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The Office of Alumni Affairs
The office facilitates the participation of over 3,000 alumni in the life of the school and in a very active alumni network. It staffs the formal organization, the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health (AYAPH), which is comprised of graduates of both the M.P.H. and doctoral programs elected to represent the social and professional needs of alumni of the school. It also maintains an information system which helps both current students and graduates maintain contact with classmates and other Yale alumni. In addition, the office serves as an advocate for alumni, ensuring that graduates have appropriate input into school policy. Each year the school, in partnership with AYAPH, sponsors a number of alumni events. An annual membership meeting is held at American Public Health Association, facilitating geographic rotation of meetings nationally. Alumni weekend, held in New Haven each spring, features a professional development program and an awards ceremony honoring outstanding contributions of alumni to the field of public health and/or in service to the school. There are also events for alumni each year that encourage networking and which include students. Among these events are a new student reception, career education day, and alumni receptions hosted by the Dean in key cities across the country. In addition to participation in formal alumni events, graduates of the school are encouraged to contribute both time (mentoring, advising, and recruiting students) and contacts for job and internship searches for students. The school, in turn, provides professional development opportunities for alumni including career counseling, job search assistance, professional networking opportunities, and programs and workshops for professional growth and development. Alumni have an important role in providing input into school policy. They serve in an advisory capacity to the Dean, through their formal association, and on an ad hoc basis (individually, through focus groups, and through alumni club initiatives). In addition, they provide ideas and information on specific issues which are important to the school. In a recent review by the Council on Education for Public Health, the alumni, for their interest, enthusiasm, and abiding loyalty, were deemed one of the school's greatest assets.
Alumni Fund
The Alumni Fund is part of a comprehensive effort to provide ongoing financial support to students. Its annual fund-raising campaigns provide student financial aid at levels representing the equivalent of over $2 million in endowment. These gifts and pledges are critical to ensuring that we are able to attract the best and brightest students to the Yale School of Public Health and help sustain the School's policy of admitting students without regard to financial status. Thanks to intensified efforts by the Fund's Chair person, Elaine Anderson, M.P.H. ‘76, working with our network of class agents and the Fund's Advisory Committee, we have seen significant increases in levels of participation and giving by YSPH alumni over the past five years. We are very grateful to all of the school's donors and volunteers, whose gifts of time and money have helped us achieve these successes. For more information, please contact Margaret.Sasaki@yale.edu.
The School of Public Health, Coat of Arms
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Our thanks to Travis Hedrick, Ph.D., M.P.H. '77, and past president of AYAPH, for presenting us with this shield and its historic background.
The coat of arms incorporated in our current publications was adopted by the Department in May 1996.
The upper portion of the school’s arms is the same as that for the Yale University School of Medicine. These are from the arms of Elihu Yale, the East India merchant and benefactor after whom Yale College is named. The upper arms consist of an ermine field, white with small black stylized tails and the red cross of Saint Patrick, called a saltire. The lower portion of the arms is the C.E.A. Winslow family coat of arms. It consists of a red diagonal bar running from the shield’s upper left to lower right and containing seven gold lozenges. Although the original Winslow arms was in a field of white, the EPH rendering is on a background of Yale blue.
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Thanks to efforts of university-wide faculty and staff as well as talented designers, a mace symbolic of our school has been created. A raised equator of metal bearing the words "Health Promotion" and "Disease Prevention" separated by our EPH heraldic shield encircles a hollow, copper globe representing our fragile world. This signifies the support and protection EPH offers the public both locally and worldwide, which is representative of our mission statement. There is a raised design of Hygeia at the head of the mahogany shaft. Hygeia is the Greek goddess of health and the daughter of Aesculpius, the god of medicine and healing. Our shield also appears on the shaft of the mace and is hand-painted with our school colors.
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