Awards & Scholarships

Environmental Health Hero Award
Presented annually, the CleanMed Environmental Health Hero Award recognizes an individual whose professional accomplishments have significantly contributed to advances in environmental health science or policy. The award is given to someone whose achievements have both deepened our understanding of the critical links between health and the environment; and have catalyzed tangible policy or research reforms that protect human health and the environment.

Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards
Don’t miss this opportunity to get the credit you deserve for your environmental programs! Award recipients represent hospitals and other providers of care as well as healthcare-related businesses and organizations. The awards program is designed to reward and encourage organizations from those that have just begun their environmental programs, to those whose programs are well established and are leading the healthcare sector with innovative projects.
 

Charlotte Brody Award
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.”

Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction Award and Scholarship
With the death seven years ago of Stephanie C. Davis, healthcare waste reduction and pollution prevention in healthcare lost a great and tireless champion. With the invaluable support of Health Care Without Harm, Stephanie’s colleagues, friends and family have established this Award and Scholarship for CleanMed - to recognize and support those in health care organizations who struggle to “green” healthcare. CleanMed is honored to present our four award / scholarship recipients, selected through a competitive process, for their past accomplishments and their ambitious plans to continue healthcare waste reduction and pollution prevention in the healthcare sector.

Winners of the Stephanie Davis Award and Scholarship for 2010 will receive a $500 travel stipend; a full registration fee waiver for the conference and any pre-conference events; and 2 nights (room and tax only) at one of the CleanMed hotels adjacent to the Convention Center.

Hollie Shaner-McRae Nursing Student Essay Contest
In an effort to spread the word to nursing students of the important role nurses can and do play in advocating for environmental health goals, the Nurses Work Group of Health Care Without Harm, along with The Luminary Project, has created the Hollie Shaner-McRae Nursing Student Essay Contest. In an essay of 600 to 1500 words the contestants were asked to discuss the nurse’s role as an environmental health activist.