2016 Charles C. Shepard Science Awards Winners

At the 2016 Charles C. Shepard Science Awards ceremony held on June 8, 2016 the following winners were announced:

Assessment

Alexandra M. Oster, Joel O. Wertheim, Angela L. Hernandez, Marie Cheryl Bañez Ocfemia, Neeraja Saduvala, and H. Irene Hall,
Using Molecular HIV Surveillance Data to Understand Transmission Between Subpopulations in the United States
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2015;70:444–451

Data Methods and Study Design

Jacek Skarbinski, Eli Rosenberg, Gabriela Paz-Bailey, H. Irene Hall, Charles E. Rose, Abigail H. Viall, Jennifer L. Fagan, Amy Lansky, Jonathan H. Mermin
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission at Each Step of the Care Continuum in the United States
JAMA Internal Medicine 2015;175(4):588-96

Laboratory Science

David S. Campo, Guo-Liang Xia, Zoya Dimitrova, Yulin Lin, Joseph C. Forbi, Lilia Ganova-Raeva, Lili Punkova, Sumathi Ramachandran, Hong Thai, Pavel Skums, Seth Sims, Inna Rytsareva, Gilberto Vaughan, Ha-Jung Roh, Michael A. Purdy, Amanda Sue, and Yury Khudyakov
Accurate Genetic Detection of Hepatitis C Virus Transmissions in Outbreak Settings
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2015;213(6):957-965

Prevention and Control

Concepción F. Estívariz, Abhijeet Anand, Howard E. Gary Jr., Mahmudur Rahman, Jannatul Islam, Tajul I. Bari, Steven G.F. Wassilak, Susan Y. Chu, William C. Weldon, Mark A. Pallansch, James D. Heffelfinger, Stephen P. Luby, Khalequ Zaman
Immunogenicity of three doses of bivalent, trivalent, or type 1 monovalent oral poliovirus vaccines with a 2 week interval between doses in Bangladesh: an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised, controlled trial
Lancet Infectious Diseases 2015;15:898–904

Lifetime Scientific Achievement

RADM Kenneth Gabriel Castro, MD
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention