NTU’s College of Public Health Wins 2020 ASPPH Harrison C. Spencer Award

NTU’s College of Public Health receives 2020 ASPPH Harrison
C. Spencer Award for Outstanding Community Service. 

NTU’s College of Public Health and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)’s College of Public Health jointly won the 2020 ASPPH Harrison C. Spencer Award for Outstanding Community Service. The award was announced by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) on their official website.

Aiming to acknowledge public health colleges and programs which have made exceptional contributions to sustainable community development, the award honors the legacy of the late Dr. Harrison Spencer who served as the president and CEO of ASPPH. Awardees are granted prize money for further investment in collaboration with their community partners. NTU’s College of Public Health had the pleasure of joining the ranks with outstanding awardees from the past, including Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health in 2018 and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2019.

NTU’s College of Public Health has partnered with Lienchiang County Government and Changhua County Government for the past two decades in offering community-based integrated public health service (CIPHS). The service makes health screening for community residents and training for local public health professionals available and has had exceptional results. The program has established a model of resource sharing and collaboration between academia and the local community for which it won this recognition from ASPPH which honored the college as the first winner located outside the United States.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ASPPH Annual Meeting was held online in 2020. As a result, the award luncheon on the meeting agenda was postponed to 2021, as well. In the meantime, a video made by the College of Public Health on its service in Changhua and Matsu has been made available on the ASPPH website, allowing the world to witness Taiwan’s incredible achievements in the field of public health.