Celebration of Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science Friday, October 16, 2020 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Zoom only

Time Agenda Lead

1:00 PM Welcome Dean Cheryl Anderson

1:05 PM Inspiration for a 21st Century School of Vice Chancellor David Brenner Public Health Dr. Herbert Wertheim

1:15 PM Toasts: Celebrating the 1st Academic Year Dr. Harvey Fineberg in the new Herbert Wertheim School of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Public Health and Human Longevity Science Dean Hilary Godwin

Dr. David Goff National Institutes of Health, National Heart and Lung Blood Institute

Dr. Pedro Hallal President of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Dr. Ramon Hernandez Institute for Public Health

Dean Ashish Jha Brown University

Dean Michael Lu UC Berkeley

Dr. Eyal O ren San Diego State University

Mr. Nick Macchione Director San Diego County Health and Human Services

Dean Donna Petersen University of South Florida

Dean Jonathan Samet University of Colorado

2:10 PM Closing Remarks/Call to Action Dean Anderson Toasts will be given by the following distinguished public health leaders

Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Harvey Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D, is President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which fosters scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements, and preservation of the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area. Fineberg held the presidential chair for 2014-15 as visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to that, he served as president of the National Academy of Medicine from 2002 to 2014 and as provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, following 13 years as Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He chairs the advisory board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, co-chairs the inaugural international advisory board of Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health, and chairs the US National Academies’ standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and 21st century health threats. Fineberg has devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making, co-authoring books and papers on topics that include physician education, medical decision-making, diagnostic technology, global health, the HIV pandemic, and the federal response to swine flu. He serves on the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the China Medical Board and previously served on the board of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He helped found the Society for Medical Decision Making and served as its president, and chaired the WHO Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations in Relation to Pandemic (H1N1). He earned his MD and PhD degrees from Harvard University.

Hilary Godwin, PhD, BS Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

Hilary Godwin joined the University of Washington on July 15, 2018 as Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Over her career, Dr. Godwin's research has focused primarily on elucidating the molecular toxicology of engineered nanomaterials and the heavy metal lead. She has also worked on the impacts of conservation programs and policies on the health of indigenous populations and on community-based approaches to addressing environmental health problems. Her primary passions are for projects and programs that involve interdisciplinary collaborations that provide a scientific basis for prevention-based approaches to improving health and for training and mentoring the next generation of public health leaders. Godwin was most recently at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where she was Associate Dean for Academic Programs and a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Godwin received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of . David Calvin Goff Jr., M.D., Ph.D., FACP, FAHA Director, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

David C. Goff, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., is Director, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health. In this role, he leads a diverse team of scientists and administrators committed to turning discovery into cardiovascular health. Prior to joining the NHLBI, he served as Dean and Professor of Epidemiology in the Colorado School of Public Health and as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He received an MD from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association. He has published over 300 manuscripts, book chapters, and other scientific reports. The major focus of his research has been on developing, testing, and implementing better strategies for promoting cardiovascular health and preventing CVD.

Pedro Hallal, MSc, PhD President of the Federal University in Pelotas, Brazil

Dr. Hallal is currently the President of the Federal University in Pelotas, Brazil. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in Epidemiology. Dr. Hallal has published over 400 scientific articles, most of them in the field of physical activity and health. He served on the executive committee of the Lancet Physical Activity Series 1 (published in 2012), 2 (published in 2016) and 3 (to be published in 2021). Dr. Hallal has acted as the coordinator of the Global Observatory for Physical Activity. During the pandemic, he led the largest epidemiological study on Covid19 worldwide so far, collecting real time data on the evolution of the pandemic in Brazil.

Ramón Hernandez, DrPH, MPH Chief for Community Health in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego

Dr. Ramón A. Hernandez, DrPH, MPH, is the Section Chief for Community Health in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego, School of Medicine. He is part of a dynamic team, at the Center for Community Health (CCH), focused on preventing chronic diseases, addressing health disparities, and promoting health equity and justice. A core area of Dr. Hernandez’ work during his ten years at UCSD has been Increasing the diversity of our healthcare workforce by nurturing and supporting underrepresented and disadvantaged students along their personal, academic and professional paths. He currently is the Project Director on the Hispanic Center of Excellence (HCOE) and the Health Career Opportunities Program (HCOP), both funded by HRSA, at the UC San Diego, School of Medicine. He is also serving on the UCSD Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Work Group. Dr. Hernandez has worked extensively on the planning, implementation, and evaluation of youth and community development programs across the United States. He has over twenty-five years of local and national experience in adolescent and young adult development; minority and urban health; adolescent mental health; and, academic diversity and retention programs. His passion is creating and sustaining supportive and equitable environments where every young person can be healthy, thrive and succeed. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association, San Diego; CA Medicine, which he cofounded to create a statewide community college-university-medical school pipeline; and, Latinas in Medicine. He also sits on the advisory board for Scripps San Diego Border AHEC; the Environmental Justice committee on SD County’s COVID Task Force; and, also on the Mayor’s COVID Task Force for the City of Imperial Beach. He has worked in Boston, Chicago, Denver and for the last 22 years has been blessed to call San Diego, and the city of Imperial Beach home. He received both his Masters of Public Health in Health Service Administration and his Doctorate of Public Health in Maternal Child Health at Boston University School of Public Health.

Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H Dean of the School of Public Health Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice Brown University School of Public Health

A practicing physician, Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., is recognized globally as an expert on pandemic preparedness and response as well as on health policy research and practice. He has led groundbreaking research around Ebola and is now on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, leading national and international analysis of key issues and advising state and federal policy makers.

Dr. Jha has published more than two hundred original research publications in prestigious journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the BMJ, and is a frequent contributor to a range of public media. He has extensively researched how to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care, focusing on the impact of public health policy nationally and around the globe.

On September 1, Dr. Jha started his role as the Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University. Before that, Dr. Jha was a faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since 2004 and Harvard Medical School since 2005. He was the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute from 2014 until September 2020. From 2018 to 2020, he served as the Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A general internist previously with the West Roxbury VA in Massachusetts, Dr. Jha will continue his practice at the Providence VA Medical Center.

Dr. Jha was born in Pursaulia, Bihar, India in 1970. He moved to Toronto, Canada in 1979 and then to the United States in 1983. In 1992, Dr. Jha graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in economics. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1997 and then trained as a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He returned to Boston to complete his fellowship in General Medicine from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In 2004, he completed his Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Michael Lu, M.D., MS, M.P.H. Dean School of Public Health University of California, Berkley

Dr. Lu possesses decades of expertise in maternal and child health policy. He is currently dean of the school of public health at the University of California, Berkeley, and previously a senior associate dean at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

Lu served as director of the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Obama Administration. During his tenure, he transformed key federal programs in maternal and child health, and launched major initiatives to reduce maternal, infant, and child mortality across the nation. He oversaw the launch and expansion of the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program. For his leadership, he was awarded the prestigious U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Hubert H. Humphrey Service to America Award in 2013.

Prior to his public service, Lu was a professor of obstetrics-gynecology and public health at UCLA, where his research focused on racial-ethnic disparities in birth outcomes from a life- course perspective. He co-directed the residency program in obstetrics and gynecology and a training grant in maternal and child health, and received several prestigious awards for his teaching. As a practicing obstetrician for nearly two decades, he has attended more than 1000 births, and has been voted one of the Best Doctors in America since 2005. Lu has served on three National Academy of Medicine Committees, and co-authored the recently released report Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity.

Lu received his bachelor’s degrees in political science and human biology from Stanford University, master’s degrees in health and medical sciences and public health from UC Berkeley, medical degree from UC San Francisco, and residency training in obstetrics and gynecology from UC Irvine.

Eyal Oren, PhD, MS Interim Director of the School of Public Health at San Diego State University

Dr. Eyal Oren is the Interim Director of the School of Public Health at San Diego State University. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Epidemiology and has been serving as the Associate Director of Academic Affairs. He is also a core-investigator at the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health. He is trained as an infectious disease, respiratory and social epidemiologist with particular expertise in respiratory health, and numerous projects in COVID-19, TB, flu, tobacco exposure and asthma. He has also worked at the interface of infectious etiologies and chronic disease outcomes, particularly cancers. He has extensive experience in epidemiological and clinical research, working on the effective adoption of interventions in the community as well as in developing evidence-based strategies and practices from secondary data analyses and novel data sources. He has published 95+ peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and holds an undergraduate degree in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and PhD and MS degrees in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Prior to coming to SDSU, Dr. Oren was faculty in the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona from 2013-2017.

Nick Macchione Director San Diego County Health and Human Services

Nick Macchione has over 30 years of clinical and executive experience leading and managing large, complex service delivery systems comprised of healthcare, public health, behavioral health, housing, and social drivers of health in various settings (city and county governments, hospital and community non-profit) in the New York metropolitan area and San Diego County. Since 1997, Mr. Macchione has worked for the County of San Diego’s Health & Human Services Agency with the first ten years as the Deputy Director for the North Coastal, North Inland and North Central regions of the County. Since 2008, he has been serving as the Agency’s Director for the entire county region that serves 1.1 million clients with health, housing and human services through a workforce of 7,000 employees, 350 contracted organizations, 168 citizen advisory boards and a $2.6 billion annual budget. Since 2010, Macchione has been leading a nationally acclaimed, paradigm shift transforming how the County of San Diego government along with nearly 500 non-profits and for-profit partners, is using health equity approaches to help all San Diegans live well. As the chief architect and strategist of “Live Well San Diego,” Macchione is championing this large-scale, social movement focused on improving life expectancy and social well-being throughout the county region, and inspiring collective efforts of prevention for all San Diegans to be healthy, safe and thriving. Currently, Macchione is the main architect and director of the County’s COVID-19 T3 Strategy of Test, Trace and Treat, a large-scale population health-based strategy using collaborative effort to achieve collective impact in protecting the public’s health against COVID-19 throughout all of San Diego County, especially disproportionately impacted communities. Macchione holds master’s degrees from Columbia University and New York University specializing in executive leadership, management and health policy and is the Malcolm Baldrige Foundation’s 2018 Harry S. Hertz Leadership Award Recipient and 2016 Public Official of the Year by Governing Magazine. Nick is the region’s former elected Regent and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Public Health Leadership Scholar with the Public Health Institute/federal CDC and a Creating Healthier Communities Fellow of the American Hospital Association. He is also SDSU Graduate School of Public Health’s John Hanlon Executive Scholar by serving as professor of practice and research in the areas of strategic planning, management and marketing.

Donna J. Petersen, ScD, MHS, CPH Senior Associate Vice President, USF Health Dean, College of Public Health

Dr. Petersen is a professor of public health at the University of South Florida. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees in maternal and child health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She has held faculty and senior leadership positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and served as Director of the Division of Family Health at the Minnesota Department of Health. Dr. Petersen is the author of numerous publications, book chapters and a textbook on needs assessment in public health. She is a frequent lecturer on topics related to educational innovation in public health, maternal and child health, health care reform, and systems change and leadership, and has provided extensive technical assistance and training to over 25 state health departments in the areas of needs assessment, data system development, systems level accountability and the development of population-based indicators. She has served on numerous boards, commissions and task forces and is Editor Emerita of the Maternal and Child Health Journal, founding member and past president of the National Board of Public Health Examiners, past chair of the Council on Education for Public Health, and immediate-past chair of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. From 2011-2015 she led the Framing the Future Task Force on the future of education in public health and is a member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Systems and Services Research Initiative. Locally she is a member of the Tampa Bay Partnership’s OneBay Healthy Communities Executive Committee, the Hillsborough County Health Care Advisory Board, the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg Board of Trustees, the Hillsborough County Commission on the Status of Women Advisory Council on Women’s Health, and formerly served on the Tampa Preparatory School’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Petersen has been honored for her work by the American Public Health Association, the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health, the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, the Delta Omega National Public Health Honor Society, the National Coalition for Excellence in MCH Epidemiology, the federal Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. In August of 2011 she was presented a Distinguished Alumna Award by The .

Jonathan Samet, MD, MS Dean and Professor, Colorado School of Public Health

Dr. Jonathan Samet, a pulmonary physician and epidemiologist, is Dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. His research has focused on the health risks of inhaled pollutants in outdoor air and also indoor pollutants including secondhand smoke and radon. He has also investigated the occurrence and causes of cancer and respiratory diseases, emphasizing the risks of active and passive smoking. He has served on and chaired numerous committees concerned with the environment, tobacco control, and health. Currently, he leads the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group, which is modeling the epidemic in Colorado for public health purposes. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1997 and received the David Rall Medal in 2015 for his contributions.