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| Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin |
The award was established in cooperation with The Indiana Public Health Foundation, Inc. by Mary F. Hulman and inaugurated on October 1, 1985 as Indiana's premiere health award in recognition of Indiana citizens and organizations whose efforts have resulted in a significant improvement to the human race.
The purpose of the awards is to create a positive image of health and to provide a forum through which a greater awareness of the contributions of health leaders is made known.
Dr. Sherwood-Laughlin is being recognized for her efforts involving increased public health awareness of HIV/AIDS and sexuality education in the public schools. Specifically, she’s being recognized for helping to design sexuality/HIV prevention workshops which have provided middle and high school students, and their teachers, with valuable health instruction that incorporates active learning and skill-building activities.
“Her work has enabled students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and specific risk-reduction behaviors that they can employ to protect themselves from negative health consequences of sexual and drug use behavior that could put them at risk for contracting HIV and other STIs,” said School of Public Health-Bloomington Dean Mohammad Torabi.
