The Lawrence W. Green Paper of the Year recognizes one paper published in Health Education & Behavior during the preceding year that is judged by the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editorial Board of the journal as exemplifying the highest level of scholarship and making a singularly important contribution to the literature of the field. The award carries a $1,000 cash prize and is presented each year at the Society for Public Health Education Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony Gala.

 

The paper is named for Lawrence W. Green (1940- ), whose long and distinguished career has included teaching posts on the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley (where he received his MPH and DrPH degrees), Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, University of Texas at Houston, University of British Columbia, and the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Green also served as the first director of the U.S. Office of Health Information, Health Promotion, and Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and later became a vice president and director of the National Health Promotion Program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He later served as Distinguished Fellow/Visiting Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he was director of the CDC-World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Global Tobacco Control and the Office of Science & Extramural Research of the CDC Public Health Practice Program Office. The author of a voluminous corpus of published scholarship, he is renowned for his PRECEDE-PROCEED Model, which has been used throughout the world to guide health program intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. Dr. Green is a past president and distinguished fellow the Society for Public Health Education and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He served in editorial capacities for both of Health Education & Behavior’s prior titles as editor of Health Education Monographs from 1973 to 1975 and as an Editorial Board member of Health Education Quarterly from 1982 to 1984. Since 1988, Dr. Green has remained an insightful and guiding member of the journal’s Advisory Board of Editors Emeriti. 

 

The fund that supports the Paper of the Year Award was established in 1995 through a generous gift from SAGE Publications. The award was renamed the Lawrence W. Green Paper of the Year Award by the Board of Trustees of the Society for Public Health Education in 2004 to honor Dr. Green’s enduring contributions to the scholarship of health education and to the Society.

 

-John Allegrante, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Health Education and Behavior

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For more information: https://www.sophe.org/journals/journal-awards/ 

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Previous Awardees:

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• 2021:  LATENT//Missing: On Missing Values, Narrative Power, and Data Politics in Discourse of COVID – 1.

• 2020: Exploring the Potential of Participatory Theatre to Reduce Stigma and Promote Health Equity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People in Swaziland and Lesotho.

• 2019: Perspectives of Community Co – Researchers About Group Dynamics and Equitable Partnership Within a Community–Academic Research Team.

• 2018: Identifying Synergies in Multilevel Interventions: The Convergence Strategy. Health Education & Behavior

• 2017:  From Foucault to Freire Though Facebook: Toward and Integrated Theory of mHealth. Health Education & Behavior

• 2016: "“The Collective Impact Model and Its Potential for Health Promotion: Overview and Case Study of a Healthy Retail Initiative in San Francisco"

• 2015: "Developing Behavioral Theory With the Systematic Integration of Community Social Capital Concepts"

• 2014: "On Measuring Community Participation in Research"

• 2013: "The Extended Parallel Process Model: Illuminating the Gaps in Research"

• 2012: "Social Ecological Approaches to Individuals and Their Contexts : Twenty Years of Health Education and Behavior Health Promotion Interventions"

• 2011: "Direct and Mediated Effects of Two Theoretically Based Interventions to Increase Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables in the Healthy Body Healthy Spirit Trial"

• 2010: "Facilitators, Challenges, and Collaborative Activities in Faith and Health Partnerships to Address Health Disparities"

• 2009: "Healthy Youth Places: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Determine the Effectiveness of Facilitating Adult and Youth Leaders to Promote Physical Activity and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Middle Schools"

• 2008: "Diffusion of Clean Indoor Air Ordinances in the Southwestern United States"

• 2007: "The Myth of Peer Influence in Adolescent Smoking Initiation"

• 2006: "Nutrition Education Among Low-Income Older Adults: A Randomized Intervention Trial in Congregate Nutrition Sites"

• 2005: "Modeling Psychological Empowerment Among Youth Involved in Local Tobacco Control Efforts"

• 2004: "How all Stars Works: An Examination of Program Effects on Mediating Variables"

• 2003: "Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Mammography Promotion by Volunteers in Rural Communities"

• 2002: "Formative Research to Inform Intervention Development for Diabetes Prevention in the Republic of the Marshall Islands"

• 2001: "Readiness to Change: Newspaper Coverage of Tobacco Farming and Diversification"

• 2000: "Coming Up in the Age of Boogie Down: The Role of Violence in the Lives of Adolescents in the South Bronx"

• 1999: "Personal Responsibility for Health? A Review of the Arguments and the Evidence at Century±s End"

• 1998: "Physical Activity and Minority Women: A Qualitative Study"

• 1997: "Using Mass Media to Prevent Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescent Girls"

• 1996: "Community Mobilization to Reduce Point-of-Purchase Advertising of Tobacco Products"

• 1995: "Person and environment in HIV risk behavior change between adolescence and young adulthood" 

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