Honoring Dr. Ric Bothwell
Healthy Men, Inc. is honoring the life of Dr. Eric (Ric) Bothwell, who passed away in the Fall of 2016. Ric worked for the Indian Health Service as a commissioned officer for over 26 years. Since retiring, he had been a consultant on many initiatives and served as a public health advisor for Men’s Health Network helping to coordinate the Native Male Health Coalition: The Warrior’s Journey to Wellness
Ric was a tireless advocate for public health and passionately fought to bring attention to health disparities, particularly those facing Native American males. He will be greatly missed.
Healthy Men, Inc. has established a fund in recognition of Eric (Ric) Bothwell’s life-long work on behalf of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN), and especially his concern for the physical and mental health of AI/AN boys and men and the need to address disparities that compromise their ability to fulfill roles as fathers, husbands, providers, leaders, and contributors to their communities. The Eric D. Bothwell Fund will be dedicated to draw attention to this issue and promote scholarship to better understand the causes of disparities and effectively address them. If you are interested in making contributions to the Fund, please contact Bill Maas, chairperson of the Bothwell Award Committee, at [email protected], for instructions.
2019 Awardees
In early November 2019, at the American Public Health Association meeting in Philadelphia, Dan Duquette, Chair of the Men’s Health Caucus presented the 2019 Bothwell Awards. The purpose of the Eric D. Bothwell Memorial Awards is to promote scholarship to better understand the causes of physical and mental health disparities of American Indian and Alaska Native boys and men that compromise their ability to fulfill roles as fathers, husbands, providers, leaders, and contributors to their communities, and how to effectively address those disparities.
Charlene Apok (Iñupiaq)
The 2019 Eric D. Bothwell Student Award in American Indian and Alaska Native Men’s Health was presented to Charlene Apok (Iñupiaq), who is enrolled in the Indigenous Studies PhD Program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Charlene’s project is titled Alaska Native Men’s Voices. It will describe how individual Alaska Native men self-identify and analyze cross-cutting themes related to identity, health and well-being.
Jasmine Bullard (Lumbee)
The 2019 Eric D. Bothwell Award in American Indian and Alaska Native Men’s Health was presented to Jasmine Bullard (Lumbee). Jasmine is Quality Research Specialist and Project Manager in the Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology Center at the Durham VA Health Care System. Jasmine’s current research efforts focus on examining the burden of cancer and quality of cancer care among Veterans, specifically to understand the causes and consequences of disparities along the cancer continuum and effective strategies to eliminate disparities. Her project, Prostate cancer among American Indian/Alaska Native Veterans, was presented at a poster session.
Apply for a Bothwell Award
The Eric D. Bothwell Award in American Indian and Alaska Native Men’s Health will recognize and encourage continued scholarship and development of an early career researcher in the field of American Indian and Alaskan Native Men’s health.
The Eric D. Bothwell Student Award in American Indian and Alaska Native Men’s Health will encourage individuals to begin a career that focuses on the field of American Indian and Alaska Native men’s health.
Presentation of Bothwell Awards will occur at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Nominations for the 2022 awards will be due June 30, 2022.
Please download these PDF instructions for self-nomination for both awards.
For more information about The Eric D. Bothwell Awards in American Indian and Alaska Native Men’s Health, please
contact the Committee Chair, William Maas, DDS, MPH at [email protected]
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