Leonard S. Robins Best Paper Award on Health Politics and Policy
The Leonard S. Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award, who through his presence and gentle questioning at virtually every health politics panel graciously nurtured the scholarship of both junior and senior scholars. The award recognizes the best paper on any subject that fits under the rubric of Health Politics and Policy presented at the previous annual APSA meeting. All papers presented at panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the OSHPP are eligible for consideration, and may be nominated by panel chairs and discussants. All other substantively appropriate papers presented at panels organized by other sections, divisions, and related groups are also eligible, if the authors made an electronic version of their paper available to view online.
2019 Award Committee:
Elizabeth Rigby (chair) (George Washington University)
Matthew Kavanaugh (Georgetown)
Isabel Perera (University of Pennsylvania)
Previous Recipients
| 2018 | Isabel M. Perera, University of Pennsylvania “Deinstitutionalization Revisited: The Role of Public Psychiatrists in France and the United States“ |
| 2017 | Holly Jarmin, University of Michigan “Normalizing Tobacco? The Politics of Trade and Tobacco Control” |
| 2016 | Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Minnesota “The Contingency of Policy Feedback Effects: How Policy Features Interact with Political Conditions and Motivations to Shape Public Opinion.” |
| 2016 | Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University “The Contingency of Policy Feedback Effects: How Policy Features Interact with Political Conditions and Motivations to Shape Public Opinion.” |
| 2014 | Miriam Laugesen, Columbia University “Policy Complexity and Professional Capture in Federal Rulemaking.” |
Award for Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy
Awarded to an individual who has been working to improve health and the health care system by actively engaging in politics and policy making.
2019 Award Committee:
Julie Lynch (University of Pennsylvania), Jacqueline Chattopadhyay (UNC Charlotte), John Hoornbeek (Kent State University)
Previous Recipients:
| 2018 John McDonough, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| 2017 Drew Altman, Kaiser Family Foundation |
| 2016 Bruce C. Vladeck, Nexera, Inc. |
| 2015 Amy Berman, John A. Hartford Foundation |
| 2015 Judy Heumann, United States Department of State |
| 2014 Judith Feder, Georgetown University |