Awards

It's Time to Recognize Your Peers!

Every year, NCPHA has the pleasure of recognizing the efforts of those promoting public health and/or years of public health service in North Carolina. Please take the time to look around you and gather some information on one of your peers that has made a contribution to our profession or made a difference in someone's life. We, in public health, are sometimes too modest to acknowledge our efforts in enhancing the lives of those living around us. Let's give credit where credit is due! Nominate your peers, nominate your program. All of you are doing great stuff...brag about it!

• Major Award Nomination (MS Word)
• Service Award Application (MS Word)

Description of NCPHA Awards

Reynolds Award: The Reynolds Award is bestowed upon the individual member of NCPHA who has made the greatest contribution to public health in North Carolina during the past year.

Norton Group Award: The Norton Group Award is given to a group for outstanding cooperation and service to public health in North Carolina during the past year.

Rankin Award: The Watson S. Rankin Award is given to an individual in recognition of the outstanding contributions to public health in North Carolina over a period of several years.

Distinguished Service Award: This award was established in 1953 to recognize individuals in other organizations or professions who have made significant contributions to public health in North Carolina.

Citation of Merit: The Citation of Merit is conferred upon individual members of NCPHA who, by long years of noteworthy service or by lustrous enterprise within the recent past, have singularly advanced public health in the Tar Heel State.

Partners in Public Health Distinguished Group Award: This award was established in 1998 to recognize other organizations and professions who have made significant contributions to public health in North Carolina.

A citation and an engraved plaque are given for each of the awards listed above.

Service Awards

Service pins and certificates are awarded for completion of twenty-five (25), thirty (30), thirty-five (35), and forty (40) years of full time work in public health in North Carolina by DECEMBER 31 OF THE PRECEDING YEAR. Years taken from health service for educational or military leave are counted if the service is otherwise continuous. Does not require membership in NCPHA.

Nominations

Nominations shall be submitted on forms provided by NCPHA and may be obtained from the NCPHA Headquarters or the Chairperson of the NCPHA Awards Committee. They shall be addressed to the Chairperson of the Awards Committee and postmarked no later than July 1st of the calendar year for which the award is proposed. A person of group nominated in previous years and not selected, may be re-nominated by submitting current information on the appropriate forms. Supporting materials may be submitted. Remember that the Awards Committee will probably already know much about your nominee. Nominations need not be lengthy, but must be descriptive in outlining the reasons that the nominee is worthy of the award. We know that there are many deserving individual out there, but the Committee must choose the recipients based on the nominations received.

THE NOMINATION DEADLINE FOR ALL MAJOR AWARDS IS JULY 15.

Please fax to: (919) 233-7336 or mail to:

NC Public Health Association
7424 Chapel Hill Road
Suite 201
Raleigh, NC 27607