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Awarded to Dr. Laura Anderko
Health Care Without Harm’s Nurses
Workgroup sponsors The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way
to Environmental Health, an effort to capture the illuminating
stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by
improving the health of the environment.
In 2006, the Charlotte Brody Award was
created by HCWH in honor of a lifelong advocate for social
change, a registered nurse and activist who has spent her life
making the world a safer place for people around the world. The
award recognizes a nurse’s endeavors toward “brilliantly
lighting the way to a healthier environment and inspiring other
nurses to do the same.”
Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, Robert
and Kathleen Scanlon Chair in Values Based Healthcare, and
Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, Georgetown
University School of Nursing and Health Studies
The recipient of the 2009 Charlotte Brody Award is Dr.
Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, of Georgetown University School of
Nursing and Health Studies. Dr. Anderko was chosen because of
the shining example she has set as a role model, researcher,
educator, advocate, author and leader in the important work of
improving public health by protecting the environment.
Additionally, Dr. Anderko’s long-time commitment and passion
have inspired her nursing colleagues, nursing students and
others; raised nurses’ awareness of the vital role they can play
in environmental advocacy; and helped position the nursing
profession at the forefront of environmental health issues.
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