2023 MEMBERSHIP ANNUAL MEETING

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Join fellow public health professionals and leaders at the New Hampshire Public Health Association's Membership Annual Meeting on April 11, from 1 - 6 pm at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. 

The Membership Annual Meeting brings public health professionals and friends together to connect, network, learn, and celebrate. The program features a keynote presentation, student poster sessions, an award ceremony, and the NHPHA leadership celebration reception.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The membership annual meeting is an opportunity to connect with state-wide public health leaders and friends whose mission is to improve the public's health in New Hampshire.

WHY ATTEND?
  • CONNECT with like-minded public health professionals and friends.​
  • CELEBRATE public health champions.

PROGRAM FEATURES
  • Keynote Session
  • Student Poster Session
  • Public Health Awards Ceremony
  • Membership Reception

STUDENT POSTER SESSION
At the Membership Annual Meeting, NHPHA hosts a Student Poster Session. This is an opportunity for students conducting health research and community-based work to present their research work and network with public health professionals. The event aims to empower students and facilitate employment and research partnerships while offering students professional development opportunities. Posters are judged, and prizes are awarded to the best student posters.

PUBLIC HEALTH AWARDS CEREMONY
This event celebrates professionals and organizations that are making a positive impact on the public health of our state. The event recognizes our public health champions who have done great work to improve the public's health. View NHPHA Past Awardees. 
  • Roger Fossum Award: This lifetime achievement award is presented to a senior public health individual who has made significant contributions to public health throughout their career.
  • ​The Raaga Devineni Equity and Justice Award: This award was established in 2021 in memory of Raaga Devineni, who served as the first coordinator of the COVID-19 Equity Task Force. The award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated passion, commitment, and dedication to promoting health, and economic and social justice for everyone in New Hampshire.
  • Friend of Public Health Award: The award is presented to a person or group who has been instrumental in practicing and/or promoting public health in the state.
  • 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.​
  • New Hampshire Community Health Service Award: This award recognizes for-profit businesses making a significant contribution to improving the health of NH residents. NHPHA intends that nominees outside the public health tradition be considered for this award. A nominee does not need to be an NHPHA member.
  • Rising Star Award: This award honors a public health professional who has been in the field less than five (5) years, contributed to public health, and demonstrated significant potential - a rising star in the public health field! ​

2023 Award Recipients 

Roger Fossum Award Recipient

KATIE DUNN

Katie had a stellar career. She was employed by Concord Hospital for twenty years as an ICU/CCU, PACU RN. She supervised ER Admitting. She opened the New Hampshire office of the New England Organ Bank. She spent twenty-three years employed by the State of New Hampshire. Beginning in Maternal and Child Health as a nurse consultant, bureau Chief of Communicable Disease, and Director of Public Health. As Medicaid Director, Katie oversaw several reform initiatives, including the transition to Managed care and a Premium Assistance Program as part of the state's Medicaid Expansion. She was the Associate Commissioner of Health and Human Services. One of her career highlights was writing the CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program), a pilot program for the country, under then Governor Jeanne Shaheen. She was a tireless and compassionate advocate for people with disabilities and their families. Her career concluded as Senior Program Director for the National Academy of State Health Policy in Portland, Maine, and Washington, DC. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Medicaid Leadership Fellow.

The Raaga Devineni Equity and Justice Award

PAULA SMITH, MBA, EdD

Paula Smith is the Director of Southern NH AHEC. Dr. Smith has led activities of the Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center, a program of Lamprey Health Care, since its inception in 1998.  In this role she is responsible for program development, financial management and overseeing staff who work to recruit and retain a workforce to increase access to quality health care in southern NH.  For more than twenty years, Dr. Smith has been instrumental in developing programs that enhance workforce diversity, communication access and cultural effectiveness.  In 2020, Dr. Smith established the SNHAHEC Center for Cultural Effectiveness which houses interpretation and community health worker training as well as workforce diversity programs for youth, the Diversity and Cultural Competence Trainers’ Circle and the Equity Leaders Fellowship Program.

Friend of Public Health Award

JIM KEADY

Since 2012 Jim and Cecilia Keady have been in the business of delivering medical services. Consumers of healthcare themselves, Jim and Cecilia felt the care offices that they had experience with were far from where it should be in terms of health outcomes, customer service, and consistent long-term provider-patient relations. The Keady's now employs 27 medical professionals throughout six different medical businesses. Hard work is something Jim and Cecilia have embraced both at work and at home. No challenge has proved to be too much as they push forward trying to make a difference in Sullivan County. Jim Keady has been part of the State of NH Dept of Public Health-Immunization Section program for years as a VFC vaccine provider, but what he and his team (Keady Family and On-Site) have done throughout the pandemic has in so many ways allowed NH to get through some of the most challenging aspects of our response. Jim continues to be involved to this day as the medical direction provider for the NH School Based Vaccination Clinics and also offers free telehealth appts, distributing free COVID testing supplies and free COVID testing at their fixed sites. Jim and his team are dedicated and have proven to be exceptional partners to Public Health and the Citizens of NH.

President’s Award

GAIL TUDOR, PhD

Dr. Gail Tudor is the Program Director of Public Health at Southern New Hampshire University and the past president of NHPHA.  Her former roles include Chair of Mathematics and Science, and Director of Institutional Research at Husson University; Biostatistical Consultant at Eastern Maine Medical Center; Assistant Director for the Biostatistics Consulting Laboratory at UNC. Dr. Tudor has over 25 years of experience in providing statistical consultation for research in medicine and public health. Throughout her four years with NHPHA Gail was actively involved in the mentor program, TUTA and annual meeting planning, revision of NHPHA’s vision, mission and values, and began the successful use of MPH interns to help support the activities of NHPHA.  

New Hampshire Community Health Service Award

ON-SITE MEDICAL SERVICES

On-Site Medical Services is a research-driven company dedicated to providing cost-effective, innovative, and convenient medical solutions to strengthen the health and well-being of the communities we serve. We are committed to the highest standards of excellence for the patients we serve, and we provide non-emergent medical mobile and stationary medical services throughout New England, serving underserved communities. We are at the forefront of fighting infectious diseases in the communities we serve, and we have been a leader in adopting new technologies and strategies to fight infectious diseases.

Rising Star Award

GRACE ROY

Grace Roy currently works as a Project Associate at JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. Ms. Roy primarily works on projects related to substance use, harm reduction, and school-based Medicaid technical assistance. In addition to her experience at JSI, Grace has over 10 years of volunteer and professional experience in the substance use prevention field in NH. In 2022, Grace graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Health Management and Policy: Public Health. During her time at UNH, Grace completed a senior thesis project investigating the efficacy of a telehealth-based therapy for people with chronic pain.
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Past Awardees
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