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Announcement: Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health

Journal of Appalachian Health Editor-in-Chief, F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, was honored with the Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health at APHA’s Annual Meeting this month. This year’s medal was awarded to him based on his outstanding contributions to public health services research, accreditation of local public health departments, and his many years of mentorship of professional students and practitioners.

The Sedgwick Memorial Medal, APHA’s oldest and most prestigious award, was established in honor of the late Professor William Thompson Sedgwick and was first awarded by APHA for distinguished service and advancement of public health knowledge and practice in 1929. Professor Sedgwick was president of APHA in 1915 and Head of the Department of Biological and Public Health at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1883 to 1921. The Sedgwick award, one of the highest honors bestowed by APHA, is a true accolade of the profession, the recognition by an individual’s colleagues of outstanding accomplishments in the field of public health.

Previous awardees include Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Jose F. Cordero, Lawrence W. Green, Richard J. Jackson, David Satcher, Robert S. Lawrence, C. William Keck, William H. McBeath, William H. Foege, Julius B. Richmond, Lester Breslow, and Karl F. Meyer.

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