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APHL Celebrates 2020 Award Winners
APHL is pleased to announce the winners
of its annual awards for outstanding
achievements in laboratory science,
creative approaches to solving today’s
public health challenges and exemplary
support of laboratories serving the public’s
health. Awardees were honored on June
25, 2020 during a virtual ceremony.
A recording of the awards ceremony
is available on APHL’s Facebook page.
Congratulations to all award winners!
The following awards were presented:
Lifetime Achievement Award
Recognizes individuals who have
established a history of distinguished
service to APHL, made significant
contributions to the advancement of
public health laboratory science or
practice, exhibited leadership in the
field of public health and/or positively
influenced public health policy on a
national or global level. This is not a
retirement award, but a true Lifetime
Achievement Award.
• Judith C. Lovchik, Indiana State
Department of Health
• John (Jack) M. DeBoy (posthumous),
formerly Maryland State Department of
Health Laboratories Administration
DIGITAL EXTRA: Celebrate the 2020
APHL Award Winners on Vimeo.
Gold Standard Award
Given to an APHL member who makes or
has made significant contributions to the
technical advancement of public health
laboratory science and/or practice.
• Noel V. Stanton, Wisconsin State
Laboratory of Hygiene
Silver Award
Honors a laboratorian with 10 to 15 years
of service in a Governmental public
health laboratory (either Public Health or
Environmental/Agricultural laboratory).
The honoree will be recognized as a leader
both within their home laboratory as well
as external to their laboratory.
• Michael J. Perry, New York State
Department of Health, Wadsworth
Center
• Robert Nickla, Oregon State Public
Health Laboratory
On the Front Line Award
Honors an individual or laboratory
outside of the APHL membership who
makes significant contributions to the
advancement of public health laboratory
science and/or practice.
• Ronald S. Klein, Association of Food
and Drug Officials (AFDO), Alaska
Department of Environmental
Conservation
Emerging Leader Award
Honors a laboratorian whose leadership
has been instrumental in one or more
advances in laboratory science, practice,
management, policy or education within
five to 10 years of working at a publicly
funded laboratory that conducts testing of
public health significance.
• Marty K. Soehnlen, Michigan
Department of Health and Human
Services, Bureau of Laboratories
Leadership in Biosafety and
Biosecurity Award
Honors a laboratorian with over 10 years
of related service in the field of biosafety
and biosecurity in a state and/or local
public health laboratory. The honoree will
be recognized as a leader both within
their home laboratory as well as external
to their laboratory (for example, by serving
in a leadership role in committees/
taskforces at the national level).
• Michael J. Perry, New York State
Department of Health, Wadsworth
Center
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