A University of Pennsylvania professor has been awarded Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for her book about children and drug safety.
The prize was given by American Public Health Association (APHA) to Cynthia Connolly, an associate professor of nursing, for making outstanding contributions to the history of public health through her book, Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth Century America.
The book looks at the history of the use and marketing of drugs for children in the 20th century and traces its development. It also sheds light on the historical dimension of a policy and clinical issue with contemporary significance.
“My research is situated at the junctures of history, public health policy, and clinical practice. I am particularly proud to receive this award from APHA because public health and social justice issues are so inextricably intertwined,” Connolly said.
“Nowhere are the successes—and failures—of public health so visible as child well-being. Historical research reminds us that was as true in the past as it is in the present,” she added.
Connolly has earlier received J. Worth Estes Prize for Pharmaceutical History, Mary Adelaide Nutting Award and Lavinia Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing.