Samuel S. Epstein, MD, recipient on the 1998 RIght Livelihood Award

 

Samuel S. Epstein, MD, professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, was the first UIC faculty recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." The awards were presented to winners, chosen by an international jury from over 100 candidates, on December 9, at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. The citation recognizes Dr. Epstein’s "exemplary life of scholarship wedded to activism on behalf of humanity," praises his work on the links between environmental pollution and cancer, and notes the work of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, which he founded. Dr. Epstein’s work in cancer prevention advocacy was featured in the April edition of Chicago Magazine.

 

 

Naomi M. Morris, MD, MPH, recipient of the 1999 Martha May Eliot Award, presented by the American Public Health Association

 

Naomi M. Morris, MD, MPH, professor, Community Health Sciences Division, and director of the Maternal and Child Health Program, was named as recipient of the Martha May Eliot Award, to be presented at the November 1999 Annual American Public Health Association Meeting in Chicago._Conferred by APHA, the award honors unusual achievement in the field of maternal and child health and is intended to bring such achievement to the attention of related professionals and the public. Dr. Eliot, one of the early directors of the United States Children’s Bureau, was one of Dr. Morris’s professors at the Harvard University School of Public Health while she was studying for her MPH there forty years ago.

 

RIchard H. Sewell, MPH, presents the James R. Kimmey Award to Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH.
Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH, clinical professor, Community Health Sciences Division, was the recipient of the James R. Kimmey Award for Excellence in Health Planning and Practice from the American Public Health Association and the American Health Planning Association in recognition of his work in developing IPLAN, a statewide system of community health planning, as a part of Illinois’ Public Health Improvement Plan.

 

Dr. Jan Mulvaney, president, University of Illinois Alumni Clubof Greater Washington, DC, Dr. Paul Q. Peterson, and Dean Susan Scrimshaw at the club's Annual Spring Gala

Paul Q. Peterson, MD, MPH, founding dean of the School of Public Health, was presented with the Alumni of the Year Award by members of the University of Illinois Alumni Club of Greater Washington, DC at the club’s Spring Gala held in the capital on May 23. Seventy guests, including ten members of Dr. Peterson’s family, Loren Taylor, president and CEO of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Karen Glick, senior regional director of the University of Illinois Foundation, and Dean Susan Scrimshaw, were present to see Dr. Peterson honored for his leadership, vision, and contributions to the University of Illinois and to the field of public health at the state and national levels.

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