication to service, and determination to create a graduate school of public health at SDSU credited with making our school what it is today.
| John J. Hanlon Award Recipients |
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| 2007 | Paula Johnson |
| 2006 | Meagan Gold |
| 2005 | Ami Hurd |
| 2004 | Barbara Baquero |
| 2003 | Erin L. Coullahan |
| 2002 | Maria Lourdes F. Reyes |
| 2001 | Jason "Jackson" A. Gross |
| 2000 | Julie L. Picrel |
| 1999 | Christine Gearen |
| 1998 | Linda Jayne Bjornaraa |
| 1992 | Suzanne P. Lindsay |
| 1990 | Rafael Laniado-Laborin |
| 1989 | Diane Ferro |
| 1988 | Vivien Spry |
| 1987 | James Blackman, Teresa Seitz |
| 1986 | Taha El Tahir Taha, Carol Sipan |
| 1985 | Jose Becerra, Kathryn Hollenbach |
| 1984 | Chris Walker |
| 1983 | Erin M. Kenney |
| 1982 | Charlotte Shindledecker-Jones |
Other Graduating GSPH Students Recognized by the Division Faculty to Receive Outstanding Student Awards
The American Medical International (AMI) Award is awarded to a most outstanding student that year in Health Services Administration. The Mariana Churchill Nurse Award recognizes an outstanding nurse receiving a graduate degree in public health.
| Year | Division | Name |
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| 2007 | Health Sciences Undergraduate | Laura Celli |
| 2007 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Anna Bukowinski |
| 2007 | Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences | Kimberly McDougal |
| 2007 | Health Services Administration | Alicia Shelley |
| 2006 | Community Health Education | Emily Schmied |
| 2006 | AMI Award | Benjamin Lee |
| 2006 | Health Services Administration/Mariana Churchill | Meric Nepomuceno |
| 2006 | Health Promotion | Yvette Canaba |
| 2006 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Keika Okamoto |
| 2005 | Community Health Education | Gena Knutson |
| 2005 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Ric Encarnacion |
| 2005 | Health Services Administration | Todd Wagner |
| 2005 | Health Promotion | Ami Hurd |
| 2005 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Juliana Grant |
| 2005 | AMI Award | Cynthia Ishihara, Vanessa Sincock |
| 2004 | Community Health Education | Brooke Keller |
| 2004 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Michael Rose |
| 2004 | AMI Award | Brian Baytop, Osara Okuonghae |
| 2004 | Health Services Administration | Dawn Jacobson |
| 2004 | Health Promotion | Barbara Baquero |
| 2004 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Janet McClure |
| 2003 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Brad P. Hirakawa |
| 2003 | Health Services Administration | Robert J. Salus |
| 2003 | Health Promotion | Christine A. Gehrman |
| 2003 | Community Health Education | Shawnamarie A. Livingston |
| 2002 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Amy S. King |
| 2002 | Health Promotion | Esmeralda M. Iniguez |
| 2002 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Rany M. Salem |
| 2001 | Community Health Education | Tracy Nwajuaku |
| 2001 | AMI Award | Mary Jane E. Dunlavey |
| 2001 | Health Services Administration | Tracie J. Moorehouse |
| 2001 | Health Promotion | Judith J. (Jodi) Prochaska |
| 2001 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Joanne H. E. Promislow |
| 2000 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Nicole V. Soucy |
| 2000 | Health Services Administration | Jennifer A. Keersmaker |
| 2000 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Carolyn H. Brennan |
| 2000 | Community Health Education | Marie C. Boman |
| 1999 | Community Health Education | Summer Anderson |
| 1999 | AMI Award | Murtaza Sanwari |
| 1999 | Health Services Administration | Haruhiko Suzuki |
| 1999 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Alvin Viray |
| 1999 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Carrie Rigdon |
| 1998 | Community Health Education | Cassandra Jones |
| 1998 | Health Services Administration/AMI Award | Shari Oren |
| 1998 | Health Promotion | Erika Takada |
| 1998 | Occupational and Environmental Health | Lee Willmon |
| 1998 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Joseph Kim |
Distinguished GSPH Alumni Award
Each year in spring the GSPH faculty are asked to identify their alumni who have distinguished themselves in one or more of the public health disciplines and are deserving of special recognition. The Student Affairs Committee meets to select one or more of these nominees to receive the Distinguished GSPH Alumni Award that year. Many of the awardees below have continued on for further education, excelled in their fields, demonstrated exemplary good citizenship, and been recognized by the greater public health community, nationally and internationally. Many have also been recognized not only for their personal accomplishments and the recognition their achievements bring to the GSPH, but also for enriching the GSPH after graduation in other ways by giving back more directly to the educational mission of the GSPH. Guest lecturing, career and field placement advising, research mentoring, student recruitment and other contributions that do not require ongoing residence in San Diego are among the many gifts distinguished alumni have been acknowledged for over the years.
| Distinguished GSPH Alumni Award Recipients |
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| 2007 | Kristin Garrett, MPH |
| 2007 | Edward Maibach, PhD, MPH |
| 2006 | Suzanne Lindsay, PhD, MSW, MPH |
| 2005 | Jeffery Silvers, MPH,CIH,CSP |
| 2005 | Janet Adamian, MPH |
| 2004 | Qiyi Xie, MD |
| 2003 | Victoria A. Heza, MS |
| 2002 | Art Myers DO, MPH |
| 2001 | Elizabeth G. Jones, EdD, MPH, RD |
| 2000 | Nadia Campbell, MPH |
| 2000 | Martha Jazo-Bajet, RN, MPH |
| 1999 | Irma Cota, MPH |
| 1999 | Chris Gonaver, MPH |
| 1999 | Janine Schooly, MPH |
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