In 1996, two years prior to her death, the California Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education (NC-SOPHE) began awarding the Dorothy B. Nyswander Award for Leadership in Health Education for health educators who have demonstrated the professional standards set forth by Nsywander. The first recipient was Helen Ross, former Chair of the San José State University MPH Program. Subsequent recipients include Kathleen Roe, former MPH Program Director and chair of the SJSU Health Science Department since 2002; Meredith Minkler, Professor of Health and Social Behavior at UC Berkeley, and Kate Lorig, Professor in the Stanford University Department of Medicine and Director of Patient Education Research Center.
In 1996, two years before her death, the California Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education (NC-SOPHE) established the Dorothy B. Nyswander Award for Leadership in Health Education to honor health educators who have met the standards set by Nyswander. The inaugural recipient was Helen Ross, a former Chair of the San José State University MPH Program. Subsequent recipients include Kathleen Roe, who previously directed the MPH Program and chaired the SJSU Health Science Department since 2002; Meredith Minkler, a Professor of Health and Social Behavior at UC Berkeley; and Kate Lorig, a Professor in the Stanford University Department of Medicine and Director of the Patient Education Research Center.