The purpose of the Awards Committee is to solicit nominations for and supervise the administration of SER awards. The Awards Committee is also charged with developing new awards for SER, in concert with the Executive Committee, to reflect particular areas that should be rewarded by SER members.

Thomas Ahern
Awards Committee Co-Chair
Tom Ahern is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Biochemistry at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine. He is a pharmaco/molecular epidemiologist with interest in the etiology and survival of breast cancer. He earned his MPH and PhD degrees in epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health.
Contact
University of Vermont
The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine
89 Beaumont Avenue
Given Building, D317A
Burlington, VT 05405
(802) 656-3690 (voice)
02tahern@med.uvm.edu

Anjum Hajat
Awards Committee Co-Chair
Dr. Anjum Hajat is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Washington. Her current research interests are to understand the social and environmental stressors that disproportionately impact disadvantaged populations and how these stressors impact cardiovascular and other disease endpoints. One sources of stress she is particularly interested in is financial instability. Furthermore, she is interested in understanding the mechanisms by which these stressors influence health. Broadly her research has implications for understanding the underlying causes of health disparities.
Contact
Anjum Hajat, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Washington
School of Public Health
Box 357236 Seattle, WA 98195-7230
206-685-3618 | anjumh@uw.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Award Committee Members
John Acquavella
Lilliam Ambroggio
Duke Appiah
Stella Aslibekyan
Hailey Banack
Jessie Buckley
Lindsay Collin
Heather Eliassen
Elena Fuentes-Afflick
Audrey Gaskin
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William Goedel
Sean Hennessy
Jacob Kresovich
Jennifer Lund
Julia Marcus
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
Lauren McCullough
Megha Mehrotra
Mitra Mosslemi
Kristin Palmsten
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Xiao Qian
Megan Romano
Halcyon Skinner
Kumi Smith
Alisa Stephens
Jeanette Stingone
Sonja Swanson
Alexandra White
Yiyang Yuan
Yeyi Zhu