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Winter 2008

In this issue... Dean’s Message ...... 1 Students: Student Events ...... 6 Legacy Laureate Alumni ...... 8 Luncheon Faculty Research ...... 10 7 Faculty Honors ...... 12 Books by Faculty ...... 14 Centers News ...... 16 Development ...... 18 Faculty Research: Recent Events ...... 22 National Children’s Study 10

Books by Faculty: Unequal 14 Opportunity

Centers News: 16 Center for Minority Health

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Dean’s Message

A Message from the Dean Donald S. Burke, MD

This issue of PublicHealth Quarterly looks back at the year that was in 2007 at the Graduate School of Public Health. Because 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of GSPH, we bring you 60 gems from this past year — metaphorical candles on the school’s birthday cake, if you will. Join with me in offering hearty congratulations to everyone involved with these achievements, realizing that they represent only a glimpse of what we can accomplish.

“Because 2008 marks Our future is bright. I believe that the next few years will bring unprecedented awareness of the value of public health, both here in the USA and around the the 60th anniversary of world. Although our planet faces challenges that Paul Mellon never dreamed the founding of of when he and the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust endowed our school 60 years ago, I am encouraged by the intense interest in prevention GSPH, we bring you and health promotion in the presidential contests, and by the increasing interest in “smart power” in the international arenas. GSPH is poised to take the lead 60 gems from this past on many fronts, both in our traditional areas of strength such as women’s year — metaphorical health, and at the new frontiers, such as computational modeling. To open this compendium of bright spots from the past year, I will point out a few candles on the items that apply to the school as a whole. Then inside you’ll find “brag points” school’s birthday cake, that cover every aspect of the school. These delights are dished out, bite-sized, so you can enjoy them at your leisure, one or two at a time. But if you are so if you will.” inclined, go ahead and devour them all at once!

Donald S. Burke, MD Dean, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh

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Dean’s Message

School Wide Kudos GSPH Research Funding GSPH continues to rank highest among state-related schools of public health in terms of research funding from the National Institutes of Health, trailing only Johns Hopkins and Harvard in total NIH research funding. In fiscal year 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, GSPH scientists were awarded nearly $52.5 million in research grants. However, the average amount of money per grant award puts GSPH at the top, with an average award of $740,000 per research grant compared to $661,000 for Harvard and $674,000 for Johns Hopkins. In addition, when you consider research funding per all faculty, GSPH ranks second. Finally, GSPH ranks first in funding per tenured faculty.

NIH Research Grants To Schools Of Public Health, 2005 GSPH Research Funding 2000-2007 $120 $80 $70 $100 $60 $80 GSPH Faculty Research $50 Credited to GSPH $40 GSPH Faculty Research millions $60

millions Credited to Other Units $30 $40 $20 $20 $10 $0 $0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

EMORY Fiscal Year HARVARD MICHIGAN COLUMBIA TEXAS A&M MINNESOTA PITTSBURGH WASHINGTON JOHNS HOPKINS NORTH CAROLINA

NIH Funding per Faculty Position (all Faculty) NIH Research Funding per TENURED Faculty Position $600 $1,000

$800 $400 $600

$400 $200 $200

NIH Research Funding (thousands) Funding NIH Research $0 (thousands) Funding NIH Research $0 UAB UNC UAB UNC UCLA HARVARD HARVARD MICHIGAN MICHIGAN COLUMBIA COLUMBIA MINNESOTA UC BERKLEY MINNESOTA PITTSBURGH UC BERKLEY PITTSBURGH WASHINGTON WASHINGTON JOHNS HOPKINS JOHNS HOPKINS

CEPH Reaccreditation attests to the quality of GSPH’s educa- The Council on Education for Public tional programs and our ability to Health (CEPH) awarded GSPH accred- prepare students for entry into the itation for a seven-year term, extend- public health professions. Schools ing to July 1, 2014. CEPH is an inde- seeking CEPH accreditation are pendent agency recognized by the U.S. evaluated on 10 criteria. GSPH met Department of Education to accredit all 10 and was commended on two— schools of public health. Accreditation instructional programs and service.

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New Mission/Vision/Values Statement As part of our strategic planning process, we revised our mission, vision, and values statements. This collaborative process resulted in the following:

Preamble GSPH Values Established in 1948 to address the As public health professionals, our To create the best possible learning environmental and occupational health research, teaching, and service rest on environment for our students, we are needs of our industrial region, the core values and commitments. Chief dedicated to our continuous develop- Graduate School of Public Health among these is a shared commitment ment as educators, to using a variety builds on its long and storied history to improved health for all. Next is our of pedagogical approaches, and to of educating public health leaders, dedication to excellence in all facets of staying on the cutting edge in use of engaging in public health service and our work, recognizing that improving effective, new teaching technologies. research, and translating research into the health of the public rests on the public health practices and policies to generation and application of the best Finally, we affirm our commitment improve the health of populations scientific evidence and pushing the to the Principles of the Ethical regionally, nationally, and globally. frontiers of research. Practice of Public Health (http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/ GSPH Mission Our contributions to improving the 1CED3CEA-287E-4185-9CBD- The mission of the Graduate School of public’s health rest on the significant BD405FC60856/0/ethicsbrochure.pdf). Public Health is to provide leadership role each public health discipline We adhere to the highest ethical stan- in health promotion, disease prevention plays. Our multidisciplinary approach dards in the conduct of all components and the elimination of health dispari- is essential to addressing health chal- of our mission. We acknowledge that ties in populations. Through integrated lenges in a global society. We engage improving health for all requires that programs of excellence in education, partners—local, regional, state, public health professionals secure and research, and service, we generate national, and global—in our efforts maintain the trust of our communities. new knowledge to drive effective public to improve public health. health practice and policy, and improve the management of health systems. Social justice is also a core value of GSPH Vision public health. We are committed to Global leadership in creating and diversity in its broadest sense, translating knowledge to enhance the pledging to create an inclusive and public’s health. respectful environment that welcomes all students, faculty, and staff, and that celebrates diversity of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and religion. From our diverse backgrounds comes a rich array of perspectives and experiences that strengthen our learning environment.

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Dean’s Message

Steady Growth Applications and Application Trends 1200 admissions continue to rise. Enrollment for fall 1000 2007 is 601 primary 800 students and 41 600

secondary students. 400 In fall 2006, 200 we had 557 0 primary students. 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 FALL

Primary Enrollment, Fall 2002 – Fall 2007 Enrollment 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

New GSPH Web Site December saw the launch of the new GSPH Web site. While the address remains the same (www.publichealth.pitt.edu), the look is completely different and easier to navigate. The redesign of the Web site is only one of a number of initiatives to improve the public face of the school.

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Board of Visitors < In late November, GSPH hosted the Members of the GSPH first meeting of our reconstituted Board of Visitors at its first meeting on Board of Visitors. These public health, November 30, front business, and civic leaders improve the row from left: Becky Surma, Bill Green, quality of the school by providing can- Shelly Onorato, Tom did, comprehensive, and informed Detre, Jo Haas, Karen reaction to GSPH educational objec- Feinstein. Back row from left: Bruce Dixon, tives and programs and by providing David Hunter, Lee advice in GSPH’s strategic planning Foster, Don Burke, Ian Rawson, Eric Mann efforts. Its meetings provide a forum for the school to demonstrate its accountability to external constituen- Bruce Dixon, MD Shelly Onorato, MHA cies. The board of visitors may have Director, Allegheny County GSPH Alumna significant influence on institutional Health Department KidsVoice Spokesperson advancement, not only for direct assis- tance in fund-raising, but also by pro- Karen Feinstein, PhD Diane Peterson, MPH viding an opportunity to communicate President, Jewish Healthcare GSPH Alumna to a broader audience and, therefore, Foundation of Pittsburgh President & CEO, to create a base of support for the D. Peterson and Associates school’s and the University’s public William Green, MD relations efforts. GSPH Alumnus Ian Rawson, PhD Emeritus Professor, GSPH Alumnus Members of the GSPH board of visi- Orthopedic Surgery Board Chair, Hôpital Albert Schwitzer, tors are appointed by the chancellor, in Haiti consultation with the senior vice chan- Joanna Haas cellor for the health sciences and the Henry Buhl Jr. Director, The Honorable James Roddey GSPH dean. The board is drawn from Carnegie Science Center Emeritus Trustee, top experts in public health, corporate University of Pittsburgh and civic leaders, and alumni, with David Hunter, MPH Former Chief Executive, diversity of membership a priority. All GSPH Alumnus Allegheny County University boards include members of Principal, H&G Advisors Inc. the University of Pittsburgh board of Elizabeth Surma, MPH trustees and are chaired by a trustee. William Kassling GSPH Alumna Chairman, Wabtec Corporation Vice Chair, Baptist Homes Lee B. Foster II Chairman of the Board of Visitors Adel Mahmoud, MD, PhD William Trueheart, EdD Commonwealth Trustee, Former CEO Merck Vaccines Special Trustee, University of University of Pittsburgh Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Pittsburgh Chairman of the Board, International Affairs, Princeton L.B. Foster Company The Honorable Mary Jo White Eric Mann Commonwealth Trustee, Thomas Detre, MD President & CEO, YMCA of University of Pittsburgh Emeritus Distinguished Senior Vice Pittsburgh Pennsylvania State Senator, Chancellor for the Health Sciences, 21st District University of Pittsburgh Jeffrey Morby Chairman/Managing Director, Amarna Corporation, LLC

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Dean’s Day GSPH’s annual Dean’s Day Research Competition was established in 1999 by Dean

Herbert Rosenkranz. The event allows students to submit projects in experimental or laboratory research; studies that employ either qualitative or quantitative methodology; community-based programs, interventions or program evaluations; or policy analyses Student or policy interventions. Dean’s Day 2008 will take place on Friday, March 7. Awards Luncheon

Thirty students will be selected to pres- < From left: Bill Green, student Darmendra Ramcharran, student Jennifer Middleton, Dorothy Green, Dean Don Burke. The Greens established the William T. Green Jr. Award ent their projects, 20 via posters and 10 in Public Health Studies. Ramcharran and Middleton were the first two recipients. via oral presentations. Here are some photos from Dean’s Day 2007: World AIDS Day

< The Global Health Student Association marked World AIDS day with, among other activities, student poster

presentations. <

GHSA president Genevieve Barrow and vice president Howie Lim

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Legacy Laureate Luncheon In October, the University of Pittsburgh named eight Legacy Laureates, alumni recognized for their outstanding personal and professional accomplish- ments. GSPH alumnus Thomas Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System in

Los Angeles, was one of the 2007 < Legacy Laureate Tom Priselac greets students before the luncheon. laureates. To honor him, GSPH invited Priselac to speak to the school’s student organization representatives about leadership and success. The informal luncheon gave the students the opportunity to ask questions and gain insight from a very successful and important leader.

< From left, Beaufort Longest, PhD, professor of Health Policy and Management; honoree Tom Priselac; GSPH Alumni Society president Anne-Elizabeth McGeary; and student Christy Lawson

< Students Keon Gilbert, Christy Lawson, and Emilie Delestienne

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Diane Peterson (MPH ’75), FACHE, the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project Over the past 50 years, EIS officers president of (PUMP). Each year, the 40 Under 40 have played pivotal roles in combating D. Peterson and program recognizes 40 people under the root causes of major epidemics. Associates in the age of 40 who are committed to The EIS played a key role in the global Houston, was shaping the Pittsburgh region and eradication of smallpox by sending officers to the farthest reaches of the named the making it a better place for everyone. world; restored public confidence in recipient of Over the past nine years, honorees the first polio vaccine after a defective one of two have ranged from corporate CEOs to vaccine led to panic; and discovered American nonprofit volunteers. how the AIDS virus was transmitted. College of More recently, EIS officers have Healthcare Neyal Ammary (MPH ’03) and documented the obesity epidemic in Executives (ACHE) 2007 Gold Medal Jamie Rayman (MPH ’06) have the United States, helped states reduce Awards. The Gold Medal Award is been selected for the prestigious U.S. tobacco use, and studied whether ACHE’s highest honor bestowed on Department of Health and Human disease outbreaks were a result of outstanding leaders who, through a Services (HHS) Emerging Leaders bioterrorism. Many of the nation’s career of service, have made significant Program (ELP). The ELP is designed to medical and public health leaders, contributions to the healthcare field. recruit high-potential employees and including CDC directors and deans of provide fast track development high- the country’s top schools of public The purpose of this award is to identify lighting leadership and business skills health, are EIS alumni. fellows of ACHE who best exemplify through experiential learning and train- leadership at the organizational, local, ing. This program is one of the recruit- state/provincial, and national levels. The ment tools used by HHS to hire excep- 2007 Distinguished Alumni Gold Medal Award recognizes individu- tional interns with a variety of back- Awardees als who go beyond the confines of their grounds for the effective analysis and Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni own organization to continually con- execution of HHS programs. Award are GSPH graduates who have tribute to the improvement of health- made a significant contribution to the field care services and community health. Ami Patel (PhD ’05) and of public health, to GSPH, or to both. Rashida Dorsey (PhD ’06) have been Thomas Priselac (MPH ’75), presi- selected for the Agnes Bouldin (DrPH ’88), FACHE dent and CEO prestigious is a professor of Cedars-Sinai Epidemic and program Health System Intelligence director at the in Los Angeles, Service (EIS) in University of is chairman- the Centers for Maryland elect of the Disease Control University and Prevention. American College. She The EIS was Hospital graduated from established in Association 1951 following GSPH in 1988 with a doctor of public and was the start of the health degree in health services admin- featured on the cover of the October Korean War as istration. She was a scholarship student 2007 issue of that organization’s an early warn- with the U.S. Navy Medical Service magazine, Hospitals & Health ing system Corps while working toward her Networks. Priselac is also serving as against biologi- degree. Bouldin concentrated on health the Executive in Residence for GSPH’s cal warfare and policy analysis and served as a fellow Department of Health Policy and man-made epi- in the GSPH Health Policy Institute. Management and was named a Legacy demics. The Laureate of the University in October program, com- Anthony Lubiniecki (ScD ’72) is vice posed of med- 2007, the highest honor that the president of technology transfer and ical doctors, researchers, and scientists University bestows on its alumni. project planning within pharmaceutical who serve in 2-year assignments, today development at Centocor R&D, Inc., a has expanded into a surveillance and Diego Chaves-Gnecco, MD, (MPH response unit for all types of epi- subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. He ’00), was named one of 2007’s 40 demics, including chronic disease has been active in shaping regulatory Under 40 by Pittsburgh magazine and and injuries. policy by serving as a Pharmaceutical

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Research and Manufacturers of Laura Rosato, (PhD ’90), is the Since 1993, he has served on the board America repre- global product of global links, a Pittsburgh-based sentative to the regulatory stew- organization with a unique dual International ardship and humanitarian and environmental Conferences on occupational mission. global links collects discarded medical supplies from healthcare facili- Harmonization health risk ties and manufacturers’ surplus and (ICH) expert assessment recycles them to healthcare institutions working groups leader for in the developing world. global links on specifications Honeywell. She closely matches its aid to the articulat- (Q6B), active pharmaceutical ingredi- is responsible for providing support for ed needs of the recipient to ensure ents (Q7A), genetic stability (Q5C), and the product stewardship issues related maximum impact on healthcare viral safety (Q5A), as well as the rap- to toxicology, industrial hygiene, and delivery and on capacity building. porteur for cell substrates (Q5D) and safety for new product development Since 1989, global links has donated comparability (Q5E). He is presently and manufacturing issues on a global over $129 million worth of goods to working with ICH quality groups to basis. She has had a broad variety of more than 20 countries. determine future long term strategy. positions in academic, industrial, and community environments. GSPH Alumni Society Dietrich Stephan (PhD ’96) serves as the deputy director of Rosato received a BS in biochemistry Executive Committee discovery in 1981 and an MS in biochemistry in Members of the Alumni Society execu- research and the 1985 from the University of Pittsburgh. tive committee are elected at the annual director of the In 1990, she received a PhD in industri- meeting. The members for year 2007- neurogenomics al toxicology from GSPH, specializing 08 were elected on June 26, 2007. in inhalation toxicology and industrial division at the hygiene. She has extensive experience Translational executing safety testing programs to Anne McGeary, MHA ’85 Genomics support the product development of President Research industrial chemicals and consumer If you are interesting in becoming more Institute, a non-profit research center products and managed the toxicology/ active in the alumni society, please con- focused on utilizing advances in product safety program for a multi-bil- tact McGeary at [email protected] genomics toward the development of lion-dollar corporation. early diagnostics and targeted therapies Kristi Riccio, MPH ’02 in the treatment of neurological disor- Charles Vargo (MHA ’84) is a 1984 Vice President ders. Stephan’s current research activi- graduate of ties focus on the identification of the GSPH’s health Chad Rittle, MPH ’03 heritable genetic factors underlying administration Immediate Past President devastating disorders such as schizo- program and Thomas Brindock, MPH ’04 phrenia, autism, bipolar disorder, is also a Secretary/Treasurer ALS, Parkinson’s disease, depression, Duquesne Diego Chaves-Gnecco, MD, MPH ’00 and others. University Member-at-Large School of Business and Administration alumnus. Lucas Musewe, DrPH ’02 2007 Margaret F. Gloninger He is executive director of the Member-at-Large Service Award Recipients Washington Physician Hospital The Margaret F. Gloninger Service Organization, Inc., a partnership of Mark Your Calendar Award was established in honor of The Washington Hospital and 225 The annual GSPH alumni dinner will be held on the late Margaret Fitzgerald Gloninger primary care and specialist physicians. Saturday, April 26, 2008, at the Pittsburgh (MSHyg ’66), GSPH graduate and Previously, he was associated with the Athletic Association in Oakland. Convocation will former faculty member in maternal Pittsburgh Mercy Health System for 15 and child health. This award is pre- years, where he held various positions be on Sunday, April 27, at 5 p.m. in the Carnegie sented annually to a GSPH alumnus including vice president of medical- Music Hall in Oakland. Look for your invitation to who has made a significant contribu- arrive soon. tion to GSPH or to the community professional services. through volunteer service.

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Faculty Research

Direct-to- Consumer Drug Advertising

Julie Donohue, assistant professor of health policy and management, and her colleagues published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2007 on pharmaceutical indus- try spending on and FDA regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising of pre- scription drugs. This controversial form of pharmaceutical promotion has important effects on public health and National Children’s Study health care spending. Donohue found National Children’s Study that spending on direct-to-consumer advertising has con- GSPH has been selected as a study cen- Centers for Disease Control and tinued to ter in the National Children’s Study to Prevention) and the U.S. increase assess the effects of environmental and Environmental Protection Agency. in recent genetic factors on child and human Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH, chair of years health in the United States. The study the Department of Epidemiology at despite center will manage local participant GSPH, is the principal investigator of criticism recruitment and data collection in the the Pittsburgh study center. The of the largest study of child and human National Children’s Study eventually practice in health ever conducted in the United will follow a representative sample of < the wake Julie Donohue States. GSPH is one of 22 new study 100,000 children from before birth to of safety- centers of the National Children’s age 21, seeking information to prevent related market withdrawals of heavily Study, a collaborative effort between and treat some of the nation’s most advertised drugs (e.g. Vioxx). In addi- the U.S. Department of Health and pressing health problems, including tion, the article reports that most drugs Human Services (including the autism, birth defects, diabetes, heart that are advertised to consumers initi- National Institute of Child Health and disease, and obesity. The Pittsburgh ate ad campaigns shortly after being Human Development (NICHD), the study locations will focus on commu- approved by the FDA and that FDA National Institute of Environmental nities in Westmoreland County, Pa., monitoring of drug ads has weakened Health Sciences at the National and Marion County, W.Va. in recent years. This article generated Institutes of Health (NIH), and the substantial interest among the press. Donohue conducted more than a dozen radio, newspaper, and magazine inter- views and stories were aired/printed in approximately 50 news outlets including Yahoo News, Business Week, the International Herald Tribune, and ABC News Radio among others.

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Outstanding New Tool to Measure Environmental Scientist Alzheimer’s We recently learned that Cheryl Fattman, PhD, assistant professor in the Therapies Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, has been named A measure designed by Steven M. an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist by the National Institute of Albert, PhD, MSPH, MA, professor of Environmental Health Science. Fattman’s research focuses on silicosis, a respira- behavioral and community health sci- tory disease brought on by inhalation of silica particles. These multi-year awards ences, called the Activity and Affect were specifically designed to help establish the careers of talented young scientists Indicators of Quality of Life who have not yet received their first RO1 grants. The program is only in its sec- (AAIQOL), was translated into 11 ond year of funding and has made awards to only 15 scientists nationwide, but languages for use in a European two of them have been from GSPH’s Department of Environmental and Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic trial. It Occupational Health. In its first year, the program granted an award to Patricia went through a rigorous back transla- Opresko, PhD, also an assistant professor in EOH. tion process undertaken by the MAPI Institute (Lyon, France). The measure is now available for use in Austria, Belgium (French, Dutch), Bulgaria, Statistical Collaboration Across Disciplines Czech Republic, France, Germany, Last year, the Department of Biostatistics had primary responsibility for the Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, UK statistical—and often data processing—components of research that totals more (English), and the United States than $120 million in National Institutes of Health funding. Major collaborations (English, Spanish). exist with the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Medicine, the Department of Radiology, the Department of Critical Care Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. International Training In January 2007, faculty from the Department of Human Genetics—Daniel Weeks, PhD; Eleanor Feingold, PhD; Michael Barmada, PhD; Betsy Gettig, MS; and Lisa Parker, PhD—taught a workshop titled “Genetic Epidemiological Methods for Dissection of Complex Human Traits” in Kolkata, India, sponsored by the NIH/Fogarty India-U.S. Research Training Program in Genetics. Attended by students from throughout India, this workshop provided training in statistical methodologies for the analyses of data on complex traits and disorders, as well as in research ethics in human genetics. A Single Molecule Gives Clues to Many Disease Processes Scientists in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology discovered that DC-SIGN, a molecule that normally acts in antigen presentation and cell trafficking, is the major receptor for Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, and could therefore serve as a new target for therapeutic drugs against Kaposi’s sarcoma. Researchers also discovered that B lymphocytes express DC-SIGN and use this in a new pathway of transmission of HIV-1 to T cells, where the virus undergoes enhanced replication, implicating this process in the pathogenesis and persistence of HIV-1 infection.

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Faculty Honors

Donald S. Burke, MD, dean of accredited by the Council on Education proud of his former students, which GSPH and University of Pittsburgh of Public Health (CEPH). The first include a dean, a chancellor, four cen- associate vice chancellor for global exam will be given in August 2008. ter directors, and chairpersons around health, has been named an the world. He believes that “the best Ambassador in Research!America’s Goldstein was also chosen as the first mentor is one whose students surpass Paul G. Rogers Society for Global chair of the new Interest Group on him”. His primary efforts now are in Health Research. Burke is now one of Environmental Health and Toxicology the area global education in prevention 50 of the nation’s foremost global formed by the Institute of Medicine with the establishment of the health experts who have joined forces (IOM). The IOM uses interest groups Supercourse (www.pitt.edu/~super1). to increase awareness about the critical to provide an opportunity for members need for greater U.S. public and private to interact across disciplines, enrich Judith Lave, PhD, professor of investment in research to improve glob- their understanding of pertinent scien- health economics and chair of the al health. The society, named for The tific and policy topics, and contribute Department of Health Policy and Honorable Paul G. Rogers, a former to the work of the institute. Management, was reappointed to the Florida congressman and renowned Board of Health Services of the champion for research to improve Ronald LaPorte (PhD ’76), professor Institute of Medicine. health, was established in 2006 by of epidemiology, was appointed by Research!America with funding from Dean Burke to Sati Mazumdar, PhD, professor of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. lead the school’s biostatistics, was selected as a fellow In its first two years, the Society’s multidisciplinary of the American Statistical Advisory Council—which includes master of public Association, the nation’s preeminent three Nobel Laureates—selected 50 of health (MMPH) professional statistical society. the nation’s leading scientist advocates program. Mazumdar was honored in recognition to serve as ambassadors. LaPorte was of her outstanding professional contri- trained as a butions to and leadership in the field Bernard cognitive psy- of statistical science. Goldstein, chologist before taking postdoctoral MD, professor training in epidemiology. He has been At the annual of environmental on the faculty in GSPH’s Department meeting of the and occupational of Epidemiology since 1981, during American health, chairs which time he has published 513 articles College of the board of and has completed research in diabetes, Epidemiology directors of the injuries, and many other areas. He is (ACE) in National Board the director for disease monitoring and September, of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE), telecommunications at the World Roberta established in September 2005 as an Health Organization (WHO) Ness, MD, independent organization to ensure Collaborating Centre at Pitt and was MPH, was announced as the group’s that students and graduates from the principal investigator for the WHO president-elect for 2007-08. Ness is schools and programs of public health multinational project for childhood professor of epidemiology, medicine, accredited by the Council on Education diabetes. and obstetrics/gynecology at Pitt; chair of Public Health (CEPH) have mastered of the Department of Epidemiology at the knowledge and skills relevant to He was the first recipient of the GSPH; director of GSPH’s Women’s contemporary public health. The board Distinguished Teacher Award at the Health Program; and director of can- developed a voluntary credentialing University of Pittsburgh and winner of cer epidemiology at the University of exam for graduates who earn masters the Lilienfeld award from the American Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Ness has or doctoral degrees from the 37 public Public Health Association for lifetime been at the forefront of women’s health schools and 65 programs achievements in education. He is most health research, being one of the first

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to propose the research paradigm now Ronald D. Stall, PhD,was appointed termed “gender-based biology.” chair of the Department of Wesley Rohrer, PhD, assistant Behavioral and professor and assistant chair of health Community management education, chaired the Health Sciences. health policy and management sub- Stall is an inter- committee of the NBPHE Study Guide nationally rec- Working Group that is preparing the ognized scholar NBPHE Public Health Credential Study and pioneer in Guide. NBPHE is the group that is the field of identifying HIV/AIDS risk developing the MPH credentialing exam. behavior. He has established several key areas for HIV prevention through Joseph J. Schwerha, MD, MPH, his recognition of the issue of relapse professor in the Department of in HIV risk behaviors, the influence of Environmental and Occupational substance abuse on sexual risk behav- Health, is the ior, AIDS risk behaviors among older co-author of a Americans, and the syndemics of drug recent report use, depression, violence, and child- issued by the hood sexual abuse, among other topics. Institute of Medicine Stall joined the GSPH faculty in 2005, (IOM). Training during which time he assumed the Physicians for directorship of GSPH’s Multidisciplinary Public Health Master of Public Health (MMPH) Careers was created by a committee of program, served as a professor in the pre-eminent public health professionals Department of Behavioral and and physicians. Schwerha was the only Community Health Sciences, and was member of the committee to have an appointed an assistant dean of GSPH. appointment in a school of public health, lending credibility to the train- The Society for Risk Analysis awarded ing provided to physicians by the Felicia Wu, PhD, assistant professor University of Pittsburgh Graduate of environmental and occupational School of Public Health. health, the highly prestigious 2007 Chauncey Starr Award, which each The report is a result of a U.S. year honors the individual aged 40 Congressional mandate to the IOM. or under who has made the most Concerned about a lack of well-trained exceptional contributions to the field physicians, IOM launched a study to of risk analysis. Wu specializes in the determine what knowledge and skills use of risk and economic analysis in are needed by public health physicians, environmental health and policy. One the number of programs needed to of her main research areas is indoor maintain an adequate supply of air quality. physicians trained for public health careers, and how these programs can be funded.

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Books by Faculty

Gay and bisexual men have often been their underlying causes, and potential invisible in health disparities research. solutions. Thus, a primary emphasis of As a result, the specific needs and the book is to document health dispar- experiences of gay, bisexual, and other ities among gay and bisexual men men who have sex with men (MSM) while also describing public health are often neglected in public health solutions to these challenges. efforts to improve the health and well- being of disadvantaged groups. Most At the American Public Health public health students, academicians, Association annual meeting in and practitioners recognize the associa- Washington, DC, in November, Stall tion between racial/ethnic minority joined his fellow editors in a scientific status and the disproportionate burden session about topics covered in the of preventable disease in the United book. Stall presented a developmental States. Much less attention has been model that links the effects of key directed, however, toward health dis- stressors experienced by many MSM parities that affect gay and bisexual with negative health outcomes. In men. These disparities affect the lives addition, he outlined future directions of an estimated 5.3-7.4 million for research and prevention of health American men, and are an important disparities among MSM. Unequal Opportunity: concern for public health. Health Disparities Affecting Until very recently, the relative invisi- Gay and Bisexual Men in the bility of this group and a paucity of United States empirical data have hampered attempts Department of Behavioral and to identify health disparities experi- Community Health Sciences chair enced by gay and bisexual men. This Ronald Stall, PhD, MPH, co-edited a book reviews and synthesizes evidence book published by Oxford University of health disparities among gay and Press on health disparities among bisexual men, identifies individual and American gay men, the first volume to community factors that contribute to do so in this emerging field of study. these disparities, and articulates strate- (Wolitski, R., Stall, R., and Valdiserri, gies for public health efforts to elimi- R., Unequal Opportunity: Health nate disparities. To date, these dispari- Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual ties have been largely discussed in Men in the United States, Oxford isolation in the research literature in a University Press: Oxford, UK, 2007.) manner that does not permit a comprehensive examination of these problems,

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About the book, Dr. Garte writes the following: “When it comes to environmental pollution, longevity, infant mor- tality, diet and nutrition, conservation of species, and many other human health and welfare issues, the human population is doing great. ‘How can this be true?’ you ask. ‘Is this guy an apologist for the right wing, industrial, polluting, corporate pillagers of the Earth?’ Actually I’m not. I’m a professor at GSPH and have been an active participant in environmental and public health related research and practice for 30 years.”

Where We Stand: The Secret History of A Surprising Look at the the War on Cancer Real State of our Planet In early October, GSPH Epidemiology GSPH Visiting Professor of Professor Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, Environmental and Occupational released a new book positing that the Health Seymour Garte, PhD, published war on cancer was first run by leaders Where We Stand: A Surprising Look at of industries that made cancer-causing the Real State of the Planet. Written products and sometimes also profited for the general public and containing from drugs and technologies for find- historical, philosophical, political, and ing and treating the disease. Filled with scientific treatments of the global compelling personalities and never- progress that has been made in the before-revealed information, The Secret environment, public health, and quality History of the War on Cancer shows of life for humanity, the book has a how we began fighting the wrong war uniquely positive and hopeful view- with the wrong weapons against the point, in a sea of depressing and fright- wrong enemies—a legacy that persists ening literature in the field. to this day.

The book discusses the major public health efforts diverted and distorted for private gain that is about to be reclaimed. The recent launch of green efforts in health care and other busi- nesses provides a vital new public health front that gets rid of known and suspected cancer-causing materials and promotes safer choices. y faculty 15 Winter 2008 1932c3.qxd:Layout 1 4/8/08 9:30 AM Page 16

Centers

Center for Minority Health

To reach out to people who might not In other CMH news, the center was investigator. The Research Center otherwise have routine access to awarded a five-year, $4.8 million of Excellence in Minority Health health care providers, the Center for grant to establish a Research Center Disparities will embed rigorous scien- Minority Health (CMH) presented of Excellence in Minority Health tific research within The Healthy Black the sixth annual “Take a Health Disparities by the National Center Family Project.” Professional to the People Day” on on Minority Health and Health Thursday, September 20, at ten local Disparities, a part of the National barbershops and beauty salons. Teams Institutes of Health (NIH). The new of volunteer physicians, nurses, public multi-year grant positions CMH as a health educators, dentists, and phar- national center of excellence in trans- macists from the University’s Schools lating evidence-based research into of the Health Sciences and Duquesne community-based interventions University School of Nursing, as well designed to prevent disease and as health advocates from across the promote health in Pittsburgh’s city, traveled to the East End, Hill African-American community. District, and Oakland neighborhoods as part of CMH’s novel community “This NIH funding will help our outreach effort to build trust and pro- efforts to improve the translation of vide potentially life-saving information scientific findings into interventions and health screenings needed to pro- that contribute to the elimination of mote health and prevent disease in the racial and ethnic health disparities,” African-American community. said Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, CMH director and the grant’s principal

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Centers News

Center for Public Health Practice The following centers and projects are based in the Center for Public Health Practice:

The Center for Public Health inside and outside the agency and to The non-partisan Pennsylvania Preparedness developed the develop new approaches to dealing Medicaid Policy Center (PMPC) Pennsylvania Public Health Law Bench with day-to-day public health activities. released its Faces of the Pennsylvania Book in cooperation with the In addition, POPHTC has been useful Medicaid Program report in March. Administrative Office of Pennsylvania in problem solving extramural activities The report is an easy-to-understand Courts to help Pennsylvania Courts for our grant and agency, conference and comprehensive look at the address the unprecedented challenges finance and planning, material support, structure and reach of the Medicaid of an age of political unrest, global printing, disseminating best practices, program in the Commonwealth of travel, and emerging biological threats. and supporting projects at the local level. Pennsylvania. With rising health care The bench book provides Pennsylvania Without this partnership these activities costs increasing Medicaid’s role in judges with the critical information might otherwise have not been realized.” Pennsylvania’s health care landscape, they need when presented with public this report makes the intricacies of the health cases. The Pittsburgh Influenza Prevention Medicaid program more accessible to Project (PIPP), funded by a two-year stakeholders and policymakers by Between June and August 2007, the grant from the Centers for Disease providing relevant data, graphs and Pennsylvania Preparedness Leadership Control and Prevention, is evaluating charts, and cutting through the layers Institute trained 51 public health, the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical of complex legislative language. emergency management, emergency interventions against outbreaks of medical, hospital, and public safety influenza in schools and homes. PIPP “Millions of people rely on Medicaid preparedness professionals in prepared- has been working closely with the across the nation. In Pennsylvania ness leadership. These 1,692 hours of Pittsburgh Public Schools and other alone, about 15 percent of the popula- training, with the required team projects, partners to develop influenza prevention tion is enrolled in this health care will help improve the commonwealth’s systems. Among the educational program,” said Judith R. Lave, PhD, Regional Counter-Terrorism Task activities undertaken to inform children PMPC director and chair of the Force’s ability to prepare for and about ways to avoid getting the flu Department of Health Policy and respond to an emergency or disaster. was a poster project called Whack the Management. “Not only will this Flu. Here are a few of the student-drawn report, and the work of the PMPC From March 2006 to March 2007 (the posters from Dilworth Traditional going forward, ensure policymakers HRSA reporting cycle), CPHP’s Academy: and stakeholders are more informed as Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health they debate critical issues about this Training Center (POPHTC) reached program’s future, but it also will help 1,390 public health professionals regular Pennsylvanians gain a greater through a total of 44 trainings utilizing understanding of Medicaid’s scope and Web casts, phone conferences, and breadth.” “live” (classroom or conference) venues. Regarding a subcontract to Faces of the Pennsylvania Medicaid CPHP from the Allegheny County Program provides key national and Department of Health (ACHD), Jo state data on Medicaid compiled from Ann Glad, RN, MPH, epidemiology multiple sources, including the manager, Environmental Capacity Pennsylvania Department of Public Building Project, ACHD, said, “The Welfare. It also includes a county-by- value of this partnership [with county look at the number and type of POPHTC] cannot be overstated. people covered as well as quotes from POPHTC trainings helped link pro- some of those people describing their gram staff to other disciplines both experiences with Medicaid.

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Everyone at GSPH would like to extend a warm thank you to the people and organizations named on the following pages, each of whom made a contribution to GSPH in fiscal year 2007 (July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007). Philanthropists like these are vital to our ability to enhance our educational, research, and practice opportunities and compete for the best and brightest students and faculty.

We would like to add your name to this list next year, so consider making a contribution to GSPH today. It’s as easy as calling 412-624-5639 or visiting www.giveto.pitt.edu.

Individuals John P. Surma Jr. & Robin E. Grubs, MS ’91, PhD ’02 & Elizabeth Lindsay Surma, MPH ’81 Roy R. Clark $10,000 and more Evelyn Oshinsky Talbott, MPH ’70, DrPH ’75 Floyd Cogley Jr., MPH ’70 Dr. Jeanne Elaine Zborowski, PhD ’00 & Joanne Marie Coolen, MPH ’80 Elsie Rita Broussard, MD, MPH ’62, DrPH ’65 Ronald W. Zborowski Margaret E. Cooper, MS ’96 Dr. Thomas P. Detre Patrick Joseph Cummings, MSHyg ’80, William T. Green Jr., MD, MBA, MPH ’01 & $500 - $999 ScDHyg ’86 Dorothy W. Lee Green Roswell George Daniels, DrPH ’60 Carol Tsu Ho & Dr. Monto Ho Joseph Paul Costantino III, MPH ’74, DrPH ’76 Miss Helen Thaw Davis, MHA ’92 David P. Hunter, MPH ’70 Sharon D’Orsie, DS, ScDHyg ’70, DSc ’74 Hee Kyung Hong, MS ’93 & Janice Scully Dorman, MSHyg ’81, PhD ’83 & William P. Follansbee, MD James John Dignam, MSHyg ’90, PhD ’94 Ronald E. LaPorte, PhD, MSHyg ’80 Dr. David John Jones, MPH ’65 Sharyne M. Donfield, PhD ’84 David A. Tepper Renee T. Juhl, PharmD & Randy P. Juhl, PhD David William Doupe, MPH ’98 Yuling L. Wei & Donald P. Wei Candace Marie Kammerer, PhD Meryl H. Karol, PhD & Paul J. Karol, PhD Dr. Gary E. Eddey, MSHyg ’78 $5,000 - $9,999 Elizabeth Ann Kaye, MPH ’80, PhD ’84 M. Jane Burgett Ehrke, MS ’64 Donald Bruce Kirchner, MD, MPH ’86 Belinda Stein Eichler, MSHyg ’69 Eliese S. Cutler Andrea Marie Kriska, PhD ’88 Roberta K. Erlwein, MPH ’84 Kenneth Philip Defurio Katherine Kronenberg George Matthew Evonich Melissa Strahl & Dr. Stuart D. Strahl Stuart Kuller, DDS Terrance P. Felegie, MSHyg ’79 & Kim Sutton Tyrrell, MPH ’83, DrPH ’86 Dr. Russell Evan Morgan Jr., MSHyg ’70 Jaxqueline S. Felegie $1,000 - $4,999 William E. Rinehart, MPH ’58, ScDHyg ’62 Dr. Thomas P. Foley Jr. Dr. A. Robert Schnatter, MSHyg ’79 Dr. Robert W. Ford Harry Cagin Margaret C. McDonald, PhD ’93 & Lois B Gaffney Howard A. Cohen, MD, FACC, FSCAI Russell G. Schuh, EdD Tammy Wilson Gaffney, MSHyg ’89 James L. Craig, MD, MPH ’63 & Dr. Ravi Kumar Sharma Marie M. Ganassi & Floyd R. Ganassi Roberta A. Craig Thomas Edward Terrill, PhD, MPH ’63 Mary Ganguli, MD, MPH ’81 Sheryl F. Kelsey, PhD & George T. Duncan, PhD Captain Joseph Garcia Jr., MPH ’71 Edgar Newton Duncan, PhD, MSHyg ’56 & $100 - $499 Robert Richard Geddis, MSHyg ’73 Lauraine T. Duncan Dr. Douglas Harvey Adams, MPH ’92 Lynn Konchak Giljahn, MPH ’83 Russellyn Sandra Carruth, Esq. & Lavida A. Robinson-Allen, MSHyg ’73 & Michael Gordon, MPH ’92 & Bernard D. Goldstein, MD Ernest A. Allen Cathy Rupp Gordon, Esq. Bernard M. Halpern* Leonard S. Anthony, MSHyg ’67 Carl Lewis Granlund, MSHyg ’84 William Richard Holman, MPH ’79 Bonnie Bantley Anton & Phalguni Gupta, PhD Alice B. Kuller & Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH Richard Paul Anton, Esq. Susan Gurrentz Robert C. Levin Sherri Joye Bale, MSHyg ’81, PhD ’84 Valerie Jean Hackenberg, MPH ’78 Henry Hannen Liu, MD, MPH ’78, PhD ’82 Mark Allen Barath, MSHyg ’77 Daryl Tarquinio Haggart Joanne F. McVay, MPH ’75, DrPH ’84 Dorothy J. Becker, MD Dr. Dorothy Marcic Hai, MPH ’75 & Dr. William J. McVay Patricia G. Berman & Sanford S. Berman Carolyn Cook Handa, MPH ’70 Lois G. Michaels, MSHyg ’63 & Dr. Bernard Joseph Bernacki, MPH ’77 & Maurice Perry Handel, MPH ’74 Milton Meyer Michaels, MD Mary Bernacki Mary Skinner Hankey, MSHyg ’65 & Patricia A. Orchard & Margaret Nyland Berry, MSHyg ’86 Dr. Benjamin Franklin Hankey, MSHyg ’65, Trevor J. Orchard, MD, MMedSci Charles Michael Blackwood, MPH ’80 MSHyg ’70 Sylvia F. Pan Morrie K. Blumberg Frances Stonebraker Hardic, MSHyg ’73 John Robert Pekarsky, MPH ’76 Gabriel John Bober, MPH ’69 Dr. Mardjohan Hardjasudarma, MSHyg ’72 Sidney Pell, PhD ’56 Norton Alexander Bowler, MPH ’73 Gail Forwood Harger, ’08 Thomas Matthew Priselac, MPH ’75 Virginia M. Bowman, MPH ’76 Dr. Lynne Mazella Haverkos, MPH ’81 & Lirong Qu, MD, PhD ’94 Barbara Bradfield Harry W. Haverkos, MD Joanne N. Ricci & Joe L. Brown Sherry Marks Hellman, MSHyg ’75 & EdMHAd Michael Ricci, PhD David M. Burstin Martin Gary Hellman, MD Aquino M. Rossi Carl John Caspersen, PhD, MPH ’80 Donald Ainslie Henderson, MD Russell Rule Rycheck, MD, MPH ’59, DrPH ’65 James Edward Cassidy, MPH ’72 Bruce A. Hertig, ScD, MPH ’57, DrPH ’60 & Joan W. Rycheck Anita Marie Caufield, MHA ’84 Fumei Huang, MSHyg ’70 & Robert E. Schoen, MD, MPH ’94 Hui Cen, ScDHyg ’91 Jui-Tien Huang, PhD Dr. Anthony Carl Segreti, MSHyg ’75 Virginia Marie Dato, MD & Albert Huen, ScDHyg ’70, ScDHyg ’72 Meyer Sonis, MD Dr. Michael Chancellor Constance Mae Husman, MSHyg ’74

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Honor Roll of Donors

Brian Roger Jacob, MA ’86 Douglas Marion Potter, MS ’98 & Gifts Up to $99 Terrence William Jezowski, MSHyg ’73 Margaret A. Potter, Esq. Marilyn S. Johnstone & Graham Findlay Fred Martin Rankin III, MPH ’78 Alka Mittal Agarwal, MPH ’78 & Johnstone, MD John Joseph Razem, MPH ’71 Pawan Kumar Agarwal, PhD Dr. Judith Auld Kantor, MSHyg ’67 Dr. Terry Eugene Reed, MPH ’82 Madalon O’Rawe Amenta, RN, Daniel Keleti, MD Terresa Joann Ricci-Ott, MSHyg ’85 MPH ’68, DrPH ’78 Catherine Mary Kimmel, MSHyg ’69 Donna Ellen Rinaldo & Ralph Richard Angelo, MPH ’75 James Lee King, MPH ’75 Dr. Charles R. Rinaldo Jr. Cynthia Ann Steiner, MSHyg ’83 & Wade Paul Kirstein, MPH ’73 Charles H. Rittle Jr., MPH ’03 Vincent C. Arena Jr., MSHyg ’78, PhD ’85 Susan Wenonah Koch, MSHyg ’85 Joyce Robinson Michael Robert Ashton, MD, MPH ’99 Andrea Mary Labik, DS, ScDHyg ’80 Jane Roesch Edwin B. Augustin, MPH ’57 John Marion Lachin III, ScDHyg ’72 Ryan L. Minster & Anthony E. Roscoe Frani M. Averbach, MPH ’83 Russell D. Larsen, PhD, MPH ’91 John Edward Ross, MSHyg ’59 Ruth Ann Azeredo, MPH ’79 Sharon M. Lawlor Barbara M. Rutecki, MPH ’97 Suzanne Haddad Baktash, MPH ’77 & Arthur A. LeGasse, MSHyg ’64 Debra Kaye Samuels & Neal Elliott Samuels Cyrus Baktash, PhD Dr. Edith Leyasmeyer, MPH ’61 & Nancy Armistead Schanzlin, MPH ’79 Jerome Irwin Barancik, ScDHyg ’72 Archibald I. Leyasmeyer Matthew James Schott Jr., MSHyg ’90 Theodore R. Baranik, MSHyg ’61 Marianne Lotito, MS ’98 Dr. Roger Frederick Sembrat, MSHyg ’69 Anita Colasante Barkin, DrPH ’04 David Jacob Magner, MSHyg ’83 & Donald J. Siegle, MPH ’77 Kimberly Karen Barlow Judith A. Magner Rita M. Silvestri Tingle C. Barnes, MSHyg ’71 & Catherine L. Malloy, MPH ’74, DrPH ’80 Lee Ann Sinagoga, MSHyg ’83 Richard Dilworth Barnes Dr. Amarjit S. Manocha Rhea Rose Singsen, MPH ’79 John Patrick Barry, DSc ’76 Gary Martin Marsh, MSHyg ’74, PhD ’77 & Thomas Joseph Songer, MPH ’86, PhD ’90 Carolyn Marie Beck, MPH ’79 Valerie Marsh Clarence Stanley Jr., MSHyg ’85 Peggy E. Lowenstein & Steven H. Berez Dr. Robert Henley Martsolf, MPH ’03 Dr. Arlene Rupert Summerhill, MSHyg ’61 Suzanne Bertera, PhD ’01 James J. Mayer, MPH ’52 Ann Degraw Swaim Dr. Mohandas Bhat, MPH ’68 Dr. Craig Franklin McBeth, MSHyg ’81 George Crissman Tarr, MSHyg ’72, DSc ’75 Deborah M. Biernesser Catherine Carson McCarty, PhD ’93 & Mary S. Tranchine & James E. Tranchine Anne Simon Blank, MSHyg ’79 Daniel J. McCarty, PhD ’95 Colonel James W. Vallandingham, MPH ’73 Charlotte G. Bluestone Judith McConnaha & Wendell R. McConnaha Walter S. Van Dyke, MPH ’75 Ann Happ Boldt, MS ’89 Anne McConnel & William O. McConnel John Charles Watson, MD, MPH ’86 Karen Lynn Borosky, MHA ’84 J. Gary McHugh, DMD & Francoise Monique Vercruysse-Watson, MD Joy Marie Brands, MPH ’66 Shirley Ann McIlvried, MPH ’83 Carol Mancini Vira, MSHyg ’72, ScDHyg ’82 William David Brant, MSHyg ’76 Arlene Merryman & Mulchand Damji Vira Morton Edward Braunstein, MPH ’76 Charles Thomas Mitchell Sr., MPH ’70 Janet L. Vukotich & Charles Joseph Vukotich Jr. Ruth Elizabeth Brennan, ScDHygY ’66 Helen Ludwig Morgan Seth C. Warren Ronette Russell Briefel, MPH ’76, DrPH ’82 Matthew Francis Muldoon, MD, MPH ’94 Michael C. Waters, MSHyg ’67 Luann Lynn Brink, MPH ’96, PhD ’98 Patricia Ann Murphy, MPH ’81, PhD ’86 Susanne C. Wean Allen Brodsky, ScDHyg ’66 Dr. Daniel Robert Neuspiel, MPH ’84 Bruce C. Weston Mary T. Byrnes Joseph A. O’Leary, MPH ’74 Dr. Mary H. Whitman, MSHyg ’81 & Katherine M. Calcagno, MPH ’76 Lawrence Steven Oresick, MSHyg ’77 Matthew Whitman Robert C. Campbell, MSHyg ’83 Jeannette South-Paul, MD & Joanne Ross Wilder, Esq. & Phylis G. Caplan & Walter D. Caplan Michael D. Paul, MD Dr. Bruce Lord Wilder Janis Ruth Carey George A. Pavlic John Arthur Wilson, MSHyg ’65 & James Howard Chapman, MPH ’73 Karen Sturgeon Peterson, MPH ’70 Margaretta Finley Wilson Diego Gabriel Chaves-Gnecco, MD, MPH ’00 Dr. Theodore Andre Petti, MPH ’84 & Paul Marion Winkler, MPH ’81 G. Gee Chin, MPH ’74 Mary Newman Petti, PhD Robert Peter Wise, MPH ’74 Anuradha Bhaskar Chittenden, MS ’94 Amy Jo Luginbuhl Phelps, PhD ’97 Walker Gill Wylie, MPH ’84 Malcolm M. Clemens, MSHyg ’61 James B. Pieffer, MHA ’86 Rex Tamayo Yang, MPH ’95 Jill E. Cobb & Frank C. Cobb Dr. Bruce Pitt Dr. Theodore Leon Yarboro, MPH ’79 Joseph Francis Collins, MSHyg ’71, DSc ’74 Dr. Donald David Pogoloff, MSHyg ’73 Ying Cheung Yee, PhD, MSHyg ’85, PhD ’96 Yvette Perry Conley, MS ’93, PhD ’99 Dr. Therese Irene Poirier, MPH ’85 Marsha Marie Zellem, MPH ’76 Edward Harry Conrad, MSHyg ’80 Xinyu Zhu, MS ’00 Janice Valentine Corriden, MSHyg ’68 Tina Costacou Jill Beechan Crawford, MHA ’91 Joyce Ann D’Antonio, MSHyg ’83, PhD ’88 Student Award Established in 2007 Wanju S. Dai, DrPH ’82 Stanley T. Danowski, MPH ’85 William T. Green Jr., MD, MBA, (MPH ’01), established the William T. Sara R. Davidson & Edgar M. Davidson Green Jr. Award in Public Health Studies to support student-initiated Thomas J. Davies projects that otherwise might not be realized. The award is competitive, based Dr. Sigismond Deutscher, MPH ’64 Ricardo John Dibagno, MHA ’88 on a student essay describing the project to be funded, along with a faculty John Robert Dickinson, DDS, MSHyg ’69 letter of support. Dr. Green knows that the opportunity to participate in Marcia Zito Dodge, MSHyg ’73 Jean Donatelli enhanced academic and personal experiences will help to determine how E. Joseph Duckett, MPH ’70 effective students are as public health professionals. Seth Robert Eaton, MD, MPH ’77

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Andrea Solomon Eller & Christina Louise Wilds, MPH ’97, Samuel Cary Morris, ScDHyg ’73 Andrew W. Eller, MD DrPH ’06 & A. Stonewall Jackson Clyde Eugene Moss, MSHyg ’72 & Kimberlee Schnebel Evert, MPH ’88 & Carol Ann Jenkins, MHA ’89 Nancy Jane Moss Robert Evert Jay Vaughn Jensen, MPH ’73 Clarita Ann Mrena, MPH ’78 Trena Marie Ezzati-Rice, MSHyg ’77 Edward Benjamin Jones, MPH ’56 Joseph A. Mroziak Jr. John Joseph Fabrizio, MPH ’73 Sylvester Wynn Jones, MPH ’73, MPH ’76 Monica Lee Mullen, MPH ’94 Zheng Fan Janet K. Josimovich, MPH ’75 Brian Peter Stevenson Murphy, DrPH ’01 Marsha Reicher Feldstein & Stephen Eric Katch, MHA ’97 Donald Musa, DrPH ’05 Jack G. Feldstein Eva Keleti Mary B. Nasim Jeffrey Scott Ferguson, MSHyg ’84, Annette C. Stemhagen, MPH ’75, Donna Grace Nativio, PhD, MSHyg ’67 PhD ’88 DrPH ’82 & William R. Kendall, Esq. Deborah Brooks Nelson, PhD ’98 & Denise Ferris, MPH ’85, DrPH ’89 Keith Curtis Kerns, MSHyg ’71 Michael Nelson Dr. Margaret McConnell Figgins, MPH ’72 Deborah Mary Ketterer, MSHyg ’76 Michael Alexander Nescot, MHA ’89 & David F. Figgins Miss Iris M. Kiem, MPH ’55 Mary Patricia Nowalk, RD, Elizabeth A. Finegold & Alan H. Finegold Janet Louise Kilhefner, MPH ’87 MSHyg ’81, PhD ’93 Marcella L. Finegold Wendy Colleen King, PhD ’04 Celia Marie O’Leary, MPH ’81 Shannon J. Fitzgerald, PhD ’00 Laura Suzanne Kinzel Beulah N. O’Toole Dr. Edward C. Foley, MPH ’88 Kevin Edward Kip, PhD ’98 Margaret O’Toole, MHA ’94 Tracy Zogran Fox, MPH ’82 Stephanie L. Kip Ruth Obernauer & Somer Obernauer Mark A. Fragapane Susan Elizabeth Kladny, MS ’00 Lorraine Garratt Ogden, MS ’96 Florence Golomb Fralin, MPH ’64 Spyros D. Kominos, ScDHyg ’68 Emery Joseph Ollis Davida Sue Fromm, PhD John Raymond Kominsky, MSHyg ’73 Claire L. Orringer Sally Mautino Galecki, MHA ’92 & Anna Marie Kraft, MSHyg ’68 Jane Fleming Owens, DrPH ’89 Timothy Galecki Harvey R. Kronzek David Simpson Palmer, MSHyg ’70 Billy Jack Garner, MSHyg ’66 Thomas John Kuss, MSHyg ’89 Mary Ann Papa, MHA ’85 Kay Gartner, MPH ’91 Daniel Thomas Lackland, DrPH ’90 Kenneth D. Patrene, MSHyg ’80 Kenneth Leon Garver, MD, PhD ’75 Kenneth James Lampert, MD, MPH ’65 MSHyg ’89 Elizabeth Anne Gettig Sylvia Ziff Landay Gale Evans Pearson, RN, MPH ’90 Dr. Herman Jones Gibb, MPH ’74 Daniel Jay Landis, MPH ’76 Dr. Valerie P. Pendley & Harold Glick, MD Bruce C. Landman Dr. Charles E. Pendley Ronda Hoechstetter Glick Judith R. Lave, PhD Carole Lindley Perry, PhD, MPH ’82 & Nita Wendy Glickman, MPH ’77 & Tzuo Yan Lee, MPH ’73 John Howard Perry Lawrence Theodore Glickman, MPH ’75, Kathleen Ann Leone, MPH ’94 Marcia Needleman Persin, MPH ’74 DrPH ’77 Lisa L. Leung, MHA ’85 Robert Warner Peters, MPH ’72 Betty Mae Goodman-Klein, MSHyg ’85 Elliott Ian Levenson, Esq. Harding W. Peterson Manimalha Balasubramani & Todd Levenson Bruce R. Pluta, MSHyg ’82 Balasubramani K. Goundappa Michael H. Levi, DS, ScDHyg ’85 Lisa Hoffman Rabinowitz, MHA ’88 & Captain Andre Michael Greedan, MPH ’73 Rosanne Mandel Levine, MPH ’83 Robert Morris Rabinowitz Nancy Romer Green, MPH ’67 & Clifford B. Levine Dr. Marilyn Radke, MPH ’77 & Dana S. Green & Richard L. Green, MD Carol Lippert Vincent James Radke, MPH ’77 Patrick H. Gurrentz Frank Andrew Lukez, MD, MPH ’58 Charles James Rakaczky, MHA ’88 Mary Kathryn Zaphyr Hagy, MSHyg ’82 Diane Lu Luo, MSHyg ’92 & Li Luo, PhD Catherine S. Rees, MSHyg ’81 & Reed Errol Hall, MSHyg ’74 Ella Elizabeth Lyons, MSHyg ’86 Robert E. Rees Lisa Sterry Hamel, MS ’91 Dr. Lee R. Mandel, MPH ’98 Frank H. Reid, MSHyg ’63 Martha Louise Hansotte, MPH ’84 Steven Corey Marcus, PhD ’98 Todd A. Reinhart Patricia H. Harper, MSHyg ’84 Diane D’Amico Marks Shirley Eckroth Remis, MPH ’71 Todd Sterling Harwell, MPH ’93 Mary Rose Martinelli, MSHyg ’80 Regina Render Shannon P. Hatch Barbara L. Massoudi, MPH ’90, PhD ’94 Shalini Cynthia Reshmi, MS ’96, PhD ’05 Marilyn Axelson Hayes, MPH ’71 Brian Keith Mathias, MPH ’83 Paul Richard Reynolds Barbara Darrow Hays, MPH ’76 & Tara Cox Matise, MS ’88, PhD ’92 Paul Thomas Ricci, MS ’01 Dr. Samuel P. Hays Professor Francis M. Maxin, MPH ’75 Kristi Marie Riccio, MPH ’02 Alan L. Herman, MSHyg ’85 Janet Mayernik, MSHyg ’83, ScDHyg ’88 Mark Charles Roberts, MSHyg ’74 Sam Herskovitz Carol Lynn McAllister, PhD Jay F. Rockman, MSHyg ’75 Patrick N. Hodge, MPH ’77 & Kay McCandless, MPH ’75 Margaret Mitchell Roll, MPH ’83 Irene Clemente Hodge Mary Colleen McCann, MPH ’64 Robert S. Rosenthal, MSHyg ’73 Leah Bruecker Hoechstetter, MS ’87 Eileen McGinn, MPH ’73 David T. Rowe, PhD William L. Hoffman Barbara Sippel McGuinness, MSHyg ’71 Joanne Gorenflo Samuels, MPH ’64 Dr. Cynthia M. Holland-Hall, MPH ’00 M. Ursula McKenzie, MPH ’97 Judith Ann Sangl, MPH ’78 B. Griffith Holmes, MSHyg ’81 Gina Means & Daniel J. Means Veronica Vera Sansing Kenneth P. Homer Sr. Anne R. Medsger, MSHyg ’81 & Howell Crawford Sasser Jr., PhD ’99 Gregory G. Homish, PhD ’03 & Thomas A. Medsger Jr., MD David Alan Savitz, PhD ’82 D. Lynn Homish Robert John Melder, MSHyg ’80, Janet Schindler John William Horm, MSHyg ’72 ScDHyg ’85 & Diane Selvaggio Melder Louise Platt Schulhof Dr. Xiao-Li Huang Rodger E. Mendenhall, MSHyg ’59 Rose Mary Pease Schulz Christopher M. Hughes, MD Mary Ann Britton Mihok, MSHyg ’66 Marian Sefko-Thallner, MHA ’84 Martha Louise Hunter, Esq., MPH ’79 Robert Desle Miller, MSHyg ’75 Dr. Akira Sekikawa, MPH ’96 & Erick K. Ishii, PhD ’94 Thomas Larry Montgomery, MSHyg ’66, Yoko Sekikawa Chung Wha Lee Iyengar, MS ’59 ScDHyg ’69 Frank Sellers Jr., PhD, MPH ’65

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Student Award Established Faith Selzer, PhD ’99 Joan Colter Wolfson & Jerome H. Constance W. Seymour, MPH ’03 Wolfson, MD in 2007 Michael Dustin Shankle, MPH ’96 Francis X. Worden, MSHyg ’59 Dr. Sofia Shekhter-Levin Albert James Wurm, MPH ’78 Upon the retirement of Russell Rule Rycheck Siao Mei Shick, MPH ’96 Mary Ann Wuyscik, MPH ’74 (MPH ’59, DrPH ’65), a group of his Arlene Summerhill Shultz, MSHyg ’59* Xiaoying Yin, MS ’93 friends, family, and colleagues established H. Charles Shultz, EdD Huanyu Chen, PhD ’07 & Dr. Wen Zhou Patricia L. Siger & Alan L. Siger the Russell Rule Rycheck Award for a Rhoda Finn Sikov & Corporations and Foundations Promising Public Health Student in his Seymour A. Sikov, Esq. honor. Through a competitive process, Jerrold Silver, MPH ’76 & Adrienne & Milton Porter Ina Mirow Silver Charitable Foundation MPH students apply for the Rycheck Rosemary C. Slack, MHA ’92 Alzheimer’s Association Award for expenses such as travel to a Lisa Sterrett Sloan, MHA ’92 American Cancer Society, Inc. public health conference, membership in a Zili Sloboda American Diabetes Association Robert Joseph Smith, MPH ’73 American Heart Association professional organization, textbooks, Dr. Jo Marie Ellen Smolec, MSHyg ’77 American Physiological Society courses scientific writing, or special Lee A. Sokolitz, MPH ’73 Antiques of Shadyside research projects. Dr. Rycheck has been Ellen B. Sowry, MS ’00 & Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, PC part of the Department of Epidemiology James E. Sowry, MD Bentz Law Firm PC Catherine S. Stainton Brandywine Health Foundation for 42 years, first as a student, then as a Michael Steich Brothers Brothers Foundation faculty member. Betty E. Stern Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney, PC Jane Louise Stevens, MPH ’68 Caterpillar Foundation Susan Diann Stranahan, DrPH ’87 Centers for Healthy Hearts & Souls Dr. Elsa Siulc Strotmeyer, MPH ’97 & The Children’s Institute Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP Stephen J. Strotmeyer Jr., MPH ’98 ComMHAity Care Behavioral Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Bonna Moore Sullivan, PhD Health Organization Theta Sorority, Inc. Constance Fox Sullivan, MSHyg ’76 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Pittsburgh Associates Robert Blane Swinkola, MSHyg ’71 DSF Charitable Foundation The Pittsburgh Foundation & Linda Swinkola Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC Pittsburgh Pirates Marcel Michael Szal, MSHyg ’81 The Ellison Medical Foundation POISE Foundation Ngoc Tang Entergy Corporation Pottstown Area Health & Betsy Hampford Taylor, MHA ’90 ExxonMobil Foundation Wellness Foundation Dr. Louise Davis Teel, MSHyg ’76 The Foster Charitable Trust The Procter & Gamble Fund Edward Teeple Jr., MPH ’07 Gateway Health Plan, Inc. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Beverly Ann Tenenholz, MSHyg ’81 GE Foundation The Roy A. Hunt Foundation Nancy Knowlson Thorne, MPH ’92 Gidas-Thompson’s Flowers Staff of The William Jeanes Barbara Tisherman GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Memorial Library Thomas Frederick Tomb, MSHyg ’71 Gullifty’s Restaurant Strategy One, Inc. John Franco Toso, MD, MSHyg ’88 & Vira I. Heinz Endowment Thomson Rhodes & Cowie Cindy Toso Heritage Valley Health System, Inc. UGI Corporation Elaine Bevevino Trevey, MSHyg ’63 Highmark Caring Foundation United Way of Allegheny County Evelyn H. Trkula Howard Heinz Endowment UPMC Presbyterian Hospital Henry John Trochimowicz, ScDHyg ’71 & Human Frontier Science VA Cooperative Studies Program Jane Kaszowicz Trochimowicz Program Organization Venture Outdoors Walter Anthony Trommelen Jr., MPH ’67 Jewish Healthcare Foundation Veralight, Inc. Marie Elizabeth Twal, DrPH ’98 of Pittsburgh William Jeanes Memorial Library Phyllis Shuman Tyzenhouse, MSHyg ’70, Johnson & Johnson Board of Directors DrPH ’80 Kevin J. Mossier Foundation Windham Winery Dr. Kenneth A. Unice, MSHyg ’72 Maggie & Stella’s Cards and Gifts World Federalist Association Charles Richard Vargo, MHA ’84 & Markel Schafer & Goldman WPAHS Corporate/Hospital Finance Joyce C. Vargo Matis Baum Rizza O’Connor Dr. Mahadeo Prasad Verma, MPH ’66 McGolf Chau Viet Vo, MHA ’90 McIntyre, Hartye, & Schmitt Daniel Thaddeus Waruszewski, MSHyg ’77 The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh Matthew Scott Weaver Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck Diane Sze Wei & Maurice Wei Mon Valley Education Consortium Karen Ann Welsh NAIMAThe National Society of Genetic Christy M. Wenger, MHA ’98 Counselors Sharon Louise Wenger, MPH ’73, PhD ’76 Needlepoint & Counter Point Christine Annette Wensel, MS ’86 North Penn ComMHAity Dennis Earl Wert, MSHyg ’76 Health Foundation Carol S. Williams Ophthalmic Research Associates, Christine L. Wilson Duclos, MPH ’77 Incorporated Warren Winkelstein Jr. Owl Cleaners Catherine Wirth Pew Charitable Trusts Warren A. Witzmann, MSHyg ’62 The Pfizer Foundation, Inc.

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in June 2007. The mission of the ReSET Center is to reduce tobacco exposure regionally, nationally, and globally through research and educa- < The Center for Minority Health hosted An Evening tion. The ReSET Center is chaired by of Casual Elegance to kick off a fundraising GSPH Dean Donald S. Burke, MD, campaign for its Healthy Black Family Project. and is co-chaired by Steven Shapiro, CMH was awarded a challenge grant from the DSF Charitable Foundation, which pledged a $1.50 MD, chairman of the Department of match for every dollar raised, up to $1 million, for Medicine at the University and Ronald a total possible grant from DSF of $1.5 million. B. Herberman, MD, founding director health promotion and disease prevention of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer intervention designed to reduce and Convocation Institute. The executive director of Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, president prevent diabetes and hypertension in ReSET is Stephanie R. Land, PhD, and CEO of CARE USA, was the Pittsburgh’s African-American community. research assistant professor of speaker at the 2007 GSPH convocation Interventions include physical activity, biostatistics at GSPH. on April 28, 2007. She delivered a nutrition education, smoking cessation, passionate address on global public stress management, and self-manage- In December, ReSET accepted applica- health. With programs in some 70 ment of chronic disease. To date, more tions from Pitt students and faculty for countries, CARE helps people in poor than 6,000 people have enrolled in pilot grants in tobacco research and communities expand the control they the program. control. The funding is for pilot or have over their own lives to advance small projects that are not likely to be positive, enduring social change. funded by existing extramural programs. The ReSET Pilot Program provides seed money, on a short-term basis, to Public Health support research activities which represent a first step towards the Policy: Smoking pursuit of more comprehensive funding Clearing the Smoke in Pennsylvania: A opportunities. Call to Action for the Graduate School of Public Health was held on April 20, 2007. This day of presentations led to < the formation of the Reduce Smoking An Evening of From left: William Strickland, president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Nicholas and Exposure to Tobacco (ReSET) Casual Elegance Beldecos, executive director of the DSF Charitable Center at the University of Pittsburgh Foundation, GSPH Dean Donald Burke, and To support the further development Stephen B. Thomas, director of the Center for and sustainability of The Healthy Black Minority Health Family Project (HBFP), the Center for Minority Health initiated a $1 million fundraising campaign with a gala event on October 6, 2007. The DSF Charitable Foundation, under a challenge grant, will provide a 150 percent match for every dollar raised for the HBFP. The HBFP is an innovative community-based

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C.C. Li Memorial The Jay L. Foster Memorial Lecture Lectures on Alzheimer’s Disease The Department of Human Genetics The family of the late Jay L. Foster of Medicine, and the director of the hosted the 4th Annual C.C. Li established this memorial lecture series Education Core at the Indiana Memorial Lecture on April 27, 2007. to educate Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Her lec- Dr. Newton E. Morton, senior profes- family ture, titled “Caring and Coping: Issues sorial fellow in human genetics, members, in Late-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease,” University of Southampton, presented care- focused on strategies for caregivers. the lecture, “The Two Faces of givers, Population Genetics.” and oth- The scientific lecture, “Do Anti- ers who Dementia Drugs Really Work? are faced Effectiveness of Cholinesterase with the Inhibitors, Memantine, and daily Antipsychotics,” was presented by Lon

< struggle S. Schneider, MD, professor of psychia- Lon S. Schneider, MD of dealing try and neurology at the University of with Alzheimer’s disease. From their Southern California Keck School of own experience, they learned that Medicine and professor of gerontology knowledge about the illness is an at the USC Leonard Davis School of important factor in coping with its Gerontology on November 12. effects on family and friends, especially the pain of watching a loved one decline.

For the first five years of its existence, the annual Foster Lectures—one for the lay community and one for the scientific and medical communities—were delivered on the same day by the same speaker. For the first time in 2007, the two lectures were separated, with the community lecture in the spring or summer and the scientific lecture in the fall. In addition, the Foster family gen- erously agreed to fund the series for an additional five years.

The community lecture was delivered on July 17 by Mary Guerriero Austrom, PhD, the Wesley P. Martin

Professor of Alzheimer Disease < Attendees at the scientific lecture, top, Education in the Department of and the community lecture, above. Psychiatry, Indiana University School

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The John C. Cutler Global Health Lecture Willard Cates Jr., MD, MPH, president of research for Family Health International, a leading nonprofit international public health organization that manages research and field activities in more than 70 countries, gave the fourth annual Cutler Lecture on November 27. The lecture, titled Provost’s Inaugural Lecture for “Sexual Health and Personal Choices: John Cutler’s Quiet Legacy,” explored the UPMC-Jonas Salk Chair in the transition of family planning as a Global Health public health field to the broader con- text of reproductive health, including GSPH Dean Donald S. Burke’s lecture, attended by nearly 200 people, including STD and HIV. It examined the role of “Horizons of Responsibility—and Chancellor Mark Nordenberg, Provost contraceptive choice and population Opportunity—in Global Health,” James Maher, Senior Vice Chancellor growth in today’s world and presented marked his official installation as the Arthur Levine, and Peter Salk, the a vision for a broader approach, and first holder of the UPMC-Jonas Salk eldest son of Jonas Salk. paid tribute to the many contributions Chair in Global Health. The lecture to the field by John Cutler and others took place on December 18 in the Dean Burke reviewed his career in at the University of Pittsburgh. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and was global health and presented a “score- card” indicating whether various of his major undertakings met their stated objectives, improved health in the host countries where he worked, and improved health here in the United States.

< Members of the Cutler Lecture Top photo: From left: Peter Salk, Jane Burke, Committee, front row from left: Don Burke, Ruth Levine, Arthur Levine, Elise Cutler, Maggie McDonald, Lois Loren Roth, and Tom Detre. Michels. Back row from left: Michael Dalmat, speaker Ward Cates, Stuart Bottom photo: Members of Dean Burke's family Strall, Don Burke. helped him celebrate after the lecture. From left: Brother-in-law Robert Brownson, sister Ginny Brownson, Dean Burke, wife Jane Burke, son-in-law Sean Kerstetter, and daughter Jessica Burke.

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APHA/ASPH Reception Mark Your Calendar The GSPH Alumni Reception at the American College of Healthcare Executives Congress on Healthcare

< Leadership will take place on GSPH Dean Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at the Don Burke chats with Hyatt Regency Chicago. Join faculty alumna and alumni for cocktails and hors Marlene Lugg, d’oeuvres from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in DrPH, at the GSPH Skyway 265. reception at the American Public The next C.C. Li Memorial Lecture Health will take place on Friday, April 4, Association annual 2008, noon – 1:00 p.m., A115 meeting in Crabtree. The speaker will be Robert Washington, DC C. Elston, PhD, director of the

Division of Genetic Epidemiology at < Case Western Reserve University. The reception Convocation 2008 will take place on brings together GSPH alumni, Sunday, April 27. faculty, students, and The next Foster Community Lecture staff. The next will be held on Friday, May 16, APHA Annual 2008, at 1 p.m. at Rodef Shalom Meeting will take place in Congregation in Pittsburgh. The San Diego speaker is Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, October 25-29, 2008. associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. The lec- ACHE Reception ture is free and open to the public.

< GSPH alumnae Diane Howard, PhD, (left) and Didyou Diane Peterson, MPH, enjoy the alumni know... reception at the American All lectures mentioned on College of this page can be viewed Healthcare Executives online for free at meeting in www.publichealth.pitt.edu/ New Orleans. lecturearchive.?

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Mark Your Calendar

Dean’s Day C.C. Li Memorial Lecture Friday, March 7, 2008, GSPH Community Commons Friday, April 4, 2008, noon – 1 p.m., A115 Crabtree Hall GSPH’s annual showcase of student research and practice The speaker will be Robert C. Elston, PhD, director, projects will culminate in an awards presentation. For more Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Case Western information, visit www.publichealth.pitt.edu and click Reserve University. on Events. National Public Health Week American College of Healthcare Executives April 7-11, 2008 Alumni Reception The theme is Climate Change: Our Health in the Balance Tuesday, March 11, 2008, Hyatt Regency, Chicago Anne C. Sonis Lecture In conjunction with the ACHE annual meeting. Meeting Thursday, April 17, 2008, noon – 1 p.m., Room S120 registration is not required for reception attendance. SBTWR; reception, 1 – 2:30 p.m., S100A BST For more information and to RSVP, visit Karen Davis, PhD, president of the Commonwealth Fund, www.publichealth.pitt.edu/ACHE2008. will present a lecture titled, “Health Care: Solutions University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Without Borders.” For more information, visit Winter Academy www.crhc.pitt.edu. Saturday, March 15, 2008, Phoenix Alumni Dinner Dean Burke will be making a presentation on global health. Saturday, April 26, 2008, 4 p.m., For more information, visit www.winteracademy.pitt.edu. Pittsburgh Athletic Association Smoke-Free South Side Celebration Join us for this festive celebration which will include Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 4 -6:30 p.m., the presentation of alumni awards and welcoming our Club Café, 56 South 12th Street graduates as the newest members of the GSPH Sponsored by the Reduce Smoking and Exposure to Alumni Association. Tobacco (ReSET) Center, this unique event will combine GSPH Convocation information on tobacco control with a tasting of locally Sunday, April 27, 2008, 5 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall brewed beer. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. To sign up, visit www.publichealth.pitt.edu and click on Events.

NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE Graduate School of Public Health PAID A600 Crabtree Hall PITTSBURGH, PA PERMIT NO. 511 130 DeSoto Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261