Dorothy Nyswander Open Society Award

Society for Public Health Education

Dorothy Nyswander Open Society Award:
•Applies health education and promotion processes to catalyze and significantly advance social change that fosters access to quality healthcare and health promoting initiatives for marginalized populations
•Possesses practitioner acumen and demonstrates strong communication capacity for learning about and addressing the ecological factors that make system changes a demonstrate evidence of improving a community’s quality of life
•Creates and actively endorses internal policies and/or infrastructures that lead collective teams of professionals in significant strides toward the reduction of health disparities as well as advocate for inclusion and equality.
•Serves as a visionary, courageous leader that advocates for, and gives voice to health injustices that affect marginalized communities.