The American Public Health Association announces that the Martha May Eliot Award Committee is receiving nominations for the 1967 recipient. Former recipients have been Harold Coe Stuart, M.D., and Arthur J. Lesser, M.D. The 1966 recipient has been selected and will be announced in June. The award is a handsome plaque bearing a bas relief of Dr. Eliot and a purse of $1,000, made possible by Ross Laboratories.
The nominees must be professional workers from the field of maternal and child health; they need not be members and fellows of APHA. Preferably they should be workers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, but selection is not limited geographically. Preferably, too, nominees should still be active in their fields, and achievements indicating high quality and originality of contributions rather than longevity should be emphasized. Nominations are sought of persons who have made unusual contributions to education, administration or research in the field of maternal and child health.
The purpose of the award is to honor unusual achievement in the field of maternal and child health, to bring such achievement to the eyes of related professional people and the public, to stimulate young people in the field to emulate the efforts resulting in such recognition, and to add within the profession and in the eyes of the public to the stature of professional workers in the field of maternal and child health.
Nominations should be sent before August 15 to the American Public Health Association, 1790 Broadway, New York 10019. The name of the nominee should be accompanied by a clear succinct statement of the unusual achievement in the field of Maternal and Child Health which the nominator believes is worthy of the Martha May Eliot Award.
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