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Awards and Honors

Mathematica staff are widely recognized as experts in social science research and evaluation. The contributions they make to high-quality research and innovative methods are recognized in the following prestigious awards and honors.

• Mathematica's abstinence study team, led by senior economist Christopher Trenholm and senior vice president Barbara Devaney, received the 2009 Outstanding Evaluation Award from the American Evaluation Association (AEA). The AEA cited the congressionally mandated, comprehensive nine-year study for its rigor, balance, and impact, which led to major changes in federal policy and funding. The study was downloaded more than 100,000 times and was widely cited in the national and international media. Read more about the evaluation.

• The following article by our obesity and nutrition researchers was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations in 2009 as one of the top five articles that the foundation believes had a major policy impact, affected its work and thinking, or warranted its attention, given the foundation’s focus on advancing the research and knowledge base for childhood obesity prevention: “Association Between School Food Environment and Practices and Body Mass Index of US Public School Children,” by Mary Kay Fox, Allison Hedley Dodd, Ander Wilson, and Phil Gleason.

• Our cash and counseling study team, led by vice president and director of NJ Health Research Randall Brown, won the 2009 HSR Impact Award from AcademyHealth. The award recognizes research that has had a significant impact on health and health care and promotes examples of outstanding research that have been translated into health policy, management, or clinical practice. Read more about the study.

• Senior fellow John Czajka received the 2008 Pat Doyle award from the American Statistical Association, Government Statistics Section (GSS). The award is given to a person who contributes to the GSS in a way that leaves a lasting impact.

• "School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools," by Daniel M. Finkelstein and others and published in Pediatrics, was chosen by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as Most Influential Article of the Year in 2008.

• The National Institutes of Health selected “Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study: Do Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Contribute to Nutrient Adequacy or Excess Among U.S. Infants and Toddlers?”—an article based on data from our Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study—as one of the 25 most significant dietary supplement research advances in 2007.