Secretary's Award for Innovation in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (Second Place)
The Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention competition encourages new ideas in health promotion and disease prevention among students of the health professions across the country. The competition is an opportunity for students enrolled in schools of the health professions to enter papers describing their innovative health promotion or disease prevention projects for cash awards consideration. These projects may be ones that are proposed and/or implemented to meet certain course requirements or developed as part of service learning or other academic experiences.
The paper submitted to the 2004-2005 Secretary's Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, entitled "University of Maryland's Interdisciplinary Framework for Prevention and Intervention in Maternal and Child Health" won second place in the interdisciplinary category. Over 120 papers were submitted for consideration. The winning students from UMB were: Michelle Clark, Amani Ahmed, Melissa Kline, Mary LaBella, Kate Gardes, and Anna Falkenstern. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions sponsor this annual competition. 
Michelle Clark | 
Amani Ahmed | 
Melissa Kline | 
Mary LaBella | 
Kate Gardes | 
Anna Falkenstern |
Projects were asked to support "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2010 Objectives for Improving Health" and "Steps to a Healthier US" initiatives, a comprehensive set of national health objectives for the first initiatives, a comprehensive set of national health objectives for the first decade of the 21st century. The Healthy People 2010 initiative is dedicated to the idea that every person in every community across the country have equal access to comprehensive, culturally competent, community-based health care systems committed to serving the needs of the individual and promoting community health. The Healthy People 2010 initiative provides a framework on which states and communities can build disease prevention and health promotion plans designed to meet their unique needs. Healthy People 2010 Goals Increase Quality and Years of Healthy Life Eliminate Health Disparities
Additional Resources For more information about Healthy People 2010 or to access Healthy People 2010 documents online visit: http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/ or call 800-367-4725. See Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health and Healthy People in Healthy Communities http://www.HealthierUS.gov is a source of credible, accurate is a source of credible, accurate information to help Americans choose to live healthier lives. top | 
