Faculty Achievement in Community Engagement Awards
Since 2005 , this award acknowledges outstanding accomplishments by a College of Public Health faculty member in leadership for community service. The award is presented by the CPH Board of Advisors.
2008: Charles F. Lynch
Charles F. Lynch, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of epidemiology, has made significant research contributions in bladder cancer diagnosis, lymphoma etiology, and risk of cancer related to environmental exposures. As medical director of the State Health Registry of Iowa, he oversees a statewide staff that conducts cancer surveillance in Iowa and reports to the National Cancer Institute. Lynch directs the Iowa field station participating in the Agricultural Health Study, a long-term study of agricultural exposures and chronic diseases among farmers. Lynch embraced the concept of academic service to the community through leadership, clinical practice and educational outreach. For many years, he has been interacting with community, county and state medical societies, as well as nursing, histology, cytology, and tumor registrars’ organizations, and local hospital oncology programs, making over 150 presentations.
2007: Peter E. Nathan
Peter E. Nathan, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology and professor of community and behavioral health, has conducted groundbreaking work in the recognition and treatment of alcohol abuse and other addictive behaviors, including a focus on binge drinking of undergraduate students. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, more than 20 books or monographs, and more than 90 chapters in scholarly books. At the local level, Nathan is an active member of the Iowa City Alcohol Awareness Work Group. He has provided testimony to the city council and presented information to community organizations in an effort to intervene in underage and excessive alcohol consumption in Iowa City.
2006: Christopher G. Atchison
Christopher G. Atchison, clinical professor of health management and policy, has made a career of providing service to communities across Iowa and beyond. As the College of Public Health's associate dean for public health practice, Atchison oversees numerous public health practice outreach and training activities and leads collegiate interactions with the public health practice community. He is also the director of two collegiate centers - the Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness and the Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center. Atchison has provided leadership to many organizations at the state and regional levels, including the State of Iowa’s Prevention of Disabilities Policy Council and Child and Family Policy Council. Nationally, he is the program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Leadership Initiative, on the governing boards of the Community Campus Partnerships for Health and the National Academy for State Health Policy, and is the current chair of HRSA’s National Public Health Training Center Network.
2005: Laurence Fuortes
Laurence Fuortes, M.D., professor of occupational and environmental health, leads numerous projects with major community service components, including programs focused on pesticide toxicology, traumatic head and spinal cord injury, and his direction of the Burlington Atomic Energy Commission Plant-Former Worker Program (BAECP-FWP). Fuortes has also been an active member of many community-based organizations in the Iowa City area, including the Iowa City Free Medical Clinic, the Iowa City Crisis Center and Foodbank, the Johnson County Coalition Against Tobacco Addiction Among Youth, and the Salvation Army. In 2002, Fuortes was the recipient of a Fulbright Research/Lectureship Award, which he used to conduct tuberculosis surveillance and prevention research and teach medical students in community health at the University of Natal in South Africa