USAID Population Official Receives Shultz Award
WASHINGTON, DC – Dr. James D. Shelton of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health (GH) has received the prestigious Carl S. Shultz Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Public Health Association (APHA). The award honors individuals who have made an outstanding lifetime contribution to the field of population and reproductive health (RH). Dr. Shelton, currently Science Advisor in the GH Bureau, has been with USAID for more than two decades and has also served with the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At present, Dr. Shelton oversees USAID’s Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Initiative.
Dr. Shelton was one of two Shultz Award recipients announced November 5, 2007, at the Community Meeting and Awards Presentation of APHA’s Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (PFPRH) Section during the Association’s annual meeting in Washington. Dr. Beverly Winikoff, professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and president of the research and technical assistance organization Gynuity Health Projects, also received the Shultz Award.
Dr. Carl S. Shultz was a pediatrician and public servant who was instrumental in creating and implementing the federal Title X family planning program. He proposed the establishment of an award at the first meeting of the PFPRH Section in 1976, and it was named in his honor after his death. Recipients of the Shultz Award now make up an honor roll of contributors in the field of RH in the United States and around the world.
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