Past Honors and Awards Winners | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health

Past Department Honors and Awards Winners

Departmental Discretionary Award

2019: Ben Ackerman (outstanding student service)
2010: Vidya Venugopal (outstanding distinction in teaching)
2005: Weiwei Wang (outstanding achievement on the second-year exam)
2003: Jing Ning (outstanding achievement on the first-year exam)

The Glaxo Smithkline Award

2011: Yifei Sun
2010: Haochang Shou
2009: Shanshan Li
2008: Russell Shinohara
2007: Simina Boca
2006: Marco Carone
2005: Gary Chan
2004: Siobhan Sutcliffe
2003: Yun Lu
2002: Jennifer Ryea, Yue Yin
2001: Brian Egleston
2000: Weimin Chen

The Helen Abbey Award

2023: Haley Grant and Claire Heffernan
2022: Emily Scott
2021: Sophie Berube, Marta Karas
2020: Jacob Fiksel
2019: Bonnie Smith
2018: Jack Fu
2017: Leslie Myint
2016: Prasad Patil
2015: Francis Abreu
2014: Jenna Krall
2013: Kirsten Lum, Therri Usher, George Wu
2012: Alyssa Frazee, Hilary Parker
2011: Jeffrey Goldsmith, Daniel Obeng, Bruce Swihart
2010: Matthew McCall
2009: Nicholas Reich
2008: Sandrah Eckel
2007: Ming-Wen An, Robert Scharpf
2006: Kim Fai Kenny Shum
2005: Kathryn Ziegler
2004: Michelle Shardell
2003: Hongfei Guo, Nikhil Gupte
2002: Wesley Eddings
2001: Michael Griswold
2000: Natalie Blades
1999: Felicity Boyd, Thomas Travison
1998: Elizabeth Garrett
1997: Jeffrey Blume
1996: Laura Cramer
1995: Sterling Hilton

The Jane and Steve Dykacz Award

2024: Dongliang Zhang
2023: Carly Lupton Brantner
2022: Zitong Wang
2021: Erjia Cui
2020: Athena Chen
2019: Lamar Hunt
2018: Youjin Lee
2017: Jack Fu
2016: Prasad Patil and Elizabeth Sweeney
2015: Yifei Sun
2014: Lei Huang and Elizabeth Sweeney
2013: Jiawei Bai
2012: Russell (Taki) Shinohara
2010: Jeffrey Goldsmith
2008: Wenyi Wang
2006: Brian Egleston
2004: Michelle Shardell

The June B. Culley Award

2023: Carly Lupton Brantner
2022: Ruzhang Zhao
2021: Erija Cui
2020: Athena Chen
2019: Bonnie Smith
2018: Zhicheng (Jason) Ji
2017: Junrui Di
2016: Yu Du, Claire Ruberman
2015: Jean-Philippe Fortin
2014: Aaron Fisher
2013: Juemin Yang
2012: Yingying Wei, Zhenke Wu
2011: Shanshan Li
2010: Russell Shinohara
2009: Haley Hedlin, Bruce Swihart
2008: Marco Carone
2006: Aristide Achy-Brou
2005: Wenyi Wang
2004: Elizabeth Johnson
2003: Brian Egleston

The Kocherlakota Award

2023: Zhirui Fu
2022: Mingyuan Li & Shengtao Wang
2021: Chang Chen & Yuehan (Jenny) Zhang
2020: Wanlu Chen
2019: Zebin Wang
2018: Luqin Gan and Xinye Li
2017: Hilary Robbins
2016: Boyang Zhang and Guoqing Wang
2015: Weixiang Fang
2014: Zhicheng Ji
2013: Yao Lu, Shilu Zhang
2012: Bing He
2011: Jiehuan Sun
2010: Qingfeng Li

The Louis I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award

2024: Ruzhang Zhao (Advisor: Hongkai Ji; Co Adviser: Nilanjan Chatterjee) and Fangyu Liu (Advisor: Jennifer Schrack; Co-Advisor: John Jackson)
2023: Jingning Zhang (Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee) and Nel Jason Haw (Advisor: Derek Ng; Co-Advisor: Catherine Lesko)
2022: Jiyang Wen (Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang; Co-Advisor: Chen Hu ) and Emma Nichols (Advisor: Alden Gross; Co-Advisor: Jennifer Deal)
2021: Marta Karas (Advisor: Ciprian Crainiceanu; Co-Advisor: Jacek Urbanek) and Forrest Jones (Advisor: Justin Lessler; Co-Advisor: Andrew Azman)
2020: Sophie Berube (Advisor: Tom Louis) and Dylan Duchen (Advisor: Priya Duggal)
2019: Haoyu Zhang (Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee; Co-Advisor: Ni Zhao) and Pei-Lun (Perry) Luo (Advisor: Jennifer Schrack; Co-Advisor: Alden Gross)
2018: Lamar Hunt (Advisor: Daniel Scharfstein); Esther Kim ( Dr. Kunihiro Matsushita)
2017: Junrui Di (Advisor: Vadim Zipunnikov); Talia Quandelacy (Advisor: Justin Lessler)
2016: Youjin Lee (Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang; Co-Advisor: Elizabeth Ogburn); Shan Andrews (Advisor: Christine Ladd-Acosta)
2015: Yibing (Oliver) Chen (Advisor: Martin Lindquist); Kathryn Risher (Advisor: Shruti Mehta)
2014: Jiawei Bai (Advisor: Vadim Zipunnikov); Kelly Searle (Advisor: William Moss)
2013: Jenna Krall (Advisor: Roger Peng); Andrew Azman (Advisor: Justin Lessler)
2012: Kirsten Lum (Advisor: Tom Louis); Henrik Salje (Advisor: Derek Cummings)
2011: Jennifer Feder Bobb (Advisor: Roger Peng); Andrew Jaffe (Advisor: M. Daniele Fallin)
2010: Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer (Advisor: Derek Cummings); Russell Shinohara (Advisor: Constantine Frangakis; Co-Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang)
2009: Sandrah Eckel (Advisor: Thomas Louis); Maria Tellez-Plaza (Advisor: Ana Navas-Acien)
2008: Marco Carone (Advisor: Daniel Scharfstein); Bryan James (Advisor: Thomas Glass) and Bruce Swihart (Advisor: Brian Caffo)
2007: Susan Hutfless (Advisor: Christopher Cox); Sheng Luo (Advisor: Ciprian Crainiceanu)
2006: Kelly Benke (Advisor: M. Daniele Fallin); Yun Lu (Advisor: Scott Zeger) and J. Morel Symons (Advisor: Alyson Geyh)
2005: Alison Gump (Advisor: Janet Holbrook) and Xiaojun You (Advisor: Ron Brookmeyer)
2004: Sonja Berndt (Advisors: Kathy Helzlsouer and M. Daniele Fallin) and Sorina Eftim (Advisor: Francesca Dominici)
2003: Betty Doan (Advisor: Yin Yao); Laura Podewils (Advisor: Eliseo Guallar) and Ravi Varadhan (Advisor: Charles Rohde)
2002: Jean-Paul Chretien (Advisor: Josef Coresh); Nikhil Gupte (Advisor: Ron Brookmeyer)
2001: Felicity Boyd (Advisor: Marie Diener-West)

The Margaret Merrell Award

2023-24: Claire Heffernan (Adviser: Abhi Datta; Co-Adviser: Roger Peng)
2022-23: Bohao Tang (Adviser: Brian Caffo)
2021-22: Athena Chen (Adviser: Ingo Ruczinski)
2020-21: Arkajyoti Saha (Adviser: Nilanjan Chatterjee; Co-Adviser: Abhirup Datta) and Bingkai Wang (Advisor: Michael Rosenblum; Co-Adviser: Brian Caffo)
2019-20: Guanghao Qi (Adviser: Nilanjan Chatterjee)
2018-19: Zhicheng (Jason) Ji (Adviser: Hongkai Ji)
2017-18: Yu Du (Adviser: Michael Rosenblum; Co-Advisors: Vadim Zipunnikov and Ravi Varadhan) and Youjin Lee (Adviser: Elizabeth Ogburn)
2016-17: Jiawei Bai (Adviser: Ciprian Crainiceanu; Co-Adviser: Vadim Zipunnikov) and Tianchen Qian (Advisor: Constantine Frangakis; Ce-Advisor: Michael Rosenblum)
2015-16: Aaron Fisher (Adviser: Vadim Zipunnikov; Co-Advisor: Brian Caffo) and Amanda Mejia (Adviser: Martin Lindquist; Co-Adviser: Brian Caffo)
2014-15: Fang Han (Advisor: Han Liu; Co-Adviser: Brian Caffo)
2013-14: Yingying Wei (Adviser: Hongkai Ji)
2012-13: Shanshan Li (Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang; Co-Adviser: Brian Caffo)
2011-12: Jeff Goldsmith (Adviser: Ciprian Crainiceanu; Co-Adviser: Brian Caffo) and Russell Shinohara (Advisor: Constantine Frangakis; Co-Adviser: Mei-Cheng Wang)
2011: Simina Boca (Adviser: Giovanni Parmigiani; Co-Adviser: Jeffrey Leek)
2010: Yong Chen (Adviser: Kung-Yee Liang; Co-Advisor: Charles Rohde) and Hao Wu (Adviser: Rafael Irizarry; Co-Advisor: Hongkai Ji)
2009: Chongzhi Di (Adviser: Kung-Yee Liang; Co-Adviser: Ciprian Crainiceanu)
2008: Gary Chan (Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang) and Yue Yin (Adviser: Thomas Louis)
2007: Robert Scharpf (Adviser: Giovanni Parmigiani; Co-Adviser: Ingo Ruczinski)
2006: Hormuzd Katki (Adviser: Giovanni Parmigiani)
2005: Zhijin Wu (Adviser: Rafael Irizarry)
2004: Weimin Chen (Adviser: Karl Broman) and Ravi Varadhan (Adviser: Constantine Frangakis)
2003: Natalie Blades (Adviser: Giovanni Parmigiani)
2002: Chiung-Yu Huang (Adviser: Mei-Cheng Wang) and Thomas Travison (Adviser: Ron Brookmeyer)
2000: Guan-Hua Huang (Adviser: Karen Bandeen-Roche) and Diana Miglioretti (Adviser: Scott Zeger)
1999: Yingqing Chen (Adviser: Mei-Cheng Wang)
1998: Wenzheng Huang (Adviser: Richard Royall)
1997: Sarah Gray (Adviser: Ron Brookmeyer)
1996: Paul Rathouz (Adviser: Kung-Yee Liang)
1995: Patrick Heagerty (Adviser: Scott Zeger)

PhD Examination Award

2022: Jiuyao Lu
2021: Yuzheng Dun
2020: Claire Heffernan
2019: Jingning Zhang
2018: Bohao Tang
2017: Weixiang Fang and Arkajyoti Saha
2016: Guanghao Qi
2015: Lu Li, Sheng Xu
2014: Yu Du
2013: Jean-Philippe Fortin
2012: Lei Huang
2011: Yifei Sun
2010: Haochang Shou
2009: Shanshan Li
2008: Russell Shinohara
2007: Simina Boca
2006: Marco Carone
2005: Gary Chan
2004: Siobhan Sutcliffe
2003: Yun Lu, Jing Ning