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Ronald H. Levine Legacy Award

• State Health Director's Conference

William Pully, president of the North Carolina Hospital Association, was honored as the 2012 recipient of the Ronald Levine Legacy Award in recognition of his contributions to public health in North Carolina. The award was presented at the conclusion of the annual 2012 State Health Director’s Conference on January 27, 2012. 

In presenting the award, outgoing State Health Director Dr. Jeffrey Engel acknowledged Pully’s leadership in the development of the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT), a statewide syndromic surveillance system that gathers data from hospital emergency departments and other providers to monitor a variety public health issues in a secure and timely fashion, and the North Carolina Health Information Exchange, a public/private collaboration to provide a secure, sustainable technology infrastructure that supports the real time exchange of health information.  

Engel also highlighted Pully’s involvement in the Public Health and Hospital Collaborative, a public-private partnership between the Division of Public Health, NCHA, the NC Institute for Public Health and the NC Center for Public Health Quality that has developed standards for community health assessments as required for nonprofit hospitals by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Public Health Exchange.

Pully, a Rocky Mount native, began his career with NCHA as director of government relations.  He became president of the association in 1999.

Named for former North Carolina State Health Director Dr. Ron Levine, the annual awards honor individuals whose work and commitment on behalf of the public’s health has resulted in significant, sustainable and positive improvements to health and quality of life in North Carolina.

About the Legacy Award and Past Recipients

The person honored with the Legacy Award for Public Health will have a distinguished record of achievement in one or more of the following areas:

• Expanding the scope and impact of public health services and programs;
• Significantly improving public health systems, capacity or infrastructure;
• Enhancing public health capacity through policy development or collaboration with the private sector;
• Improving the public’s health through the creation of sustained partnerships; and/or
• Fostering public health improvement through sound science and research.

In order to be considered for the Statewide Impact Award, the selected individual’s contribution in one or more of these areas must have been sustained and significant.

Criteria for Selection

To be eligible for the Legacy Award for Public Health – Statewide Impact, the selected individual must have been:

• Active in the practice of public health for a period of not less than 10 years; or,
• In a position to directly influence or guide public health systems change with regard to the body of public health work under consideration;

or,

• Successful in making an enduring contribution to North Carolina’s state and local public health system.

Selections are not limited to state and local public health staff.

The Legacy Award for Public Health winners are selected solely by the NC State Health Director. At the discretion of the State Health Director, a nominations committee may be established to; design a nomination process, receive nominations, select at least three individuals who best meet the stated criteria for each award category, and make recommendations to the State Health Director. The State Health Director will then make the final decision for each award.

Award Announcement and Past Recipients