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