Health Politics and Policy Section Award Recipients
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Len Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award
Award for Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy
The David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award
Emerging Health Politics Scholar Award
Leonard S. Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award
The Len Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award, which was approved at the Section’s business meeting during the 2011 APSA annual meeting in Seattle, honors the late Len Robins, who through his presence and gentle questioning at virtually every health politics panel graciously nurtured the scholarship of both junior and senior scholars.
| 2025 | Andrea Campbell, MIT Nolan M. Kavanagh, Harvard University James Jolin, Harvard “Medicaid Made me a Democrat: The Effect of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Partisan Identification.” |
| 2024 | Alex Barnard, New York University and Nick Rekenthaler, New York University “Suffering, Addicted, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California.” |
| 2023 | Didi Kuo, Stanford University “State Capacity and Public Health: California and COVID-19” |
| 2023 | Andrew Kelly, California State University, East Bay “State Capacity and Public Health: California and COVID-19” |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Katie Zuber, John Jay College of Criminal Justice – CUNY “Trickle-Down Burdens: The Effect of Provider Burden on Clients’ Experience” |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Patricia Strach, University of Albany, SUNY “Trickle-Down Burdens: The Effect of Provider Burden on Clients’ Experience” |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) “Trickle-Down Burdens: The Effect of Provider Burden on Clients’ Experience” |
| 2022 | Guillermo Toral, Vanderbilt University “Turnover: How Electoral Accountability Disrupts the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery” |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Abigail Fisher Williamson, Trinity College “Whose Health Deserves Investment? A Crowdfunding Conjoint Experiment. ” |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Sarah S. Willen, University of Minnesota “Whose Health Deserves Investment? A Crowdfunding Conjoint Experiment. ” |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Kristin K. Lunz Trujillo, University of Connecticut “Whose Health Deserves Investment? A Crowdfunding Conjoint Experiment. ” |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Colleen C. Walsh, Cleveland State University “Whose Health Deserves Investment? A Crowdfunding Conjoint Experiment. ” |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Cesar Vargas Nunez, Stanford University “Feeling Ill: The Infectious Effect of Perspective-taking On Attitudes Toward Healthcare Access for Undocumented Immigrants.” |
| 2021 | Kristin Lunz Trujillo, University of Minnesota “How Internet Access Drives Global Vaccine Skepticism.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research. |
| 2021 | Matthew Motta, Oklahoma State University “How Internet Access Drives Global Vaccine Skepticism.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research. |
| 2020 | Andrew S. Kelly, California State University, East Bay “Private Power in Public Programs: Medicare, Medicaid, and the Structural Power of Private Insurance.” |
| 2019 | Steven Sylvester, Utah Valley University “Just Say No? Attribution Theory and Public Attitudes About the Opioid Epidemic.” |
| 2019 | Simon Haeder, West Virginia University “Just Say No? Attribution Theory and Public Attitudes About the Opioid Epidemic.” |
| 2019 | Timothy Callaghan, Texas A&M University “Just Say No? Attribution Theory and Public Attitudes About the Opioid Epidemic.” |
| 2018 | Isabel Perera, University of Pennsylvania “Deinstitutionalization Revisited: The Role of Public Psychiatrists in France and The United States.” |
| 2017 | Holly Jarman, 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
The Award for Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy is awarded to an individual who has been working to improve health and the healthcare system by actively engaging in politics and policy making.
| 2025 | Eric Patashnik, Brown University |
| 2024 | Jamila Michener, Cornell University |
| 2024 | Harold Pollack, University of Chicago |
| 2023 | Holly Jarman, University of Michigan |
| 2022 | Pamela Herd, Georgetown Unviersity |
| 2021 | Timothy S. Jost, Washington and Lee University |
| 2020 | Patricia Strach, University at Albany, State University of New York, and Rockefeller Institute of Government |
| 2020 | Katie Zuber, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and Rockefeller Institute of Government |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) Mexico City, Mexico, and Rockefeller Institute of Government. |
| 2019 | Sara Rosenbaum, The George Washington University |
| 2018 | John McDonough, Harvard University |
| 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 |
The David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award
| 2025 | Ashley Fox, University of Albany-SUNY |
| 2025 | Phillip Rocco, Marquette University |
| 2023 | Timothy Callaghan, Boston University |
| 2023 | Simon Haeder, Texas A&M University |
| 2022 | Sarah Gollust, University of Minnesota |
| 2022 | Jamila Michener, Cornell University |
Emerging Health Politics Scholar Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize a junior scholar (pre-tenure or equivalent) who is emerging as a leader in the field of health politics through their teaching, research, and service.
| 2024 | Charley Willison, Cornell University |
Career Achievement Award
he Career Achievement Award is given to a senior scholar who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the student of health politics and policy.
| 2025 | Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles |