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Walter S. Mangold Award

• Mangold Award Winners

• Mangold Award Rating Sheet

Walter F. Snyder Award
A. Harry Bliss Editor's Award
Certificates of Merit
Sabbatical Exchange Award

• 2000 Sabbatical Exchange Award Winner

• 2006 Sabbatical Exchange Award Winner

Crumbine Award

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NEHA Excellence in Sustainability Award

Walter S. Mangold Award

The National Environmental Health Association’s highest honor, the Walter S. Mangold Award, is named for an innovative forward thinker, a man of action who became an inspiration to thousands of environmental health professionals who followed him into the field. The late Walter S. Mangold was a sanitarian in California at a time when environmental health was just developing into a profession, with its own educational requirements and performance standards. Mangold also was instrumental in the founding of NEHA’s predecessor, the National Association of Sanitarians, in California.

He later became Professor of Public Health at the University of California School of Public Health.

The Mangold Award was established in 1955, and the first award was presented to Mangold in 1956. Now, almost 50 years later, the Mangold Award continues to recognize outstanding contributions to the preservation of the environment by the environmental health professional. By honoring those who exemplify quality and service to mankind in environmental health, the award also recognizes the many in the profession who labor daily without recognition, which is the nature of the environmental health professional’s work.

The Mangold award consists of a cash honorarium and a 10-inch high crystal apex attached to a black marble base on which is displayed the name of the Mangold winner. The NEHA logo is etched onto the crystal apex. This award is retained by the recipient. The NEHA office has a permanent award plaque featuring a likeness of Walter Mangold and the name of each award-winner engraved on a plate attached to the plaque.

Nominations & Evaluation

Candidates are nominated in one of two ways: 1) by the local affiliate, of which they are a member, with each affiliate limited to one candidate; or 2) by any five NEHA members who may or may not belong to an affiliate.

Five copies of the nominations must be received by March 15 at NEHA, c/o Executive Coordinator, 720 South Colorado Blvd., Suite 1000-N, Denver, CO 80246-1926. Documents received after March 15 will not be accepted for review.

According to Article IV Section I of the NEHA Bylaws, the selection process is handled by the Walter S. Mangold Award Committee, consisting of the last five recipients of the award. The senior recipient serves as committee chairperson and directs and coordinates the evaluation process, using a rating sheet, a sample of which is enclosed. In case of resignation, death or inability to serve, the replacement shall be the sixth, seventh, etc. person, until one is willing and able to serve.

Award Presentation

The award is presented at the Presidents’ Banquet at the Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition of the National Environmental Health Association.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Walter S. Mangold Award, a nominee must:

1. Be a member in good standing of the National Environmental Health Association.

2. Be actively engaged in the field of environmental health

3. Have performed professional duties in the field of environmental health above and beyond the usual employment requirements so as to elevate the professional status of the environmental health professional.

4. Exemplify the characteristics and principles for which Walter Mangold stood.

5. Not be an incumbent national officer – president, president-elect, first vice president, second vice president, immediate past president – of the association.

Certificates of Merit

Each affiliate is invited to designate one of its members to receive a Certificate of Merit from NEHA, thereby nationally recognizing one of their own for outstanding contributions to the profession of environmental health.  Recipients are announced during the AEC awards program and in the Journal of Environmental Health.

Application for Certificate of Merit

NEHA/CIEH/CIPHI Sabbatical Exchange Program

Study environmental health on the international level through NEHA's Sabbatical Exchange Program!

There are no borders to environmental health. What concerns one country concerns all others, what affects one people affects the world. That's why NEHA is proud to present an opportunity for one member to spend two-to-four-week sabbaticals in either England or Canada observing, questioning and sharing environmental health practices and information.

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A. Harry Bliss Editor’s Award

Dr. A. Harry Bliss was the Journal editor in 1969, the year this award was first presented. When he retired, the award was named after him to honor his 40 years of involvement in Journal production. NEHA often gives the annual Harry Bliss Editor’s Award to outstanding writers and columnists, but the award may also go to individuals who, through the Journal of Environmental Health, advance the cause and interests of the association.

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