Timothy Hatch, MPA, REHS, Honored with Walter F. Snyder Environmental Health Award
19 Julio 2024 - 2:55PM
Business Wire
Hatch recognized by NSF and NEHA for legacy of
disaster response across the American South, and representing
environmental and public health to the United States Congress, the
United Nations and the World Health Organization
NSF, a global public health and safety organization, and the
National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) today announced
Timothy Hatch, MPA, REHS as the 2024 recipient of the Walter F.
Snyder Environmental Health Award. The award recognizes Hatch for
his outstanding contributions to the advancement of environmental
and public health.
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L-R: Pedro Sancha, President and CEO,
NSF; Timothy Hatch, District Health Administrator for the State of
Alabama Department of Public Health; Dr. David Dyjack, CEO of NEHA
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Hatch serves as the District Health Administrator for the State
of Alabama Department of Public Health, where he leads a team of
300 that solves public and environmental health challenges
impacting 709,000 people across 7,300 square miles. In addition to
guiding policy and securing funding for a healthier Alabama,
Hatch’s legacy includes conducting international environmental
health training in emergency response with the International
Federation of Environmental Health, contributing to the United
Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction’s Food Safety and Public
Health Scorecard, and representing the United States at the 2017
United Nations Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction.
In collaboration with the World Health Organization, he was the
sole environmental health expert on a group tasked with creating a
Public Health Scorecard for resilient cities. In 2022, Hatch spent
hours engaging with the United States Congress to ensure
environmental health was funded as part of the Pandemic and Hazards
Preparedness Act – a monumental benefit to public health
nationwide.
The award was presented to Hatch by Pedro Sancha, President and
CEO of NSF at a ceremony on July 17 at the 2024 NEHA Annual
Education Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“It is an honor to be recognized by two such prestigious
organizations,” said Tim Hatch. “Citizens across the globe are
united in the hope of a safer, healthier world; I am grateful to
have a hand in shaping the environmental health workforce and
frameworks that sustain that world.”
Founded in 1971, the Snyder Award honors Walter F. Snyder,
co-founder and first executive director of NSF, and individuals
who, like him, pioneer environmental and public health through
their careers.
“Tim Hatch’s work has true impact,” said Pedro Sancha, President
and CEO of NSF. “From procuring funding for rural homeowners for
onsite septic systems and serving as the incident manager for
Alabama’s statewide response to the COVID-19 pandemic to training
over 2,000 environmental health specialists for the Center for
Domestic Preparedness in Environmental Health and Emergency
Response, he has improved the health and well-being of millions of
people around the world.”
“Tim Hatch personifies the spirit and letter of the Snyder
Award,” said Dr. David Dyjack, CEO of NEHA. “Tim’s relentless
passion and commitment to environmental public health shines
through a career exemplified by his local, regional and global
workforce capacity building efforts.”
As a lifelong environmental scientist, Hatch has contributed
considerable momentum to furthering environmental health via
voluntary standards. Importantly, he has served as the NEHA
representative to the National Health Preparedness Security Index,
which are voluntary standards that can be implemented for states
and the nation to keep people and the environment safe during
emergencies and natural disasters.
Snyder Award nominations are open to the public, with recipients
selected by a panel of environmental health leaders. For more
information about the Walter F. Snyder Award or to nominate a
colleague, visit NSF’s website.
About NSF
NSF is an independent, global services organization dedicated to
improving human and planet health for more than 80 years by
developing public health standards and providing world-class
testing, inspection, certification, advisory services, and digital
solutions to the food, water, life sciences, and consumer goods
industries. NSF operates in 180 countries and is a World Health
Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on Food Safety, Water
Quality and Medical Device Safety.
About the National Environmental Health Association
(NEHA)
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) represents
nearly 7,000 governmental, private, academic, and uniformed
services sector environmental public health professionals in the
U.S., its territories, and internationally. NEHA is the
profession’s strongest advocate for excellence in the practice of
environmental health as it delivers on its mission to build,
sustain, and empower an effective environmental health
workforce.
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Kalli DeWeese kdeweese@nsf.org
Chana Goussetis cgoussetis@neha.org