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Fall 2016 Issue #3

MSPH E-MailmanAlumni Newsletter by alumni for alumni

Dr. Linda Fried, a leader in geriatric INSIDE THIS ISSUE: medicine and public health (and one of my personal heroes), had assumed • Letter from the Alumni Board the Deanship at Mailman. Energized President Helen K. Edelberg, by meeting her at an alumni event MD, MPH ’02, FACP...... Pg 1 in Philadelphia, I decided to pursue • Committee Updates...... Pg 2-3 a position on the Mailman Alumni Association Board. • Alumni Profile...... Pg 4-5 • Mailman visit to Cuba....Pg 6-7 I was delighted to find that this is a Board that gets things done! At one of • Class Notes...... Pg 8-9 A letter from the Alumni my first meetings, I proposed that we • Alumni Board...... Pg 10 start a Mentoring Committee. Before Click here to read previous issues Board President I knew it, we were working with the Mailman Staff, Office of Student – Helen K Edelberg, MD, MPH, FACP Affairs, and Office of Career Services to Dear Alumni Community: host a series of successful networking/ mentoring events for students and I am thrilled to introduce myself to SCHOOL PRIDE alumni. For the last 2 years I have also you in my first month as Alumni Board had the privilege of serving as the President. In this letter I’ll share a Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) little about my background and my liaison, where I worked closely with experiences at Mailman, as well as my Alumni leaders from other Columbia hopes for the coming year. schools to enhance Alumni offerings. Shortly after moving to NYC in 1999 I’m proud to work with such an I was given the option of completing engaged, dynamic, creative group of my MPH over 8 weeks in Boston or volunteers at Mailman and CU.

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NEW REGIONAL CHAPTERS health care leaders in our Almaz Ahmed-Falol: A 2009 graduate of Look out for invitations for Special community. the Department and Events organized by our out of NY Management, Almaz has a passion for chapters in Boston, Washington, For the 2016-17 academic year, we health IT and currently works as a San Francisco and Atlanta this year! are looking to have our third-straight consultant. Her enthusiasm for connecting Please contact the editorial Board record breaking year for FPHL on students to the health IT sector will make at [email protected] if Wednesday, October 26th, 2016. A her an excellent resource. Prior to coming you are interested in being active in key part of our success strategy has to Mailman, she earned a BA from the your area! been a strong, community-wide University of California, Davis. effort. Last year we had a $20,000 Mentoring Committee - Chaired by challenge funded by 4 members of Patrick Georgia: A Michelle Moses-Eisenstein, MPH ’12. the Mailman community. This pool 2013 graduate of the The mission of the Mentoring of challenge money was used to add Department of Health Committee is to link volunteer alumni an additional $100 to gifts made to Policy and Management, with current students. Mailman on Giving Day. This year we Patrick says that he are looking to set even bolder goals. owes everything that he The new Mentorship program, the So far, we have secured $35,000 in is now to Mailman. Mailman School Alumni Coach commitments for the challenge. We He provides strategy Program, runs through CareerLink are seeking even more commitments consulting in the life sciences/health care www.mailman.columbia.edu/ – with a larger pool of committed industry and participates in the Board’s become-student/career-services/ donors we’ll have the ability to mentoring committee and recently joined students/careerlink has been expand the challenge match. Another the Alumni Coaching Program. In addition launched! There are currently 125 reason for our continued success on to his Columbia degree, he holds a BA alumni volunteers, 11 from the Giving Day is our many volunteers from George Washington University. mentoring committee, 8 alumni who call, email and otherwise help : Gary board members and 30 students motivate the community. Last year Gary Newton received his MPH in 1981 have already signed up! Thanks to we had close to 50 students and from the Department of the commitment and leadership of alumni who contacted friends and Population and Health. He alumni, the Office of Institutional colleagues and encouraged them to has an extensive background Advancement, and the Office of make gifts. The alumni office has in international health Career Services, alumni involvement tools to help volunteers reach out to through his career in the has already exceeded expectations. friends and classmates. Foreign Service and actively maintains his If you are interested in becoming an Please contact Arianne Andrusco or Foreign Service connections. He is excited alumni coach, please contact Kim to be reconnected to a school that Peters at [email protected]. If call 212-305-5270 if you’re interested in being a “Giving Day Volunteer” or opened a world of opportunity to him and you would like to highlight your plans to share his experiences with mentor experience for a future issue making a commitment to help fund the Giving Day “Alumni Challenge.” students and alumni who are pursuing of E-Mailman, please contact careers in international health. He also Michelle Moses-Eisenstein. holds a BA from Colby College and an Governance Committee - Chaired by MA from Smith College. Development Committee – Chaired Nina Rothschild, DrPH ’00, MPH 92. by Carlos Cuevas, MPA, MPH ’12 After a highly competitive process, Patricia Ruppert: Is a Strives to encourage Alumni financial the Mailman School of Public Health 2015 graduate of the support of the school and students . Alumni Association is pleased to Executive Master of welcome four new members to its Public Health Program The 2015-16 academic year was board of directors. The applicants and currently serves as another record-breaking year for were chosen from a pool of 40 highly the Commissioner of the Fund for Public Health qualified and enthusiastic public Health and Hospitals of Leadership (FPHL). Thanks to the health professionals. The Board Rockland County, NY. She is thrilled to generosity of many alumni, thanks all who submitted applications. give back to Mailman and its students, students, faculty, family and friends Applicants not selected for board actively participates in a number of alumni of the Mailman community as well membership this year are invited to events, and consistently serves as a as a very successful Giving Day we participate in committees and help resource to students. Prior to coming to Mailman, she earned a BS from St. John’s had amazing success. In total, The Board members plan events, mentor, University and a DO from NY College of Fund for Public Health Leadership influence development activities, and Osteopathic Medicine. raised just shy of $200,000 for continue to enhance the alumni student scholarships. Those funds experience. have helped Mailman offer 26 academic scholarships to future 2016 E-Mailman Issue #3 3 SpringFall 2016 2016 Issue Issue #3 #2 MARK YOU CALENDAR Mailman Alumni Profile OCTOBER 26, 2016 Meet Daniel Wolfe, MPH ‘05, MPhil ‘07 In each issue of E-Mailman, we resources for health care. HIV added a personal sense of urgency: my friends profile the work of one or more were dying while the government Mailman alumni. This fall, Alumni did not address the emergency, and I Board members Anette Wu and wanted to help to create change. Nina Rothschild spoke with Daniel Wolfe, Director of International In my current work in international Harm Reduction Development at harm reduction, I feel that people at Open Society Foundations. risk (i.e. people who use drugs) are criminalized. The word “public” in public health is too often narrowly defined, with only members of majority GET INVOLVED groups considered “the public.” People at risk are marginalized and Help this year’s Columbia Giving Day not regarded as citizens deserving shatter records and change lives! Sign rights and protections. Drug use should be treated as a health issue, but up to learn more, spread the word, or often the approach of organizations become a volunteer. or governments to the problem is oriented toward surveillance and control. In some countries, the only SIGN UP TODAY treatment available to people who use drugs is chanting “I am bad” DANIEL’S CAREER: and doing forced labor. In an area WATCH OUR LEADERBOARD GROW in Bogota with substantial drug Before coming to Mailman in mid- use, drug users were displaced to a We can earn bonus funds for career, I worked in public health sewage canal – in a policy move by Mailman through hourly challenges. without an academic background. which people who were deemed a I was initially employed in foreign health risk were contained rather than With your help, the Mailman School policy at a think tank. When the HIV/ helped. The drug problem was bad, of Public Health can win a share of AIDS epidemic hit NYC in the 1980s, but the response was as bad as the $400,000 in matching funds from I felt I had to deal with the “war” at problem it sought to address. In the home and do something. Many of my Philippines, drug users have been Colmbia’s Trustees for student close friends and family were affected the victim of extra-judicial killings. scholarships. directly or indirectly by this epidemic. That stigmatizing attitude persists I first joined the AIDS organization Gay in this country, too, and impacts Men’s Health Crisis and participated as the distribution of medication: an AIDS activist in a movement called for example, in many states, new JOIN THE GIVING DAY INSIDERS “Act Up” in the 1980s. The work was medications that can cure Hepatitis C Can’t get enough of Columbia compelling and energizing, but I had are inaccessible to active drug users, no health or public health background. even though studies have shown Giving Day? Sign up to receive So -- I went back to school to bolster that they can take these medicines important updates and sneak peeks. my public health understanding. At regularly and benefit from them. Standard text messaging rates Mailman, I received a lot of good tools for my work in public health. HOW DOES YOUR WORK IMPACT apply. U.S. phone numbers only. Since graduation, I have been working ON PUBLIC HEALTH? internationally, broadening my focus TEXT CGD2016 TO 444999 and dealing with global issues. My I work for an international organization passion lies in seeing whether we dedicated to health and rights. In can work with communities, not particular, I focus on harm reduction just performing interventions on and adverse consequences of drug It’s not how much you give - it’s how communities and excluding people policies. History repeats itself. When and groups with our policies. I currently AIDS grew, government did not many of us stand together. Please serve as Director of International Harm prevent its growth in the US, and help the Mailman School of Public Reduction Development at the Open I saw the same thing happening, Health be a leader on Giving Day! Society Foundations. for example, in Eastern Europe. My program sustains drug users through DANIEL’S KEY EXPERIENCE: grant making to support advocacy, capacity building and pilot services. I was concerned about how our We keep people out of prison and 4 country, a global leader, had scarce offer them the opportunity to make MSPH Alumni Newsletter by alumni for alumni SpringFall 2016 Issue #2#3

choices that benefit their health even if they are not ready or able to stop drug use altogether.

THE GREATEST CHALLENGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH:

When you work in public health, make sure that you are protecting communities at risk rather than protecting people from those communities. MAY 17, 2016

ADVICE TO RECENT GRADS:

Work on projects to which you can COMMENCEMENT connect through your own lived experience. Richards spoke eloquently about her history as an activist and what it takes ADVICE TO MID-CAREER GRADS: to fight for social change – and change people’s lives for the better. Good Becoming an administrator of an advice, important reminders, and epidemic is easy. Be less of an administrator and more of an actor. inspiration for all of us in the field of Work to change the history. public health:

ONE THING YOU’D LIKE ALUMNI www.mailman.columbia.edu/public- TO KNOW ABOUT YOU: health-now/news/troublemakers-who- change-lives Keep your eye on what you thought Cecile Richards, President of Planned and still think is important. Don’t Parenthood Federation of America, become too drawn into the logic was the 2016 Commencement Speaker of the institutions in which you find CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF yourself working. I wouldn’t trade 2016... HERE’S TO YOUR FUTURE! the experience of feeling as though I You are all here at Mailman because you could make a difference for anything. have all chosen to put your brilliance I’m glad to have been connected and energy into public health, which both to a grass roots organization and to an international foundation. And is by definition social change….You remember that the choice you make could’ve let public health issues in Flint, today is not your only option. Michigan, or West Texas or sub-Saharan HOBBIES: Africa be someone else’s problem. But when you dedicated your life to public I feel most engaged when everything health, that’s not what you signed up I do feels central to my work. And everyone in the world understands for. – Cecile Richards why health is important. Cecile Richards gave an inspiring speech to graduates at the 2016 If you know someone whose work in commencement. If you haven’t read Public Health should be mentioned about it or heard it, please visit this here please email Kim Peters at link for full coverage: livestream. [email protected] com/mailman/Commencement2016/ videos/123253983.

2016 E-Mailman Issue #2 5 SpringFall 2016 2016 Issue Issue #3 #2 Mailman’s trip to CUBA Alison Boyle on Mailman’s trip to CUBA – September 2016! In September, 18 Mailman students to serve their neighbors. It opened and alumni embarked on a 6-day with approximately 2,000 students trip to explore the public health from 19 countries and has now system in Havana, Cuba. Although graduated more than 12,000 usually led and attended by doctors from over 100 countries, students in the Executive MPH program, participants in this year’s A New Public Health Challenge trip also included 3 alumni from the Accelerated and Executive MPH including 145 from the U.S.A. programs and 8 friends and family, The Mailman group enjoyed the Despite having only a small along with 7 current EMPH students. opportunity to meet with 7 of the fraction of the medical supplies 10 current American students in and resources available in rich the 2nd year class – from around countries, Cuba has developed the US including Seattle, WA and and supported a highly effective Jacksonville, FL . public health system. The country is ranked #32 on the World Health Mailman travelers also visited a Organization’s rankings of life primary care ‘polyclinic,’ where expectancy, immediately behind they enjoyed a thoughtful dialog the U.S (based on government with the Assistant Clinic Director, reported statistics). Dr. Marisela Pio, about current Mailman students gather at the Welcome public health concerns. Avoidance Hall of ELAM, flanked by the national flags of students attending the school. and treatment of the Zika virus and other infectious disease is a In addition to visiting to public key focus, with aggressive and health facilities, the group attended proactive mosquito control as the a variety of cultural excursions such aim of their prevention strategy. as a walking tour of Old Havana An aging population with a City, a visit to the home and studio decreasing replacement rate was of artist Jose Fuster and a day-trip also cited as a challenge. With an to the Las Terrazas eco-community average patient-to-physician ratio Local Nurses located in the Biosphere Reserve of 1000:1, doctors are required to Sierra del Rosario, both designated make house calls to their patients: Maria Tazi, EMPH/MHA class of UNESCO World Heritage sites. with limited resources, the health 2016, led the trip and said it was care system does not have money “an eye-opening experience – we A highlight of the week was a visit for high-tech interventions but, were able to see how much they to Escuela Latinoamericana de rather trains a small army of do with such limited resources, Medicina (ELAM), located in the physicians who meet their patients but also feel the impact of the Playa municipality of the city, where where they live and are proactive government’s control, both students met with the School’s in driving preventive health and positive and negative.” Director of International Relations, health condition management, Victor Diaz, to learn about the including enforcing treatment The visit was uniquely shaped by origins and the legacy of the school. compliance. the anticipated changes in the ELAM was founded in 1999 within country’s political and economic the Cuban Ministry of Public Health Patient waiting area to an exam room future including the re-opening of Administration to train doctors diplomatic relations by the United from rural and underdeveloped States. More trips to Cuba, as well areas around the world at no cost as other global locations, are being to the student. After finishing the discussed by the current EMPH 5-year training, young doctors students. return to their home communities

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The tribute wall highlights the late Dean’s legacy of leadership (1986-2008) News on Campus and around... REMEMBERING ALLAN news/it-together. Dean Fried and the that before they can work toward ROSENFIELD, MD Huffington Post implementing this goal on a population scale, they first must know A new tribute wall honors the late Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, the Dean more about themselves. She also Dean Allan Rosenfield, MD on the 8th and DeLamar Professor of Public spoke on the value of self-reflection floor of the Mailman School of Public Health at the Columbia University in fighting systemic oppression. Read Health. The tribute wall highlights Mailman School of Public Health and Walking the Talk with Dr. Raygine the late Dean’s legacy of leadership Professor of Medicine at Columbia’s DiAquoi www.mailman.columbia. (1986-2008) in public health. www. College of Physicians & Surgeons, edu/public-health-now/news/ mailman.columbia.edu/public- an internationally renowned scientist walking-talk-raygine-diaquoi. health-now/news/remembering- in the fields of , allan-rosenfield. gerontology and geriatrics who has NEW BUILDING AT CUMC dedicated her career to the science of healthy aging and creating the basis for a transition to an aging world that benefits all ages, writes often on public health in The Huffington

Post; see www.huffingtonpost. com/author/linda-p-fried. Her most recent piece, The Pressing Need For An Emergency Fund For Public The Diana and Roy Vagelos Center for WELCOMING A GREAT NEW Health, was published September Education located at 104 Haven Avenue. CLASS! 7, 2016: www.huffingtonpost.com/ The Vagelos Education Center is a linda-p-fried/the-pressing-need-for- Nearly 700 incoming students began new, state-of-the-art medical and an_b_11895610.html their public health journey this fall at graduate education building at the Mailman School. Included among A NEW DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY Columbia University Irving Medical their ranks is a Deputy Chief in the CULTURE AND INCLUSION Center’s campus. The building, New York City Fire Department, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro an Argentine physician, a former in collaboration with Gensler as professional rock climber, and a executive architect, is a 100,000 New Jersey native with a head start square-foot, 14-story glass tower on a Mailman education. There are that incorporates technologically 400 MPH, 90 MS, 80 MHA, and 25 advanced classrooms, collaboration doctoral students who come from 35 spaces, and a modern simulation states and 37 countries. The youngest center to reflect how medicine is student is 19; the most senior, 68. The School welcomes a new director taught, learned, and practiced in Many of them are familiar with the of the Office of Diversity Culture the 21st century. The design seeks public health landscape from prior (ODCI), Raygine DiAquoi. For the to reshape the look and feel of the professional experience, and a few last five years, incoming students Medical Center campus, as well already know how they want to make have taken part in Self Social Global as to create spaces that facilitate their mark on today’s most pressing Awareness, a program that prepares the development of skills essential public health issues: www.mailman. them to fight for health equity. In her for modern medical practice. columbia.edu/public-health-now/ introductory remarks during the educationbldg.cumc.columbia.edu. program, Dr. DiAquoi told students 7 SpringFall 2016 2016 Issue Issue #3 #2 Call for Class Notes

WHAT’S NEW? Tell us about what’s going on in your alumni updates life. New job? Newly published article? New spouse? New baby? We’re eager to hear it all! Feel free to share. Send a picture if you have one available. Tell us what’s cooking. To Happenings near and far... keep us in the loop, please write to [email protected]. Thomas Campbell Jackson receving the Alumni Medal at the CAA Leaderhip Weekend October 8, 2016 Clare Bradley, MD, MPH ‘89, IPRO’s Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, has been chosen as President-Elect of the American Health Quality Association (AHQA), a Washington DC-area healthcare trade association. Kathleen Crowley, MPH ‘91, DrPH Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, MD ’79, DrPH ’13, Past President of the Alumni ’87, ScD’74, emeritus professor of Thomas Campbell Jackson, MPH ’88, Board of the Mailman School of Public Sciences at was awarded Columbia University’s Health, was a panelist at the first-ever the Mailman School of Public Health, Alumni Medal during Commencement Women’s Leadership Workshop at this and from 2002 to 2008, chairman of 2016 and was again recognized year’s Columbia Alumni Leaders the Department, was named Dean during Alumni Leaders Weekend on Weekend (CALW) in New York. She of the School of Biomedical October 8, 2016. Thomas was was joined by alumni from Barnard, Engineering, Science and Health selected to receive this high honor Business, Journalism, Law and SIPA. Systems at Drexel University. for his distinguished service of ten Each year, alumni leaders from years or more including being Past participating schools across the Harris Brodsky ’62 has been President and longtime member of University come together at the CALW named an Executive in Residence at the Board of the Mailman School’s to hear updates on our Alma Mater, Hofstra University’s Frank G. Zarb Alumni Association, where he helped connect with fellow volunteers, and School of Business to reinvigorate fundraising for the be inspired as we work together to Fund for Public Health Leadership. move Columbia forward. Jennifer Calder, DVM, MPH ‘90, PhD Since 2009, Thomas has a veterinarian and epidemiologist simultaneously served on the Ellen Greenberg, MPH ’79, recently from New York City, has been named Mailman School’s Board of Overseers. retired from her role as Lead the Health and Human Services He has been active with the University Coordinator at the Naomi Berrie Director for the City of Stamford, CT. in a variety of other ways, including Diabetes Center/Columbia University. donating specialized microscopy equipment for use by Mailman’s Marni Hall, MPH ‘05, MPhil ‘06, Department of Environmental Health PhD ‘07, was named the Senior Vice Sciences. Thomas was part of the President of Research and Policy for Columbia Alumni Association’s multi- PatientsLikeMe, charged with year 2017 Strategic Planning Task developing and directing the Force and has also been a member of strategies and teams focused on the Columbia Presbyterian Health expanding the role of real-world Sciences Advisory Council. The first evidence in precision medicine, and Alumni Medal was awarded by in the research agendas of Columbia in 1933. PatientsLikeMe and its customers.

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Dr. Nadia Laniado MPH ’14 was Planet” called “Hip Hop, Fashion, recently selected to be a Fellows Dance, Contemporary Concert Ambassador at the New York Music, and Sustainable Development Academy of Medicine. Goals.” Artists from around the world (Israel, China, Austria, Japan, Korea, Mary E. O’Dowd, MPH ’04, was Germany and the US) performed and named executive director for health the audience included leaders from systems and population health around the world present in NYC for integration at Rutgers Health where the UN General Assembly. The theme she will support the academic health was “ Sustainable Development care provider in its initiatives to Goals: a Universal Push to Transform Love Columbia? Can’t get enough of promote health and wellness. Our World,” and the concert offered Facebook or Twitter? Become a a musical interpretation of what is at Columbia social media ambassador! Darrell K. Terry Sr., MPH ‘14, has stake and what is possible. Use your social media network to been named president and CEO of share the latest and greatest news Newark, NJ Beth Israel Medical Ways to Stay Connected and ideas from our University -- and Center and Children’s Hospital of win prizes along the way. Join now at New Jersey. COLUMBIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION columbiasocial.alumni.columbia.edu. (CAA) Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (second from right), Mailman Alumni Board member As alumni of Columbia University, we Dr. Anette Wu (left), pianist Revital are part of a global network of more Hachamoff with her husband and than 330,000 leaders, creators, and friend at Carnegie Hall change makers bound together by our shared University connection and our collective passion, intellect, and drive. The Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) invites us to explore the new Alumni Community, an exclusive resource for Columbia alumni www.caa.columbia.edu.

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, director of , Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Mailman, gave opening remarks on September 21, 2016 as director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) at a concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring “Music for a Sustainable 9 Leading the future of public health through pioneering research and trailblazing program development.

Alumni Board Members at the CAA Leadership Weekend Reception

Mailman School of Public Health Alumni Board

E-Mailman Editorial Board Mailman School of Public Health Alumni Board (*Denotes DeLamar Society Member) NAME COMMITTEE Arianne Andrusco *Kavita Bali, MIA, MPH ’01 Mentoring Dominick Boyce, MPH ‘93 *Michael H. Barnett, JD, MS ’70 (Emeritus) Development, Governance Alison Boyle, MPH ‘07 *Alison Boyle, MPH ‘07 Mentoring Kathleen Crowley, PA-C, MPH’91, Tai-Tsang Chen, MS ‘99, MPH ‘04, PhD ‘06 Special Events DrPH‘13 *Kathleen Crowley, PA-C, MPH ’91, DrPH ’13 Governance Carlos Cuevas, MPA, MPH ’12 *Carlos Cuevas, MPA, MPH ’12 Development (Chair) Alyssa Gouvouniotis *Helen K. Edelberg, MD, MPH ’02 President Amy Osorio, MPH ‘06 Almaz Ahmed-Falol MPH ‘09 Kim Peters *Michael Fassler, MBA ‘76, MPH ‘77 Special Events Hannah Rosenzweig, MPH ’05 *Gabriel Galindo, DrPH ’09 Mentoring Nina Rothschild, MPH ’92, DrPH ’00 *Arnold Gans, BS ’55 Mentoring, Special Events Jessie Schutt-Aine, MPH ’94 Patrick Georgia MPH ‘13 Mentoring Anette Wu, MD, MPH ‘08 Nancy Hogle, RN, MPH ‘10 Governance If you are interested in writing an *Thomas Campbell Jackson, MPH ’98 Governance articile for the E-Mailman, please Stuart M. Lane, PhD, MPH ’73 Special Events contact Kim Peters *Megan Leese, MPH ’07 Mentoring *Jay Messeroff, BS’76 Pharmacy Special Events Nancy McGee, MPH ’08 Development Contact for the Office of Michelle Moses-Eisenstein, MPH ‘12 Mentoring (Chair) Institutional Advancement *Howard Nadel, BS ’74 Development Theodore Nappi, Pharm D ’73 Governance Arianne Andrusco *Gary Newton MPH ‘81 Mentoring Director Alumni Relations and *Amy Osorio, MPH ‘06 Governance Development *Michael Paas, MPH ‘99, MBA ‘99 Special Events, Governance Hannah Rosenzweig, MPH ’05 Mentoring Alyssa Gouvounioti *Nina Rothschild, MPH ’92, DrPH ’00 Governance (Chair), Development Development Associate *Patricia Ruppert MPH ‘15 Kim Peters Jessie Schutt-Aine, MPH ’94 Mentoring Development Officer *Harold Selden, BS ’62, MD Special Events *Madeline Y. Sutton, MD, MPH ’89 Development *Elena Tobin, MPH ’07 Governance Sunny Uppal, MPH ’10 Development, Mentoring *Jeffrey Voigt, MPH ’83, MBA Special Events, Mentoring *Anette Wu, MD, MPH ‘08 Special Events (Chair) *Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD ‘03 Mentoring 10 2016 E-Mailman Issue #3