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MLA PH/HA Research Award

Medical Library Association Public Health/Health Administration Caucus - 2025 Research Award

The Public Health/Health Administration Caucus (PH/HA) offers a research award for the best paper in the field of public health or health administration librarianship published within the previous three years (2022-2025). Applicants can submit individual or collaborative projects. The total amount of the award is $300. 
 

Eligibility: 

At least one member of the team must be a member of the Medical Library Association. This person should be the one submitting the paperwork. Membership in PH/HA is preferred but not required.
 

Deadline and Timeline: 

All applications for the PH/HA research award are due by March 3, 2025. 

If the committee selects a winner for the award, it will be presented during the annual MLA meeting, and/or mailed afterwards if necessary. 
 

Criteria:

The research committee will award the paper that best meets the following criteria:

  • Well-defined research question(s) and hypothesis. 
  • Research methodology described in sufficient detail to be replicated by   others. 
  • Appropriate methodology for answering the question and testing the hypothesis. 
  • Appropriate data collection and analysis. 
  • Data analysis supports the conclusion. 
  • Conclusions are placed within a relevant research context. 
  • The completed project has potential to stimulate further research in this field, or to impact current practices in public health/health administration librarianship. 


Selection Procedures: 

A committee of five (5) volunteers from the Public Health/Health Administration Section, selected for their experience in research, evaluates all applications. The committee will also search the literature for relevant nominee papers and contact the authors to recommend submitting, but we will only review self- or peer-nominated applications.
 

Submission Procedure: 

Please send all parts of the application (the following form, with statement and copy of manuscript) bundled electronically, as one PDF file to Rachel Hinrichs, Chair, PH/HA Research Committee, at rhinrich@iu.edu with the subject “PH/HA Research Award Application.”

 

Deadline: Application must be sent electronically by the end of day March 3, 2025. Download application below.

View previous award winners below: