Some of public health’s most passionate advocates were recognized during the 2022 GPHA Annual Meeting and Conference in Jekyll Island during the presentation of section awards and the Sellers-McCroan Award.
Click any link below to learn more about the award recipient. Congratulations to all of these public health champions!
- Sellers-McCroan Award: Dr. Mark Elam
- GPHA Legislator of the Year: Butch Parrish
- Fred Agel Governance Award: Dr. Ramona Jackson Jones
- GPHA President’s Special Recognition Award: Cathalene Teahan
- Administration Outstanding Service Award: Erica Shaw
- Applied Epidemiologist of the Year Award: Hope Dishman
- Stancliff Boone Communicable Disease Specialist Award: Cyrus Shirley
- Maggie Kline Nursing Award: Damaris Landaverde
- Lillian D. Wald Public Health Nursing Award: Joycelyn Warren
- Ruth B. Freeman Nursing Award for Population Health Practice: Elisha Curry
- Barfield Nursing Award: Anna “Ginny” Powell
- Georgia Dental Award of Merit: Debra Smith
- Jules S. Terry Memorial Award: Karen Ebey-Tessendorf
- Al Dohany Community Service Award: Sedessie Spivey
- Larry W. Miller Health Information Specialist of the Year Award: Zynith Robinson
- Environmental Health Specialist of the Year Award: Chris Hutcheson
- Environmental Health Innovations Award: Richard Craft
- J. Patrick O’Neal Safety and Health Preparedness Award: Catina Lumpkin
- 2022 GPHA Honorary Member: David Harvey