Do you know an outstanding youth who has displayed exceptional leadership on behalf of children’s environmental health, equity, or climate justice?
Nominate them for the Children’s Environmental Health Network’s 2026 Nsedu Obot Witherspoon (NOW) Youth Leadership Award! Winners will be honored at the annual Child Health Advocate Awards event held on Children’s Environmental Health Day on October 8, 2026, in Washington DC.
Deadline March 15, 2026
This celebration honors advocates for their leadership on behalf of children’s environmental health, equity, and climate action and justice. CEHN honors these incredible leaders each year at an awards ceremony in Washington DC on Children’s Environmental Health Day.
The Child Health Advocate Awards honor outstanding children’s environmental health leaders (age 22 and up) in Policy, Science, Community, Business, and Arts/Media. These child health champions have gone above and beyond to create systemic change, protecting children from environmental hazards.
The NOW Youth Leadership Award was created as part of the Children’s Environmental Health Network’s 20th-anniversary celebration in 2012, in honor of Executive Director Nsedu Obot Witherspoon. This award honors a young person who has demonstrated exceptional environmental health leadership–protecting human health, especially of our most vulnerable populations.
