Alberta Health Professionals for the Environment (AHPE) Champion Awards

Overview

The AHPE Champion Awards proudly celebrate Alberta-based health professionals and organizations making remarkable strides in advancing planetary (environmental) health. These annual awards honour those who have implemented impactful interventions, driving positive change for planetary health at community, provincial, national, or even global levels.

Recipients will be honoured on the AHPE website, invited to present their work at a virtual AHPE meeting, and have their contributions shared with the larger Alberta Environmental Network community.

About AHPE

The Alberta Health Professionals for the Environment is an initiative of the Alberta Environmental Network. This coalition aims to build strong partnerships within Alberta's health sector committed to addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution and reducing the adverse effects of environmental threats on the health of humans, animals, and the environment. 

AHPE members are drawn from a diverse range of organizations within the health sector which represent nursing, pharmacy, medicine, public health, environmental educators, health-related charities, allied health professions and workers, and health professionals in training. Learn more about AHPE.

Award Categories

Two recipients will be recognized in the following two award categories:

  • Individual Award (1): Recognizes individual health professionals in Alberta.
  • Organizational Award (1): Recognizes Alberta-based health professional organizations.

Nomination Timeline

  • Nomination Period: January 1, 2025 - March 1, 2025 (11:59 PM MST)
  • Announcement of Winners: April 7, 2025 (World Health Day)

Eligibility Criteria

  • Nominees must be Alberta-based health professionals or health organizations actively engaged in planetary health initiatives.
  • Initiatives should have demonstrated substantive and positive impacts on planetary health.
  • AHPE and AEN Executive or Board Members are not eligible for nomination.

Award Benefits

Recognition on the AHPE website and to AEN’s mailing list.
Opportunity to present work at a virtual AHPE meeting attended by Alberta health professionals and stakeholders.

Nomination Process

Nomination Submission Requirements

Each nomination should include the following:

  1. Nominator Information: Name, relationship to nominee, and contact details.
  2. Nominee Information:
  3. For Individuals: Full name, job title, organization, and contact information.
  4. For Organizations: Organization name, primary contact person, and contact information.
  5. Project/Initiative Details: A summary (500 words max) detailing the intervention(s) the nominee has undertaken, including objectives, scope, and demonstrated impact on planetary health.
  6. Supporting Materials (optional but encouraged): Include links, media, reports, or documents that showcase the nominee’s work and impact.

Selection Criteria

The Selection Committee, composed of members of the AHPE Executive Committee, Core AHPE Membership, and AEN Board of Directors, will evaluate nominations based on:

  • Leadership: Impact and scalability of the intervention.
  • Impact: Demonstrated positive outcomes or improvements in environmental health.
  • Scalability: Potential for the intervention to be replicated, scaled up or adapted.
  • Commitment to Environmental Health: Ongoing dedication to environmental and health initiatives.

Submission Instructions

Announcement of Award Recipients

Recipients will be notified directly and publicly announced on April 7 (World Health Day). Winners will be highlighted on the AHPE website and invited to deliver a brief presentation of their work at a virtual AHPE meeting.
 

Truth & Reconciliation at AEN

Learn more about our process and progress, and share your thoughts with us, on our Decolonization and Indigenization page.

It is our understanding at the Alberta Environmental Network that Reconciliation starts with the land, and there is no Reconciliation until we have faced the Truth. While Truth is held collectively, we recognize everyone is on their own learning journey, at their own pace. Our work at AEN focuses on the lands outlined by the Province of Alberta, lands with which we are learning to be in kinship relationship, in the nêhiyaw (Cree) spirit of treaty-making. The lands we work for are described in Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10. The traditional keepers of this land are Anishinabe, Nêhiyawak (Cree), Dené, Dane-zaa, Nakota, Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda), Tsuut’ina, and Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy); this land is also the homeland of the Métis. We are committed to building meaningful reciprocal relationships, to be of service particularly to those directly experiencing the effects of oppression, genocide, and exploitation.