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COMMENCEMENT2018 GILLINGS SCHOOL of GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH The UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL COMMENCEMENT MAY 12, 2018 Above: THE OLD WELL IS SURROUNDED BY AZALEAS IN SPRING. Front and back cover students: RIDA SHAMS, MALIHA KHAN, PARTH PATEL, JELIYAH CLARK, DHARITRI SHAH, ADRIANNA LOPACZYNSKI, CAITLIN HARRAH, RAWAN AJEEN, AZRAA AYESHA 2 | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Photo by Dan Sears MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER BARBARA K. RIMER, DrPH CAMARA PHYLLIS JONES, MD, MPH, PHD SENIOR FELLOW AT MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE’S SATCHER HEALTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE Congratulations, new UNC Gillings School You made friends of Global Public Health graduates! We welcome and colleagues who you as our newest alumni and colleagues. Many will be with you long Camara Phyllis structural causes of the differences. people helped you get here today – family, into the future. You Jones, MD, As a teacher, her allegories on “race” and friends, faculty, staff, other students and people enjoyed events at the MPH, PhD, past racism illuminate topics that are otherwise from your communities. No one arrives at this School, on campus president of the difficult for many Americans to understand finish line alone. and beyond. American Public or discuss. She hopes through her work to To our guests, thank you for sharing the You go forward Health Association initiate a national conversation on racism journey with our graduates and for joining us to into a world that is senior fellow at that will eventually lead to a National celebrate them. holds many public Morehouse School Campaign Against Racism Graduates, we celebrate your accomplishments! health challenges, After earning a bachelor’s degree in Dean Barbara K. Rimer of Medicine’s As students, you conducted inspiring research, including scarcity of Satcher Health molecular biology from Wellesley College, mastered challenging courses, passed difficult water, income and health inequality, infectious and Leadership Jones earned a Doctor of Medicine from exams, won case and other competitions, noninfectious diseases, obesity and malnutrition, Stanford University School of Medicine, Camara Phyllis Jones Institute and garnered awards and recognition, held leadership high cost of lifesaving medicines, the opioid Cardiovascular and Master of Public Health and Doctor of roles, volunteered on and off campus, completed epidemic, and too many people lacking quality Research Institute. Philosophy degrees in epidemiology from capstones, juggled many responsibilities, taught, health care. You can be effective community leaders, Dr. Jones is a family physician and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of presented at conferences, co-authored papers whatever your professional roles. Reaching out, epidemiologist whose work focuses on Public Health. She completed residency for major journals, had children, lost sleep, and beyond simplistic labels, to treat every person with naming, measuring and addressing the training in general preventive medicine wrote master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. dignity and respect, will enable you to become part impacts of racism on health and well-being. at Johns Hopkins and in family practice at You helped solve urgent public health of the solutions the world desperately needs. You She has broadened the national health debate Montefiore Hospital. problems, even as students, a special part of can be on the cutting edge for civil society and use to include both universal access to high- Prior to her work at Morehouse, she was your Gillings School training. We are proud that your knowledge and skills to make a better world. quality health care and attention to the social assistant professor at Harvard T.H. Chan you received seven of the Graduate School’s 22 As you leave Gillings to make the world and determinants of health and equity, including School of Public Health from 1994 to 2000 Impact and Horizon Awards, which recognize your communities safer, healthier and more just, poverty and racism. and a medical officer at the Centers for the positive benefit of students’ research for remember that your education was supported, in As a methodologist, she has developed new Disease Control and Prevention from 2000 North Carolinians. part, through the generosity of North Carolinians. methods for comparing full distributions of to 2014. You contributed to improving the environment Give back, however you can, when you can. The data, rather than simply comparing means “Dr. Jones is an inspiring, incredibly and health, strengthening communities and School and Carolina always will be your home. or proportions, in order to investigate accomplished health professional with a creating greater understanding of our world's Mentor our students and support the School. population-level risk factors and propose compelling personal story and a motivating, biggest challenges. Committed to being a global Come back to visit and share your stories. As Gillings population-level interventions. awesome speaker with a powerful message” school, as a public school of public health, we are School alumni and Tar Heels, you are forever As a social epidemiologist, her work on said Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, dean and first for North Carolina. one of us. “race”-associated differences in health Alumni Distinguished Professor at the You have spoken out about injustice and stood Congratulations and best wishes, wherever outcomes goes beyond documenting those Gillings School. “We are so grateful that she for health equity and broader equity. You made your journeys take you! Go Heels! differences to vigorously investigating the agreed to join us for commencement.” our School and communities better. You are energetic, optimistic, committed, passionate, With appreciation and gratitude, determined and resilient, qualities that will serve you well throughout life! 4 | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL GILLINGS SCHOOL OF GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH | 2017 COMMENCEMENT | 5 THE COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM THE OFFICIAL PARTY Please stand for the processional of the Official Party, ceremony participants chairs faculty honorees Members of the Faculty and Candidates for Degrees. Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH Michael Kosorok, PhD Carmen Samuel-Hodge, RD, PhD academic procession The Official Party Dean Biostatistics Department of Nutrition Candidates for Baccalaureate Degrees Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Barbara Turpin, PhD Alumni Award Candidates for Masters Degrees Laura Linnan, ScD Senior Associate Dean for Environmental Sciences Candidates for Doctoral Degrees Academic and Student Affairs and Engineering Amanda Holliday, MS, RD, LDN Department of Nutrition presiding Barbara K. Rimer Todd Nicolet, PhD Til Stürmer, MD, PhD Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Dean, Gillings School of Global Public Health Vice Dean Epidemiology Endowment Award for Teaching, Research, and Service welcome Barbara K. Rimer Margaret Bentley, PhD Kurt Ribisl, PhD Associate Dean for Global Health Health Behavior Jeffrey Simms, MSPH, MDIV recognition of faculty Laura Linnan Department of Health Policy Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Katherine Gora Combs Morris Weinberger, PhD and Management Adante Hart Health Policy and Management John E. Larsh Award for Mentorship recognition of students Katherine Gora Combs Co-presidents, Student Government Carolyn Halpern, PhD Co-President, Student Government Maternal and Child Health introduction of Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, commencement speaker Adante Hart MPH, PhD Beth Mayer-Davis, PhD Co-President, Student Government Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Nutrition commencement speaker Leadership Institute and Camara Phyllis Jones Cardiovascular Research Institute Anna Schenck, PhD Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership and Cardiovascular Morehouse School of Medicine Director, Public Health Research Institute, Morehead School of Medicine Past President, American Public Leadership Program Past President, American Public Health Association Health Association recognition of degrees Barbara K. Rimer Todd Jones, BSPH, JD Chair, Gillings School Naya Villarreal Alumni Association Coordinator, Gillings Research, Innovation and Global Solutions Naya Villarreal, MPH Coordinator, Research, Innovation William Vizuete and Global Solutions Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering congratulatory remarks William Vizuete, PhD Todd Jones Associate Professor, Chair, Gillings School Alumni Association Environmental Sciences closing remarks and Engineering Barbara K. Rimer academic recessional Please remain in place for the recessional of the official party, faculty members and our newest alumni. After the recessional, we invite graduates and their guests to a reception at the Gillings School. Shuttle buses are waiting outside of the Carmichael Arena on South Street and will run continuously. Music by the Amalgam Brass Quintet 6 | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL GILLINGS SCHOOL OF GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH | 2017 COMMENCEMENT | 7 NOTES ON ACADEMIC DRESS AUGUST 2017 GRADUATES The following information, condensed from An Academic APRICOT: Nursing BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Samuel Nyako-Agyakwa, HPM DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Costume Code and Ceremony Guide, published by the BROWN: Fine Arts IN PUBLIC HEALTH Mary Katherine Pyle, PHLP American Council on Education, identifies academic CITRON: Social Work Audra Joyce Reiter, PHLP Sally Bullock, NUTR attire worn during today’s ceremony. CRIMSON: Journalism Ranjitha Ananthan, HPM Michael Kolinski Robinson,