Teaching Excellence and Innovation Awards
The student-nominated Teaching Excellence and Innovation Awards honor faculty members who inspire students; enhance student learning through creative, engaging and innovative teaching methods; and/or support student success in the classroom and student growth as public health professionals.
The teaching innovation initiative developed out of the School’s SPH2020 efforts and through a teaching and learning task force held at the School in 2011. The task force had recommended identification, encouragement and reward of high-quality teaching; enhanced technology and applications for teaching and learning; and identification and support of faculty members who are early adopters of curriculum innovation.
A $500 prize is intended to help each winner advance his or her educational development in teaching and learning.
Nominations are to be submitted online via Qualtrics survey. The department with the highest response rate will receive a $150 donation to their student government. The deadline for submissions will be March 3, 2021.
Previous Recipients
2020 Awardees
BIOS – Yuchao Jiang, PhD, Assistant Professor
ESE – William Vizuete, PhD, Associate Professor
EPID – Kimberly Powers, PhD, Associate Professor
HB – Meg Landfried, MPH, Assistant Professor and MPH Practicum Director
HPM – Susan Helm-Murtagh, DrPH, Assistant Professor
MCH – Aunchalee Palmquist, PhD, Assistant Professor
NUTR – Stephanie Martin, PhD, Assistant Professor
PHLP – Aimee McHale, JD, MSPH, Assistant Professor
2018-2019
Seema Agrawal, EdD, Clinical Assistant Professor, NUTR
Alexandra Lightfoot, EdD, Assistant Professor, HB
Benjamin Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, HPM
Alyssa Mansfield Damon, PhD, Assistant Professor, HPM
Karin Yeatts, PhD, Associate Professor, EPID
Dana Rice, DrPH, Assistant Professor, PHLP
Catherine Sullivan, MPH, Assistant Professor, MCH
Feng-Chang Lin, PhD, Associate Professor, BIOS
Marc Serre, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
2017-2018
Carolyn Crump, PhD, Associate Professor, HB
Amanda Holliday, MS, Assistant Professor, NUTR
Whitney Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, EPID
Kathy Roggenkamp, MA, Research Instructor, BIOS
Meghan Shanahan, PhD, Assistant Professor, MCH
Jason Surratt, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
Justin Trogdon, PhD, Associate Professor, HPM
Vaughn Upshaw, DrPH, EdD, Professor, PHLP
2016-2017
Gustavo Angeles, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, MCH
Lori Evarts, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, PHLP
Jane Monaco, DrPH, Clinical Associate Professor, BIOS
Sonia Napravnik, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, EPID
Luz McNaughton Reyes, PhD, esearch Assistant Professor, HB
Marc Serre, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
Janice Sommers, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, NUTR
Morris Weinberger, PhD, Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management and Chair, HPM
2015-2016
Geni Eng, DrPH, Professor, HB
Amy Herring ScD, Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children’s Environmental Health and Associate Chair, BIOS
Amanda Holliday, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor, NUTR
Brian Pence, PhD, Associate Professor, EPID
Anna Schenck, PhD, Professor of the Practice and Director of the Public Health Leadership Program; Director, North Carolina Institute for Public Health: Associate Dean for Practice
Christine Tucker, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, MCH
Howard Weinberg, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
Aimee McHale Wayling, JD, MSPH, Adjunct Instructor, HPM
2014-2015
Lori Evarts, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, PHLP
Jane Monaco, DrPH, Clinical Associate Professor, BIOS
John Paul, PhD, Clinical Professor, HPM
Brian Pence, PhD, Assistant Professor, EPID
Kurt Ribisl, PhD, Professor, HB
June Stevens, PhD, AICR/WCRF Distinguished Professor, NUTR
Jill Stewart, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
Christine Tucker, PhD, lecturer, MCH
2013-2014
Stephen Cole, PhD, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, EPID
Lori Evarts, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, PHLP
Rebecca Fry, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
Amanda Holliday, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor, NUTR
Beth Moracco, PhD, Research Associate Professor, HB; Adjunct Associate Professor, MCH
Lewis Margolis, MD, Associate Professor, MCH
Kathy Roggenkamp, MA, Instructor, BIOS
Karl Umble, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Distance Learning Specialist, HPM
2012-2013
Orlando Coronell, PhD, Assistant Professor, ESE
Amy Herring, ScD, Professor, BIOS
Amanda Holliday, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor, NUTR
John Paul, PhD, Clinical Professor, HPM
Kurt Ribisl, PhD, Professor, HB
David Richardson, PhD, Associate Professor, EPID
Marcia Roth, MPH, Director of Training Initiatives, MCH
Anthony Viera, MD, Director, Health Care and Prevention MPH, PHLP
2011-2012
Linda Adair, PhD, Professor, NUTR
Rebecca Fry, PhD, Associate Professor, ESE
Sherri Green, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, MCH
Amy Herring, ScD, Professor, BIOS
Diane Kelly, DrPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor, PHLP
John Paul, PhD, Clinical Professor, HPM
Charles Poole, ScD, Associate Professor, EPID
Kurt Ribisl, PhD, Professor, HB