IADR Aubrey Sheiham Award for Distinguished Research in Dental Public Health Sciences
About:
The Executive Committee of the Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group (BEHSR) of IADR announces the Aubrey Sheiham Award for Distinguished Research in Dental Public Health Sciences. This award recognizes a single research paper published between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009, in the field of dental public health; both applied and basic research papers are eligible.
The Sheiham award is intended to recognize excellence in dental public health research that would include research in epidemiology, biostatistics, health services, community-based prevention or health promotion, environmental health, health economics or health policy as applied to dentistry.
Procedure:
The award committee will accept self nominations or nominations by others until December 31, 2009. The paper should be accompanied by a brief letter describing why it is deemed worthy of the award. Nominations will be acknowledged by email or in writing. One of the primary authors for the manuscript selected for the award should be present at the appropriate IADR General Session to accept the award. If this is not possible someone should be designated to accept the award on their behalf.
Award:
The senior author will receive a cash award of $350, but all of the authors will be recognized.
Award deadline: December 31, 2009.
Please send nominations or enquiries to:
Anne Koerber, DDS, PhD, Immediate Past President
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatric Dentistry MC 850
801 S. Pauline
Chicago, IL 60612
312.996.9341
E-mail: akoerber@uic.edu
Sponsor:
Supported by the BEHSR Group.
Contributions toward the establishment of a fund in Dr. Sheiham's honor, dedicated to the support of this annual award, are most welcome.
2009 Recipient:
Anne E. Sanders, Sungwoo Lim and Woosung Sohn for the paper, Resilience to Urban Poverty: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations for Population Health. American Journal of Public Health, June 2008; 98(6): 1101-1106.
