This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of the OEHS profession through demonstrated practical application of scientific knowledge, advances in the practice of Total Worker Health®, expansion of the profession through active collaboration via alliances and partnerships, and the creation of tools applicable beyond the OEHS profession.
- Nominees must be an AIHA member.
Previous Award Recipients
- 2024: Steven Jahn MBA, CIH, FAIHA (Nominated by: Celia A. Booth; William J. Mills, Jr.; Emanuele Cauda; John A. Engel; Peter Ficzycz; Robert E. Henderson; James D. McGlothlin)
- 2023: Kathryn A. Makos, MPH, CIH (Nominated by Celia A. Booth)
- 2022: Howard B. Spielman, CIH, CSP, SMS, REHS (ret.), FAIHA (Nominated by Joel I. Berman, Kathy S. Jones; and Mary Anne Messiha)
- 2021: Alan Leibowitz, CIH, CSP, FAIHA (Nominated by Celia A. Booth on behalf of the AIHA Leadership and Management Committee)
- 2020: Harry J. Beaulieu, PhD, CIH, CSP, FAIHA (Nominated by Michael Amster)
- 2019: Noah S. Seixas, PhD, CIH (Nominated by Martin A. Cohen and Marissa Baker)
- 2018: Mark R. Stenzel, CIH, FAIHA (Nominated by Susan Arnold and Gurumurthy Ramachandran)
- 2017: Steve M. Hays, PE, CIH, FACEC, QEP, FAIHA (Nominated by Kenneth S. Garza)
- 2016: Frederick W. Boelter, CIH, PE, BCEE, FAIHA (Nominated by G. Scott Dotson)
- 2015: Andre Dufresne, PhD, CIH (Nominated by Maximilien Debia; Guillaume Lachapelle; and Daniel Drolet
- 2014: Michael K. Harris, PhD, CIH, FAIHA (Nominated by Lindsay E. Booher)
- 2013: Lindsay E. Booher, CIH, CSP, FAIHA (Nominated by Allan K. Fleeger)
- 2012: Franklin Mirer, PhD, CIH, FAIHA
- 2011: Roy M. Buchan, DrPH, CIH
- 2010: Neil J. Zimmerman, PhD, PE, CIH, FAIHA
- 2009: William C. Hinds, ScD, CIH, FAIHA
- 2008: James H. Vincent, PhD, DSc, FRSC
- 2007: Howard J. Cohen, PhD, CIH, FAIHA
- 2006: Steven P. Levine, PhD, CIH
- 2005: S. Z. Mansdorf, PhD, CIH, CSP, QEP, FAIHA
- 2004: D. Jeff Burton, CIH (to 2012), PE, FAIHA
- 2003: Harry J. Ettinger, MS, CIH, PE, FAIHA
- 2002: Jack E. Peterson, PhD, CIH (ret.)
- 2001: Dave Verma, PhD, CIH, PE, ROH
- 2000: Jeffrey S. Lee, PhD, CIH (posthumously)
- 1999: Edward R. Hermann, PhD, CE, CIH (ret.)
- 1998: Henry B. Lick, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, ROH
- 1997: Jeremiah R. Lynch, CIH, CSP
- 1996: William A. Burgess, CIH (ret.)
- 1995: Knowlton J. Caplan
- 1994: Robert L. Harris, PhD, CIH
- 1993: David M. Trayer, CIH (ret.)
- 1992: Samuel Elkin, PhD, CIH (ret.)
- 1991: Morton Lippman, PhD
- 1990: Gene X. Kortsha, CIH (ret.), CSP (ret.)
- 1989: John A. Pendergrass, CIH, PE, FAIHA
- 1988: Lewis J. Cralley, PhD, CIH (ret.)
- 1987: Dohrman H. Byers, CIH (ret.)
- 1986: Morton Corn, PhD, CSP, FAIH
- 1985: Ralph G. Smith, PhD, CIH
- 1984: David A. Fraser, ScD
- 1983: Melvin W. First, ScD
- 1982: Edward J. Baier, CIH (ret.), CSP, CHMM
- 1981: Kenneth W. Nelson, CIH (ret.)
- 1980: Paul D. Halley, CIH (ret.)
- 1979: Verald K. Rowe, PhD, CIH (ret.)
- 1978: David W. Fassett, MD
- 1977: John A. Zapp, PhD
- 1976: Clyde M. Berry, PhD, CIH (ret.)
- 1975: William B. Deichmann, PhD, MD (Hon.) and Robert A. Kehoe, MD
- 1974: Mary O. Amdur, PhD
- 1973: George D. Clayton
- 1972Harry F. Schulte
- 1971: Lester V. Cralley, PhD
- 1970: Edgar C. Barnes
- 1969: Herbert E. Stokinger, PhD
- 1968: Willis G. Hazard
- 1967: Hervey B. Elkins, PhD
- 1966: Don D. Irish, PhD
- 1965: Charles R. Williams, PhD
- 1964: Anna M. Baetjer, ScD
- 1963: Allen D. Brandt, ScD
- 1962: Herbert T. Walworth
- 1962: Robert A. Kehoe, MD
- 1961: Manfred Bowditch (Posthumously) and William G. Fredrick, ScD
- 1960: Gordon C. Harrold, PhD
- 1959: No Award Given
- 1958: John J. Bloomfield
- 1957: Helmuth H. Schrenk, PhD
- 1956: Henry F. Smyth, Jr., PhD
- 1955: James H. Sterner, MD
- 1954: Frank A. Patty
- 1953: Warren A. Cook
- 1952: Leonard Greenburg, MD
- 1951: Theodore F. Hatch, ScD
- 1950: Philip Drinker, ScD
- 1948: Alice Hamilton, MD
- 1947: William P. Yant, ScD
- 1944: Leroy U. Gardner, MD