Past Child Health Advocate Award Recipients
2021
Science Honoree:
José F. Cordero, MD, MPH- University of Georgia’s College of Public Health
Community Honoree:
Catherine Coleman Flowers, MA- Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Policy Honoree:
Kristin Schafer, MA- Pesticide Action Network
Media Honoree:
Sharon Lerner, MPH- IThe Intercept
Child Health Advocate Honoree:
Martha Berger, MPA- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honoree:
Ananya Sridhar- Neptune Project
2020
Science Honorees:
Dr. Beverly L. Wright, PhD, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
Dr. Mona Sarfaty, MD, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health
Community Honoree:
Ms. LaTricea Adams, MAT, EdS, Black Millennials for Flint
Policy Honoree:
Ms. Janice Nolen, MA, American Lung Association
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honorees:
Ms. Sophia Kianni, Climate Cardinals
Ms. Karina Samuel, U.S. Youth Climate Strike, Bye Bye Plastic Bags Florida
2019
Science Honoree:
Dr. Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Community Honoree:
Ms. Parisa Norouzi, Empower DC
Child Health Advocate Honoree:
Dr. Ruth A. Etzel, M.D., Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Business Honoree:
Mr. Anas "Andy" Shallal, Founder and CEO of Busboys and Poets
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honoree:
Ms. Mabette Colón Pérez, Comunidad Guayamesa Unidos Por Tu Salud
2018
Science Honoree:
Dr. Luz Claudio, Environmental Medicine & Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Community Honoree:
Dr. Susan Hedges, National Association for the Education of Young Children
Child Health Advocate Honoree:
Mustafa Santiago Ali,JD (honoris causa), Climate, Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization at Hip Hop Caucus
Media Honorees:
Barbara Laker, Wendy Ruderman and Dylan Purcell, Reporters on the "Toxic City" series at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honoree:
Ms. Amariyanna Copeny aka Little Miss Flint, Student and activist
2017
Science Honoree:
Dr. Michael L. Weitzman, Department of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and School of Global Public Health at New York University
Community Honoree:
Dr. Robert Bullard, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University
Community Honoree:
Ms. Annabelle M. Allison, Tribal Support Unit in the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Carol Stroebel Health Policy Honoree:
Dr. Jerome Paulson, Principal of EnviroHealthDoctor, LLC
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honoree:
Ms. Sophie Bernstein, Grow Healthy
2016
Science Honoree:
Dr. David Bellinger, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Community Honoree:
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Pediatric Residency Program and Public Health Initiative
Hurley Children's Hospital and Michigan State University
Child Health Advocate Honoree:
Dr. Gail Christopher, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Carol Stroebel Health Policy Honoree:
Dr. John M. Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and U.S. Global Change Research Program
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honoree:
Ms. Nidhi Bhaskar, Project New Boundaries for Youth (ProjectNBYOUTH) and Project Global Perspective Club at the Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School
2015
Science Honoree:
Dr. Walter Rogan, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Epidemiology Branch (retired)
Policy Honoree:
Carol Stroebel, Long-time advocate for policies protecting public interest/public health, most recently CEHN Director of Training & Policy
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Honoree:
Annie Willis, Leader with Global Kids, Inc.
2014
Science Honoree:
Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Director of the University of California at San Francisco's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment; Professor in UCSF School of Medicine and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Policy Honoree:
Dr. Richard J. Jackson, Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Community Honorees:
Dr. Barbara Minzenberg, Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania's Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)
Ms. Maureen Murphy, Director of the Pennsylvania Key
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Award Honorees:
2013
Science Honoree:
Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program
Policy Honoree:
Honorable Michael A. Nutter, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Award Honoree:
2012
Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Arts/Media Honorees:
Meg Kissinger, Investigative Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Susanne Rust, Investigative Reporter, California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Youth Leadership Award Honorees:
Christina Bear & Eric Bear, Students & Activists
2011
Community Honoree:
Queen Zakia Rafiqa Shabazz, Executive Director, United Parents Against Lead
Policy Honoree:
Erik D. Olson, Deputy Director, Pew Health Group, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Arts/Media Honoree:
Sandra Steingraber, Ecologist; Author; Scholar in Residence, Ithica College
Science Honoree:
Herbert Needleman, Pediatrician, Child Psychiatrist, Researcher & Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
2010
Community Honoree:
Marva King, EJ Coordinator, EPA Office of Air and Radiation; CARE Program Co-Chair, EPA
Policy Honoree:
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
Arts/Media Honoree:
Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon; Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN
Science Honoree:
Martyn Smith, Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
2009
Community Honoree:
Peggy Shepard, Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Policy Honoree:
James W. Hubbard, Maryland House of Delegates
Bob Axelrad, Office of Air and Radiation, EPA
Science Honoree:
Michael Shannon, Pediatrician, Researcher & Professor, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
2008
Community Honoree:
Elizabeth Blackburn, Coordinator, Community Affairs and Outreach, Child and Aging Health Protection Division, Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education, EPA
Policy Honoree:
Bettina Poirier, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Science Honoree:
William Suk, Director, Superfund Research Program; and Center for Risk & Integrated Sciences (CRIS), NIEH
Frederica P. Perera, Professor, Mailman School of Public Health; and Director, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University
Greg Farmer
Child Health Advocate Honoree:
Wendy Gordan, Founder, Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet; and Editorial Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
2007
Policy Honoree:
John Edward Porter, former US Representative (Illinois)
Science Honoree:
Lynn R. Goldman, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Peter Robertson
2006
Carol Browner, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency