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APHA and ASPH Hold Annual Meetings and EPH Awards Alumni Distinguished Service Awards in San FranciscoThe American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) recently held overlapping meetings in San Francisco, with APHA meeting November 16-19 and ASPH meeting November 15-18. APHA is the world’s largest organization of public health professionals. Annual meeting attendees included, among others, students and faculty from schools of public health, public health professionals from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and community health organizations, and health care providers. Approximately 25 Yale faculty and students made presentations at the meeting. Administrators from EPH’s career services, admissions, doctoral and alumni offices and the library also attended because the meeting included a career fair, the opportunity to recruit MPH and Ph.D. students, and dealt with issues involving alumni and special studies, distance learning and information technology. ASPH represents the deans, faculty and students of schools of public health. This year’s meeting focused on ways of educating undergraduates in public health, a topic which EPH is currently pursuing with Yale College, and the future incorporation of additional material into the MPH curriculum in response to the Institute of Medicine’s recent report on public health education. A highlight of the meeting for the EPH contingent was the November 17 reception organized by the EPH alumni office and co-hosted by EPH and the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health. Approximately 150 people were on hand for the presentation of EPH’s Alumni Distinguished Service Awards to Harris Pastides, ‘77MPH, ‘80Ph.D., professor of Epidemiology in the University of South Carolina’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, outgoing Dean of the Arnold School of Public Health and the new Vice President of Research and Health Services for the University of South Carolina, and Executive Director of the University’s Research Foundation, and Lloyd Novick, MD, ’71MPH, Commissioner of Health of Onondaga County, New York and Professor of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. The Alumni Distinguished Service Award was established in 1999 to recognize the contributions and achievements of alumni who have distinguished careers in academic public health and public health practice. Criteria include outstanding leadership in academic public health or public health practice, contribution to community and society, and mentoring of young professionals. Pastides’ major research interests and experience are in the fields of occupational and environmental epidemiology, and environmental health impact assessment. As an advisor to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the World Health Organization, he has provided consultation to countries in Africa, Asia and South America. He currently serves as Chairperson of the Diversity Council of ASPH and is serving a second term as a Director-at-Large on the Board of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health. Novick has had a distinguished career in public health practice as a commissioner of health in three states and in his current position, and in academic public health and preventive medicine as the author or editor of numerous books and articles. His commitment to both public health practice and scholarly writing has made him an opinion leader and has enabled him to transmit ideas to public health academics and practitioners. -Story by Christy Gordon. Sources: |
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