Honors and Awards

Honors

2001-2005:

Dean’s List

2001-2005:

Delphic Society

2001-2005:

National Dean’s List

2001-2005:

Who’s Who in American Colleges

2002:

Bristol Meyer Squibb Fellow, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA

Spring 2003:

Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll

2004:

HHMI Fellow, Summer Molecular Biology Research Program, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 

2005:

Phi Beta Kappa

2005:

Magna Cum-Laude

2011:

Delta Omega Alpha Chapter

2007, 2011:

Summa Cum-Laude

2012:

NIH Summer Institute on Social and Behavioral Intervention Research Fellow

2014-2016:

Fordham HIV & Substance Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute Fellow

2017:

Boston University Emerging Health Care Leaders Program

2018:

Boston University Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy Fellow

 

Awards

2001-2005:

Marshall Scholarship, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster PA

2001-2005:

Harleysville National Bank Academic Scholarship

2002:

Marshall Travel and Research Grant

2005-2007:

Public Health Leadership Award, Columbia University

2010:

Student Travel Support Fund in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

2012:

Ranked among the top 5% of reviewers for Drug and Alcohol Dependence

2012-2016

NIH Loan Repayment Program Award Recipient

2014-2016

Fordham HIV & Substance Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Grant

2014:

Best Paper in the 2013 Annals of Epidemiology.

2015:

Ranked among the top 10% of reviewers for Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing

2017-2019:

Boston University Digital Health Initiative Research Award

2018:

Scholarship to attend “Introduction to Economic Evaluation” training, sponsored by the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH) (2018)

2019:

Yale Innovation to Impact Fellow

2020:

Urban Health, edited by Galea, Ettman, and Vlahov was the 2020 Prose Award Excellence Category winner (in the category of Nursing and Allied Health). The Prose Awards are awarded annually by the Association of American Publishers for “books of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study in any given year”.

2020:

International Network for Social Network Analysis Freeman Award (2020). This award is given to scholars who are under 40 years old or who have received their PhD within the past 10 years “for significant contributions to the scientific study of social structure”.

2021:

December 2021 San Diego CFAR Director's Choice Paper (Chan et al, 2021).

2022:

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty Teaching Evaluation Award for the 2021-2022 Academic year