2021 Awards
The Roger Fossum Award
Winner: Neil Twitchell
The Roger Fossum Award is a lifetime achievement award that is presented to a senior public health individual who has made significant contributions to public health throughout their career.
Friend of Public Health Award
Individual Winner: Alyson Cobb
Organizational Winner: Makin' It Happen, under the direction of Mary Forsythe Taber
The Friend of Public Health Award is presented to a person or to a group who has been instrumental in practicing and/or promoting public health in the state.
The NH Community Health Service Award
Winner: David Kreuger
The NH Community Health Service Award recognizes for-profit businesses making a significant contribution to improving the health of NH residents. It is NHPHA's intent that nominees outside the public health tradition be considered for this award. A nominee does not need to be a NHPHA member.
The Rising Star Award
Winner: Salinda Chagnon
The Rising Star Award honors a public health professional who has been in the field less than five (5) years and has both contributed to public health and has demonstrated significant potential - a rising star in the field!
NEW IN 2021: The Raaga Devineni Equity and Justice Award
Winners: Trinidad Tellez and Kirsten Durzy
The Raaga Devineni Equity and Justice Award was established in memory of Raaga Devineni, who served as the first coordinator of the NH COVID-19 Equity Task Force. The award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated passion, commitment, and dedication to promoting health, economic, and social justice for everyone in New Hampshire.
Past Recipients
Roger Fossum Award
2020
Suz Friedrich, MBA, PMP
Formerly of the Community Health Institute
2019
Audrey Knight, MSN
Formerly of NH DPHS
2018
Linda Saunders Paquette, Esq.
President and CEO, New Futures
2017
Helen Taft
Executive Director, Families First Health & Support Center, Portsmouth, NH
2016
Nick Toumpas
Former Commissioner, NH DHHS
2015
Ned Helms, MA
NH Institute for Health Policy and Practice
2014
Sandi Van Scoyoc
Former President of the HNH Foundation
2013
Kathy Mandeville, RN, MPH
NHPHA Past-President and Policy Co-Chair
2012
Joan Ascheim, BSN, MSN
Bureau Chief, Bureau of Policy and Performance Management
Mary Vallier Kaplan, MHSA
Interim President and COO, Endowment for Health
2011
John W. Seavey, MPH, PhD
Professor and Sackett Professor
College of Health and Human Services
University of New Hampshire
2010
Richard DiPentima, BSN, MPH
NH House Representative
NH State Capital Building
2009
Elaine Frank, MHS
Director of the Injury Prevention Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Former NHPHA Board of Directors Member
2008
Dr. Albee Budnitz
Doctor of Pulmonary Medicine
Past President of the New Hampshire Medical Society
2007
Kate Hartnett
Senior Project Director
The Jordan Institute
2006
Donald Bent
Health Officer Town of New London
Former NHPHA Board of Directors Member
2005
Alphonse A. Haettenschwiller, MPH
former NH State Representative
2004
Kathleen G. Sgambati
former Deputy Commissioner
NH Department of Health & Human Services
2003
Frederick A. Rusczek, MPH
Public Health Director
City of Manchester Department of Health
Prior to 2003, the Roger Fossum Lecturer Award was presented to the chosen keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting held in April of each year.
Past recipients include:
2002
Timothy H. Holtz, MD, MPH
Medical Epidemiologist
Bureau of Disease Intervention
New York City Department of Health
2001
James W. Squires, MD
President
Endowment for Health, Inc.
2000
Robert K. McLellan, MD, MPH
Occupational Medicine
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
1999
George A. Hacker
Director
Alcohol Policies Project
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Washington, DC
1998
Philip T. McLaughlin
Attorney General (& the Office of Attorney General)
State of NH
1997
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD
Professor of Public Health Practice
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Department of Health Policy & Management
Harvard School of Public Health
The Rising Star Award
2020
Angela Consentino
Epidemiologist, City of Nashua Division of Public Health and Community Services (DPHCS)
2019
Kelley Gaspa
Assistant Director and Director of Behavioral Health Initiative, Partnership for Public Health
2018
Sara Rainer
Project Manager, CDC Disability in Public Health
2017
Sophia Japhet
Manchester Health Department
2016
Adelaide Murray
Student, University of NH
2015
Melissa Schoemmell, MPH
City of Nashua, Division of Public Health and Community Services
2014
Tyler Brandow, MPH
Accreditation Coordinator
NH Division of Public Health Services
2013
Katrina Hansen, MPH
Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Manager
NH Dept. of Health and Human Services
2012
Ashley Peters, MPH
Research Associate
New Hampshire Institute for Healh Policy and Practice
University of New Hampshire
2011 (First Recipient)
Mike Jeudy
Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
Friend of Public Health Award
2020
Michael Apfelberg, President of Greater Nashua United Way
2019
Sally A. Kraft, MD, MPH, Vice President for Population Engagement, Dartmouth-Hitchcock; Medical Director, High Value Healthcare Collaborative
2018
Dan Feltes
Senator, New Hampshire
Tom Irwin
Vice President and Director, Conservation Law Foundation, NH
2017Jeffrey Fetter, MD
Chief Medical Officer, NH Department of Corrections
New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
2016
Mary Anne Fergusen
Monadnock HEAL and Healthy Monadnock 2020
Eric Adams
Laconia Police Department
2015
Timothy Soucy, MPH, REHS
City of Manchester Public Health Department
Neil Twitchell
Division of Public Health Services, NH DHHS
2014
Healthy Monadnock 2020
Cheshire Medical Center/ Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene
2013
Lindsay Dearborn, M.Ed, MPH
Former NHPHA Secretary and Policy Member
Retired
2012
Yvonne Goldsberry, PhD, MPH
Senior Director of Community Health
Cheshire Medical Center/ Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene
2011
Tony Matarazzo
Former NH House Representative
Nashua, NH
2010
Mary Vallier-Kaplan, MHSA
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Endowment for Health
2009
Dr. Jose Montero
Director of the Public Health Services
Department of Health and Human Services
2008
Dr. Oglesby H. Young
Practicing Obstetrician
Founder of the "Healthy Beginnings" endowment
President of the New Hampshire Medical Society
2007
Dr. Jim McCarthy
Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of New Hampshire
Former Dean of the School of Health and Human Services
2006
Dr. Jesse Greenblatt
Former State Epidemiologist
2005
Jesse Greenblatt, MD
State Epidemiologist
NH Department of Health & Human Services
2005
Tricia Brooks, MBA
and members of the NH Healthy Kids Corporation
2004
American Cancer Society
New Hampshire Division
2003
Deborah Carluccio
and members of the Smoke Free NH Alliance
2002
The Honorable Katherine Wells Wheeler
former NH Senator
2000
James W. Squires, MD
President
Endowment for Health, Inc.
1999
Dianne Luby
NH Department of Health & Human Services
Office of Community & Public Health
President's Award
The PRESIDENT'S AWARD is given at the discretion of the President to honor an individual who has provided exceptional service to the Association.
2019
Katie Robert, MPA
Consultant, Community Health Institute/JSI; Adjunct Faculty Member, Rivier University; and former NHPHA President
Neil Twitchell
Administrator, Bureau of Environmental Health and Community Health Development Section, NH DPHS
2018
Marie Mulroy
Former NHPHA President
2017
J.J. Smith
Retired, NHPHA Public Policy Committee Co-Chair
2016
Deanna Bennett
Executive Assistant, NH Public Health Association
2015
Ashley Conley, MS, CPH
City of Nashua Public Health Services
Abbott Willard
NH Institute for Health Policy and Practice
2014
Laura Davie
Project Director, Institute for Health Policy and Practice
University of New Hampshire
Jeanie Holt, MS, MPH
Past-President NH Public Health Association
Retired
2013
Amy Newbury, MBA.GBL
BSC Manager
University of New Hampshire
Ashley Peters, MPH
Project Director, NH Institute for Health Policy and Practice
University of New Hampshire
2012
Laura Davie
Project Director, NH Institute for Health Policy and Practice
University of New Hampshire
2011
Maureen Quinn, RN, BSN, MPH
Public Health Analyst
Health Resources and Services Administration/Office of Performance Review
2010
Jeanie Holt, MS, RN
Adult Immunization Program
Manchester Health Department
The NH Community Health Service Award
