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Health Policy Institute of Ohio
(614) 224-4950

Submissions for the 2007 Ohio Health Policy Research Awards Now Being Accepted

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio is now accepting submissions from faculty, students, and non-academic practitioners for the 2007 Health Policy Institute of Ohio Awards for Applied Health Policy Research. The awards honor outstanding applied policy research in Ohio.

Article submissions are encouraged from a broad scope of health policy subdisciplines such as health care access, health care administration, community health, health education, public health, health promotion, environmental health, behavioral health, mental health, applied epidemiology, and allied health. The awards scoring process will prioritize health topics that emphasize community and population-based policy recommendations.

The award amounts for 2007 are set as follows:

1. $5,000 for university faculty with a $2,000 departmental award for the winning faculty category article;
2. $2,000 for university faculty with a $500 departmental award for the second place faculty category article;
3. $1,000 to a student for the best student submission; and
4. $2,000 to a non-academic practitioner for the best practitioner submission.

The deadline for submission to the 2007 Health Policy Institute of Ohio Awards for Applied Health Policy Research is October 26, 2007. Articles are to be submitted to Timothy R. Sahr, Director of Research, Health Policy Institute of Ohio, 37 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, or can be e-mailed in an ADOBE (*.pdf) format to .

Complete information, including the application coversheet, can be found at http://www.hpio.net/healthpolicyawards.html.

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