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Awards & Scholarships
Environmental Health Hero Award
Presented annually, the CleanMed
Environmental Health Hero Award recognizes an individual whose
professional accomplishments have significantly contributed to
advances in environmental health science or policy. The award is
given to someone whose achievements have both deepened our
understanding of the critical links between health and the
environment; and have catalyzed tangible policy or research
reforms that protect human health and the environment.
2011 Recipient:
Dr. Ted Schettler,
Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network
Practice Greenhealth Environmental
Excellence Awards
Don’t miss this opportunity to get the
credit you deserve for your environmental programs! Award
recipients represent hospitals and other providers of care as
well as healthcare-related businesses and organizations. The
awards program is designed to reward and encourage organizations
from those that have just begun their environmental programs, to
those whose programs are well established and are leading the
healthcare sector with innovative projects.
Charlotte Brody Award
Health Care Without Harm’s Nurses Workgroup
sponsors The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to
Environmental Health, an effort to capture the illuminating
stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by
improving the health of the environment. In 2006, the Charlotte
Brody Award was created by HCWH in honor of a lifelong advocate
for social change, a registered nurse and activist who has spent
her life making the world a safer place for people around the
world. The award recognizes a nurse’s endeavors toward
“brilliantly lighting the way to a healthier environment and
inspiring other nurses to do the same.”
Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction Award and
Scholarship
With the death eight years ago of Stephanie
C. Davis, healthcare waste reduction and pollution prevention in
healthcare lost a great and tireless champion. With the
invaluable support of Health Care Without Harm, Stephanie’s
colleagues, friends and family have established this Award and
Scholarship for CleanMed - to recognize and support those in
health care organizations who struggle to “green” healthcare.
Scholarship award winners will receive a
full conference-fee waiver; accommodations for two nights at the
conference hotel (accommodations may be shared with another
award winner); and a $500 travel stipend for transportation to
and from the conference.
2011 Recipients:
Andi Gordon,
Shriners Hospital for Children, Spokane, Washington
Claire Rupert,
Norton Healthcare, Louisville,
Kentucky
Linda Zengen, Lehigh
Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania
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