The 2017 Delta Omega Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum goes to Dr. Mike Stoots, who submitted “Project EARTH: An Innovation in Education and an Education in Innovation” on behalf of the Alpha Pi Chapter of East Tennessee State University College of Public Health. 

[Photo: Dr. Mike Stoots] 

The following submissions also received an honorable mention:  

• Gamma Chapter- University of Hawaii Office of Public Health Studies – “PH 480: Application of Public Health Principles in Research and Practice” 
• Beta Eta Chapter – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Program in Public Health – “Foundations in Public Health” 
• Omicron Chapter – University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health –  “Law in Public Health Practice: An Interdisciplinary, Practice-Based Approach to Public Health Education” 
• Lambda Chapter – University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health  –  “Engaged Scholarship: Methods for Identifying and Researching Complex Change” 

The Delta Omega Executive Committee would like to recognize the overall quality of submissions for this year’s awards. 

Winning and recognized submissions will be presented at the annual meeting of the national council and the Academic Public Health Caucus poster session during the 2017 APHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.  Summaries will also be posted on the Delta Omega website following the Delta Omega annual meeting and presented by webinar in early 2018.