PAST CAUCUS Awardees 

Distinguished Lifetime Membership

Distinguished Lifetime Membership is conferred as a recognition on those leaders who have devoted their time, knowledge and abilities to the advancement of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer public health.#@#_WA_-_CURSOR_-_POINT_#@#

Honorees:

2020:

José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA

President, American Public Health Association

Lisa Carlson, MPH

President, American Public Health Association

2017

Dan Mertens

Prior

Walter Lear, MD

Founder, LGBTQ Health Caucus (formerly the LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals)

Grant W. Farmer Memorial Scholarship Award

2017 APHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta

Musarrat Rahman, MPH, was the Grant W. Farmer Memorial Scholarship Awardee! Musarrat shared her work from her master's thesis in a poster session titled,  "Watching your back: How much do people at increased risk actually know about human papillomavirus (HPV) and its association with anal cancer?" We look forward to more promising intersectional LGBTQ public health work from Musarrat!

2016 APHA Annual Meeting in Denver

First, Joanne Patterson, hailing from a Ph.D. program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, won our selection committees hearts with a compelling application. Joanne has worked tirelessly to bring LGBTQ inclusion into her work at multiple levels throughout her career and educational endeavors. Joanne exemplified the deep commitment to improving the lives of our community members through public health, advocacy, and education that were the values we wished to honor about our friend, colleague, and past LGBT Caucus Chair, Grant.

Second, we honored Alvin Tran, a Doctor of Science student from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of public health, whose work both prior to graduate school and during is indicative of a strong commitment to the LGBTQ community and improving our community’s health.

And last, but not least, DaRel Barksdale, a DrPh candidate at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. DaRel came to public health through volunteer services, and seeks to use his education fro furthering community involvement in LGBTQ health, with a specific emphasis on the cultural aspects of communicating public health interventions with MSMs and MSMs of color.

We would like to congratulate these three awardees for their efforts on the Scholarship application, and also their commitment and dedication to LGBTQ public health.

Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award

The Caucus established the Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award to recognize exceptional work by students on LGBT-related issues. The award consists of a stipend and free caucus membership. All students who submit an abstract to the Caucus for consideration for the annual meeting are eligible for this award.

Walter J. Lear was one of the founders and a longtime chair of the Caucus. He founded the Caucus in 1975 and worked with APHA to inform them of our health issues and the need for research. Click here to read Walter's Obituary

Thanks to Carmine Novembre of Pfizer for support of the Walter Lear Student Award.