Kotch selected for national maternal and child health award
| September 24, 2008 | |
Dr. Jonathan Kotch
Jonathan B. Kotch, MD, MPH, has been named winner of the 2008 Martha May Eliot Award by the American Public Health Association. The award honors exceptional achievements in maternal and child health. Kotch, professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, will accept the award at the Association’s meeting in San Diego in October. As a renowned scholar in pediatrics and maternal and child health, Kotch has studied and written about child care, injury prevention for children, and perinatal health, among other topics, and has been a lifelong advocate and activist for children’s health and safety. He joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health faculty in 1978 and is director of the North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center. Since 1997, he has directed the National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants. “This prestigious award is a testimonial to Jonathan’s outstanding achievements in maternal and child health. He richly deserves this recognition, and we are very proud of him,” says Herbert Peterson, MD, chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health and professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the School of Medicine. The School’s Department of Maternal and Child Health has a long tradition of faculty members being honored with the Eliot Award, including Drs. Arden Miller (1984), Earl Siegel (1991), and Naomi Morris (1999).
School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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