Died: David Sencer, 86, MD, former Director of the CDC and the New York City Health Department, on May 2, 201. He was lauded as a “giant of public health” by current CDC Director Thomas Frieden who noted Sencer’s contributions to the eradication of smallpox and the creation of the Emory School of Public Health.

Awardee: Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President of the Institute of Medicine, for the $15,000 Frank Calderone Prize in Public Health given by Columbia University's school of Public Health for a "transformational contribution in the field of public health".  The prize will be presented in October 2011.

Appointed: Jill Norris, PhD, MPH, professor of epidemiology, s new chair f the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health.  Dr. Norris was section head of the Epidemiology and Community Health Section in the former Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at Colorado.

Awardee: Margaret Becklake, McGill University epidemiologist, for the Ordre du Quebec, the province's most prestigious honor, on June 15 in Quebec City.  Becklake received the highest honor Grand Officer in the Ordre.

Awardee: Pamela Rist, MSc, Harvard School of Public Health, for the Abraham Lilienfeld Student Prize Paper in General Epidemiology at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for her work on "Migraine and Functional Outcome From Ischemic Cerebral Events in Women" published in Circulation in 2010.

Awardee: Shirley Wang, MS, PhD, Brown University, for the Reuel Stallones Student Prize Paper in Epidemiology Mothods at teh Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for her work, "Future-cases as present controls to adjust for exposure-trend bias in case-only studies".

Awardee: Maria Argos, Columbia University, for the Carol Buck Student Prize Paper in International Health at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for her work "Arsenic exposure from drinking water, and all cause and chronic disease mortalities in Bangladesh (HEALS): a prospective study" published in Lancet in 2010.

Awardee: NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics Training Program, for the Alexander Langmuir award at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for Training Program Excellence and Innovation.

Awardee: Margaret Spitz, MD, MPH, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Abraham Lilienfeld Award fro Overall Excellence in Epidemiology including teaching, research, and service.

Awardee: Stephen Walter, PhD, McMaster University, for the Bernard Goldberg award for Excellence in Methods Development and Application at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal.

Awardee: John Pierce, PhD, University of California Sand Diego Moores Cancer Center, at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Harold Dorn Award for Translation of Epidemiologic Evidence Into Public Health Policy and Practice with measurable impact.

Awardee: Noel Weiss, MD, DrPH, University of Washington, at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Alfred S. Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring in Epidemiology.

Awardee: Marc Lipsitch, Harvard School of Public Health, at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Best Manuscript published in Epidemiology in 2010, aka the Kenneth Rothman Prize.  His paper is entitled "Negative controls: A tool for detecting confounding and bias in observational studies.  Co-authors were Eric Tchetgen and Ted Cohen.

Awardee: Tuula Oksanen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Best Manuscript published in Annals of Epidemiology in 2010.  The paper is entitled "Self-Report as an Indicator of Incident Disease" with co-authors Mika Kivimaki, Jaana Pentti, Marianna Virtanen, Timo Klaukka, and Jussi Vahtera.

Awardee: Jack Siemiatycki, PhD, University of Montreal, at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Geoffrey Howe Distinguished Contributions award.

Awardee: Colin Soskolne, PhD, University of Alberta, at the Congress of Epidemiology in Montreal for the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Distinguished Service Award.