Our Early Stage Investigator Lecture recognizes early career prevention scientists who have not successfully competed for a substantial NIH-supported research project, but who have already made outstanding research contributions to their respective fields and are poised to become future leaders in prevention research.
2025 Call for Nominations
The nomination period has closed. The awardee(s) will be notified in January 2025.
Lecture Title: Powered by Numbers: Leveraging Epidemiology to Foster Prevention of Traumatic Brain Injury-related Sequelae
Lecture Title: Misperceived Social Norms as Drivers of HIV Prevention: Exploring Opportunities for Individual and Social Change
Lecture Title: Early Detection and Prevention of Angle Closure Glaucoma Using OCT and Artificial Intelligence
Past Awardees
2023
Structural and Social Determinants of Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Lilah M. Besser, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
May 3, 2023
Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: A Focus on Heart Failure
Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, M.D., Ph.D., M.Phil.
May 10, 2023
Cardiometabolic Health and Cardiovascular Prevention in Latino Population
Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, M.D., Ph.D.
June 7, 2023
2022
Understanding and Preventing Sport-Related Brain Injury Using a Public Health Prevention Framework
Christine Baugh, Ph.D.
May 11, 2022
2021
The Social Side Effects of Biomedical HIV Technologies: Facilitating the Roll-Out of Long-Acting Injectable ART and PrEP
Morgan Philbin, Ph.D., M.H.S.
April 28, 2021
Dietary Patterns To Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D.
May 5, 2021