2021 Past Award Winners
USPHS Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award
This prestigious award recognizes pharmacy students who have made significant contributions to public health by promoting wellness and healthy communities. Specifically, students are evaluated on their contributions towards voluntary health related services, an emerging public health issue, or contributions that advance the goals of Health People 2030 or the National Prevention Strategy.
Today we face increasing public health crises in America as evidenced by the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, opioid epidemic, rise of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. With the advent of these public health issues, pharmacy students can play an important role in finding innovative ways to address these challenges. Therefore, the USPHS would like to recognize and encourage students to learn about public health and engage in public health efforts in their communities.
The Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy award is issued by the Pharmacist Professional Advisory Committee (PharmPAC) of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). The USPHS is led by the Surgeon General and is made up of more than 6,100 Commissioned Corps officers that work on the front lines of public health – fighting disease, conducting research, and caring for patients in underserved communities. This diverse team of highly-qualified healthcare professionals is driven by a passion to serve the underserved, and these men and women fill essential public health leadership and clinical service roles within the Nation’s Federal Government.
Now accepting award nominations for the 2022 Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award - Nominations due by January 15, 2022!
USPHS PharmPAC Chair Letter
USPHS PharmPAC Student Award Information Sheet
USPHS PharmPAC Student Award Application
2021 Award Recipients
Congratulations to 89 pharmacy students from across the country that have been recognized as the USPHS Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award recipients in 2021. Of those, the PharmPAC Student Awards Program selected ten top award recipients for their public health work that positively impacted their local communities and beyond. Please click on the top award recipient's photos below to learn more about their public health work accomplishments:
Joel A. Gardea Beltran
Texas A&M University Health Science Center Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy
Texas A&M University Health Science Center Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy
For his commendable planning and support of Operation Lone Star and leading the vaccination effort to vaccinate 500 vaccines to over 200 community residents.
Stephanie Hendricks
Purdue University College of Pharmacy
Purdue University College of Pharmacy
For developing, implementing and supporting HealthYOU (Health to the Power of You), an educational outreach program provided by Purdue pharmacy students for residents of Section 8 housing in Lafayette, Indiana.
Kristine Hoang
Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
For leading and developing multiple projects that have greatly impacted underserved populations.
Jacob Jordan
Idaho State University College of Pharmacy
Idaho State University College of Pharmacy
For developing and launching a COVID-19 Risk-Mitigation Program to support safe, efficient, on-site influenza and COVID-19 vaccination of the high-risk, underserved, community assisted living home residents.
Lucas Kosobuski
University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
For his skills and passion for research-informed practice to improve care for rural and Native American individuals with an opioid use disorder.
Samantha Lewiston
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
For outstanding leadership in the creation of new vaccination clinics, development of counter hesitancy through public education, and volunteering as a vaccinator at multiple sites led to the immunization of over 7000 individuals.
Tyler Pitcock
University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
For promoting immunization programs that have enhanced public health for thousands within the University of Kentucky campus, greater Lexington and Commonwealth of Kentucky communities.
Isabelle Sviatoslavsky
Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
For development of an Electronic Nicotine Delivery System education program for high school students.
William Campillo Terrazas
University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy
University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy
For developing interventions that promote education, awareness, and visibility of HIV among minority populations.
Margaret A. Underwood
Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
For global outreach efforts through publications and webinars to improve diagnostic interventions for COVID-19 response.
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