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EPH Faculty and Students Participate
in APHA Annual Meeting
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 From left, second year MPH students Enid Castro, KaSandra Rogiers, and Nabila Alibhai display the poster representing their paper, "Erosion of the Maternal and Child Health Care Infrastructure in Connecticut: Fewer Resources for More Patients," which they worked on with Jann Dalton of the March of Dimes, Connecticut Chapter and John Collins of the Bridgeport Community Health Center. |
APHA is the world's largest organization of public health professionals. This year's APHA meeting focused on the impact of environmental factors, which are related to certain disease outbreaks and contribute to health disparities, on public health. Topics addressed included environmental justice for minority and underserved communities, creating healthy communities through the built environment, and environmental health and globalization.
Many faculty members and students from EPH, the medical school and the nursing school presented their research on a wide range of topics at the meeting. Administrators from EPH's career services, admissions, doctoral and alumni offices, and the library also attended.
A highlight of the meeting for the EPH contingent was the November 8 reception, organized and hosted by the EPH alumni office, at which approximately 100 people were on hand for the presentation of EPH's 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award to Willard “Ward” Cates, Jr., '71 M.D., '71 M.P.H. Cates is currently Chair of the Executive Committee for the National Institutes of Health's HIV Prevention Trials Network and President/CEO of Family Health International's Institute for Family Health. The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes an alumnus/a who exemplifies the highest level of achievement in leadership, service to Yale and service to the public.
 Michael Merson, MD, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor and Dean of Public Health, presents the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award to Willard "Ward" Cates, Jr., '71 MD, '71 MPH. |
In 1974, Cates joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its Abortion Surveillance Branch and was Chief of the unit from 1975 to 1982, when he became the Director of CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. He went on to become Director of CDC's Division of Training in 1991, and in 1995 joined Family Health International.
Cates, who is board certified in General Preventive Medicine, specializes
in epidemiology and serves as Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the
University of North Carolina, Emory University, and the University of
Michigan. He has authored or co-authored over 400 scientific publications.
Cates has received numerous awards and honors, including the Shultz Award
from APHA for his research contributing to the health of American women
and the Thomas Parran Award from the American STD Association. He was
elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1998.
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Michelle Silverio, a second-year MPH student in the Division of Health Policy and Administration and author on the study "Parental Expectations and Satisfaction: Experience of a Community-Based Mental Health Clinic," displays the poster representing the study's findings at APHA's Annual Meeting. In addition to Silverio, other authors on the study included Komail Abbas and Elizabeth King, both second-year MPH students, and Alice Forrester, PhD, Pam Hubner, MA, and Louis Massari, MPH. |
–Story by Christy Gordon
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