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Carolina PubliC HealtH Gillings School of Global Public Health | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FALL 2013 · VOLUME 2 · NUMBER 5 Solving north Carolina’s Public Health Challenges FALL 2013 | 1 Public Health Foundation Incorporated board OF directors Delton Atkinson, MPH, MPH, PMP P. LaMont Bryant, PhD, RAC Alma (Gibbie) Harris, MSPH, RN James Rosen, MBA, MSPH President Director, Regulatory Health Director Partner Acting Director Affairs-Biosurgery Buncombe County (N.C.) Intersouth Partners Division of Vital Statistics Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson Department of Health National Center for Health Statistics Jacqueline Sergent, MPH, RD, LDN Centers for Disease Control and Cynthia H. Cassell, PhD, MA Deborah Parham Hopson, PhD, RN Health Promotion Coordinator/ Prevention Health Scientist Assistant Surgeon General Health Education Supervisor National Center on Birth Defects Associate Administrator Granville-Vance (N.C.) District Paula Brown Stafford, MPH and Developmental Disabilities HIV/AIDS Bureau Health Department Vice President Centers for Disease Control Health Resources and President, Clinical Development and Prevention Services Administration Celette Sugg Skinner, PhD Quintiles Professor and Chief, Behavioral and Deniese M. Chaney, MPH Joan C. Huntley, PhD, MPH Communication Sciences Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH Principal Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Department of Clinical Sciences Executive Vice President Accenture Health and Public Service Gillings School of Global Public Health Associate Director for Cancer Control Ex Officio and Population Sciences Dean and Stacy-Ann Christian, JD, MPH Mark H. Merrill, MSPH Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center Alumni Distinguished Professor Associate Director President and Chief Executive Officer University of Texas Southwestern Gillings School of Global Public Health Research Administration and Finance Valley Health System Medical Center Northeastern University Peggy Dean Glenn Stephen A. Morse, MSPH, PhD Senthil N. Sundaram, MD, MPH Executive Director/Secretary Michael (Trey) A. Crabb III, Associate Director for Cardiologist Ex Officio MHA, MBA Environmental Microbiology WFP – Raleigh Cardiology Associate Dean for External Affairs Managing Director, Healthcare Mergers, National Center for Emerging Gillings School of Global Public Health Acquisitions and Strategic Services Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Edgar G. Villanueva, MHA, FACHE Ziegler Investment Banking Centers for Disease Control Owner/Principal Charlotte Nuñez-Wolff, EdD and Prevention Leverage Philanthropic Partners Treasurer David Dodson, MDiv Ex Officio President Douglas M. Owen, PE, BCEE Alice D. White, PhD Associate Dean for Business and Finance MDC Inc. Executive Vice President Vice President (Retired) Gillings School of Global Public Health ARCADIS U.S. Worldwide Epidemiology Department Cynthia J. Girman, DrPH GlaxoSmithKline David J. Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP Executive Director, Department Jonathan J. Pullin, MS Senior Vice President and of Epidemiology Academic Success Coach Chen-yu Yen, PhD, PE Chief Quality Officer Merck Research Laboratories OASIS Department President and Chief Executive Officer Baylor Health Care System Johnson C. Smith University TerraSure Development LLC Andrea M. Griffin, BSPH Vice President Executive Director and BHCS Board Member Roy J. Ramthun, MSPH Endowed Chair Gannett Fleming Inc. Lake Norman Community Health Clinic Senior Adviser, Health Policy Senior Vice President Institute for Health Care West Health Policy Center Research and Improvement Priscilla A. Guild, MSPH Gannett Fleming Sustainable President Laura Helms Reece, DrPH Ventures Corp. Antonio S. Braithwaite, DDS, MPH, PA Gillings School of Global Chief Executive Officer Diplomate, American Board Public Health Alumni Association Rho of Pediatric Dentistry and North Carolina Citizens Sanford Pediatric Dentistry for Public Health UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health advisory COUNCIL Donald A. Holzworth, MS Willard Cates Jr., MD, MPH James R. Hendricks Jr., MS William G. Ross Jr., JD Chair Distinguished Scientist and President Vice President, Environment, Attorney and Visitng Professor Executive in Residence Emeritus Health and Safety (Retired) Duke University Gillings School of Global Public Health FHI 360 Duke Energy Virginia B. Sall James Rosen, MBA, MSPH Keith Crisco, MBA E. Wayne Holden, PhD Co-founder and Director Public Health Foundation Board Chair President and Chief Executive Officer Sall Family Foundation Liaison to Advisory Council N.C. Communities and Business Alliance RTI International Partner Markus Wilhelm Intersouth Partners Michael J. Cucchiara Michael E. Kafrissen, MD, MSPH Chief Executive Officer Managing Partner Research Scientist Strata Solar LLC Marcia A. Angle, MD, MPH Graypants Inc. and Pangea Foods Massachusetts Institute of Technology Adjunct Professor Louise Winstanly, LLB, MSB Nicholas School of the Environment Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH John McConnell Attorney and Medical Ethicist Duke University Gillings Professor of the Practice Chief Executive Officer Chapel Hill, N.C. Gillings School of Global Public Health McConnell Golf William K. Atkinson, PhD, MPH Jeffrey P. Engel, MD Jesse Milan Jr., JD Former President and Chief MEMBERS EMERITI Executive Officer Executive Director Vice President and Director WakeMed Council of State and Territorial Community Health Systems Nancy A. Dreyer, PhD, MPH Epidemiologists Altarum Institute Global Chief of Scientific Affairs Gail H. Cassell, PhD, DSc (hon) Ken Eudy James Patrick O’Connell, PhD, MPH Senior Vice President Vice President, Scientific Affairs Quintiles Outcome (Retired) Chief Executive Officer (Retired) Chief Executive Officer Distinguished Lilly Research Capstrat Acea Biosciences Inc. Carmen Hooker Odom, MS Scholar for Infectious Diseases Jane Smith Patterson Former President Eli Lilly and Co. President Milbank Memorial Fund Jane Patterson & Associates from the dean’s desk 2 introduction 3 6 Features Jonathan Kotch 4 IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF NORTH CAROLINA’S CHILDREN Carmen Samuel-Hodge 6 REDUCING DIABETES RISK, PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS Howard Weinberg 9 15 KEEPING DRINKING WATER SAFE N.C. Institute for Public Health 12 SERVING COMMUNITIES, HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Geni Eng 15 4 FINDING STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY Alice Ammerman 18 HEART-HEALTHY LENOIR COMBATS HEART DISEASE Table of Bill Gentry 20 PREPARING FOR DISASTERS CONTeNTS alumna perspective (Pam Silberman) 22 school news 23 awards & recognitions 27 student internships 29 20 research annual report 34 Our Donors 36 Honor Roll of Donors 37 Fred and Laura Brown 38 Deniese Chaney 42 Linda West Little 45 Jo Anne Earp Tribute Fund 48 29 Annual Fund 51 Barry Popkin 52 Family of Sarah Morrow 58 9 FALL 2013 | 1 from the DEAN’S DESK In 2015, we mark the 75th anniversary 1988 completion of Cane Creek Reser- health. At the same time, our success of the UNC Gillings School of Global voir, a resource that assured adequate accrues to N.C.—through the 5,500 Public Health. In this issue, we focus water supply for people in Chapel Hill or so jobs we create each year due to on some of the many faculty and staff up to the present time. research funding; our 450 or so grad- members and students at the School In the 1990s, the practical, applied uates each year, the majority of whom whose work benefits North Carolina. research of health behavior professors stay in N.C.; and through the knowl- We are committed today, as were those Geni Eng, Jo Anne Earp and others edge we discover and the programs and who came before us, to training tomor- led to increases in mammography use products we develop and disseminate row’s public health leaders for North among low-income, black women in to North Carolinians. Carolina and solving big public health eastern N.C., reducing cancer-related Our future and North Carolina’s future are intertwined inextricably. Charles Kuralt, journalist, UNC alumnus, and host of On the Road committed to and Sunday Morning, understood this when he said at the 1993 UNC North Carolina bicentennial: …Our love for this place is based on the fact that it is, and was meant to be, the problems. We are making the state and health disparities between black and University of the people. its people healthier, safer and stronger. white women. As a public school of public health, These are two examples out of And that is as it should be. As a pub- we are not just co-located in North thousands. lic school of public health, we are of the Carolina. We are embedded in and We make a positive difference for the people. committed to our state. Without being environment and health of North Caro- Thank you for your support of the parochial (we are a global school of linians. This issue provides great proof School! We welcome your feedback at public health, after all), we take seri- of that. I only wish there were space to any time. ously the public in public health and cover all the exciting work we are doing have a long, proud tradition of serving in North Carolina. the state first. Our success benefits the entire U.S. As a UNC faculty member from 1952 and the world, a reality that fuels our to 1982, the late Dr. Dan Okun, Kenan reputation as a premier school of public Distinguished Professor of environ- mental sciences and engineering, taught and conducted research about local drinking water supply and purity. His studies led to the development and DR. Barbara K. Rimer 2 | FALL 2013 INTRODUCTION A glimpse into our work across North Carolina Here at the Gillings School of Global Carolina’s public health challenges and take