• Previous recipients of awards may not be considered for re-nomination for the same award until ten (10) years have passed since the initial award.
  
• Deceased persons are not eligible for consideration for awards.
  
• Members of the Awards Committee and of the AAHE Board of Directors are not eligible to receive AAHE awards while they are serving in said roles.
  
• An individual or organization (system, corporation, association, agency, and others) outside the health education profession, making a significant contribution to health education in any form, i.e., media development, legislation, creative arts (such as writing, acting, research, etc.), and funding. The person or organization should have aided in the development and promotion of health education.
  
• Must have made national impact on the advancement of health education.
  
• A commercial organization may be nominated only for a unique contribution to the profession over and above their normal realm of activity.
  

Past Recipients:

A.I.T./"Inside-Out" American Cancer Society American Dental Association American Heart Association American Lung Association American Red Cross Stephen Barrett Blue Cross Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Adolescent School Health Comprehensive Health Education Foundation/Seattle/Washington John J. Creedon/President/Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. Curriculum Innovations Dairy Council of California Division of Health Education/Centers for Disease Control Educational Development Center Joycelyn Elders/former Surgeon General ETR Associates Inc.

IOX Assessment Associates Inc. KCET-TV/Los Angeles/California Kellogg Foundation J. Michael McGinnis/Deputy Asst./Secretary for Health/U.S.D.H.H.S. Hon. Lloyd Meeds/U.S. Congressman Metropolitan Life National Dairy Council National P.T.A. David Satcher Schering Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. Tampax Kate Taylor and the production of "DeGrassi High" Texas Association of School Administrators The Public Citizen Health Research Group 3 M Company

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