NYSPHA Announces 2025 Public Health Award Winners
We are thrilled to announce some of our public health heroes who were honored on Day 1 of the New York State Public Health Partnership Conference!
We’ll start with our very own New York State Public Health Association (NYSPHA) Members of the Year:
Amanda Horner, MPH, CHES®
Then, NYSPHA member and Scarsdale High School junior Alina Yang was awarded Student Excellence in Public Health along with Anthony Un and Zoe Olcott.
Legislator of the Year was awarded to:
Assemblymember Anna Kelles, PhD
Senator Pete Harckham
We’re thrilled to announce that the NYSPHA Climate Committee was awarded the Environmental Health Leadership Award along with Milagros Rosado Elia, MA, APRN, ANP-BC and Jennifer Delaney!
The Herman M. Biggs Lifetime Achievement Award:
Daniel J. Stapleton
Outstanding Contribution for Individual Service:
Outstanding Contribution for Local Health Department Service:
Office of Health Equity, Nassau County Department of Health
Kevin Watkins, MD, MPH
Outstanding Contribution for Rural Local Health Department Service:
Jessica Darney Buehler and Elizabeth Terry, ESSEX COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Tompkins County Whole Health
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Lead Prevention Program
New York State Fellowship Excellence in Public Health:
Karley Copeland
Congratulations to all our award winners, and thank you for all you do for our New York State communities!
