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ALUMNI e-NEWS
Welcome to ALUMNI e-NEWS
Issue 2, February 2003
This issue provides a winter update on what's new and happening at the School.
Please e-mail topics of interest that you would like to hear more about.
For alumni who are close by (and there are more than 2,500 alumni in Los
Angeles County alone), reply cards for two upcoming events are attached
for your convenience.
News you will find here:
2003 Breslow Celebration to Sparkle
A Downtown First: Lunchtime Forum
Faculty Honors
Students--the Most Diverse
Online Giving
Did You Know?
News from You
2003 Breslow Celebration Sparkles with Diamond
and Alumni Gems!
On Monday, March 10, 2003 at the UCLA Faculty Center, we will once again
celebrate the Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture and Dinner. This extraordinary
evening will feature Jared Diamond, professor of geography and public health,
who will discuss "Coca-colonization and Public Health." Always an insightful,
thoughtful, and exciting speaker, Dr. Diamond will address the public health
crisis created in the Third World as a result of the spread of a westernized
life style.
To culminate this special evening of scholarship and friendship, School alumni, faculty, students, and friends will honor eight outstanding alumni for their accomplishments in public health. Selected with care and much discussion by a committee of alumni and faculty, the eight individuals to be inducted into the 2003 Alumni Hall of Fame are:
For Professional Achievement
Harold M. Goldstein, Dr.P.H.
Richard A. Goodman, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.
Keith S. Richman, M.D., M.P.H.
Pauline M. Vaillancourt Rosenau, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Shiing-Jer Twu, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D
For Community Service
Mark Gold, D.Env.
Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, M.P.H.
Please join the School in honoring your fellow alumni in person-if you live close by-or in spirit! The entire evening promises to be a wonderful event.
For more information, please see the invitation and reply card for the 29th Annual Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture at http://www.ph.ucla.edu/ (scroll below the School's logo to the link for the Breslow Lecture). If you wish to attend, please print the reply card and return by February 28, 2003 to UCLA School of Public Health, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772.
Announcing a Downtown First: Meet Me at the Cathedral
Especially for Alumni who work downtown
The Program Committee of the Public Health Alumni Association initiates a new series of educational programs in the Los Angeles community on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (556 West Temple Street, downtown Los Angeles). Its purpose is to connect alumni, especially those who work downtown for this first forum, and other public health professionals with the UCLA School of Public Health and to provide an educational forum for the public health community.
Scheduled over lunchtime, the program, "Getting LA on the Move! Using Health Data to Change Health Policy," will highlight UCLA School of Public Health faculty members, Drs. E. Richard Brown and Antronette Yancey. Both Brown and Yancey will illustrate the use of health data collected by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (California Health Interview Survey--CHIS, http://www.chis.ucla.edu ) to understand diabetes prevalence, risk, and intervention in LA County and, as a result, to influence change in health policy.
Dean Linda Rosenstock, UCLA School of Public Health, Dr. Thomas L. Garthwaite, Director and Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, will also be present to greet the attendees.
If you wish to attend, please print the reply card (found by clicking "Public Health Alumni Association Forum" link below the School's logo at http://www.ph.ucla.edu/), fill in the requested information, and return the card by March 19, 2003 to UCLA School of Public Health, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772. You must RSVP to attend.
Faculty Fantastiks…Faculty Honors
Dr. Lester Breslow, former Dean of the School and professor in the Department of Health Services, will be honored by the Berkeley School of Public Health as a Public Health Hero on March 14, 2003 in Berkeley. The annual awards program recognizes individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievements in the advancement of public health and health care. If you would like to attend, please contact Andrea Lum by phone, 510-643-6382 or e-mail, phaa@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
Dr. John Froines, Director, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health and professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, received the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice's Zweig Community Health Advocate Award in recognition of his commitment to improving the health and well being of people living in Southern California.
Dr. Patti Ganz, Director, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Center Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and professor in the Department of Health Services, was selected as a member of the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors.
Dr. Diana Hilberman, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services and Director of the Program in
Health Policy and Management, has received recognition with national roles: A three-year appointment as chair-elect and then chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA); editorial board member of the Journal of Health Administration Education, AUPHA's peer-reviewed journal; and member, Accrediting Commission on Education in Health Services Administration and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership Blue Ribbon Task Forces on Accreditation.
Dr. Joanne Leslie, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, was elected to the board of Freedom From Hunger.
Dr. Don Morisky, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior- a society of distinguished researchers and scholars in the areas of health behavior, health education, and health promotion.
Dean Linda Rosenstock will be featured in the National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine exhibit "Changing the Face of Medicine: The Rise of America's Women Physicians." The exhibit will celebrate the contributions of American women to medicine and public health from 1850 to the present. In addition, Dr. Rosenstock received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service from the Johns Hopkins University. The award will be presented in May.
To honor Dr. Paul Torrens' 30 years of service to the school, fellow faculty and staff established an endowment in his name for the support of Executive Education in Health Management at the UCLA School of Public Health Department of Health Services. The fund will provide unrestricted support to assure the continuation, growth, and excellence of the Masters of Public Health for Health program (MPHHP).
Students--The Most Diverse
The Association of Schools of Public Health recently released its 2001 Annual
Data Report. UCLA has once again regained its position as the most diverse
school of public health in the U.S. In Fall 2001 (the most recent year of
data available) 50.7% of our students were minority (30.3% Asian, 9.5% Black,
9.5% Hispanic, 1.4% American Indian/Alaskan Native). The complete report
can be found at http://www.asph.org/uploads/adr2001.pdf.
Online Giving
For your convenience, online giving is now available for the School of Public Health at https://giving.ucla.edu/ph/ (best viewed with Internet Explorer browser). To help shape the future of public health and support the training of the next generation of health professionals, you may designate a contribution to either the School's Annual Fund or one of the School's departments-Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Services.
Did You Know?
All alumni of the School are members of the School's Public Health Alumni
Association. If you live locally and would like to participate on any of
the following committees, please e-mail your interest to publichealth@support.ucla.edu.
News From You
If you would like to update your mailing address, have news and information
to pass on to your fellow alumni, or have any questions, please write to
publichealth@support.ucla.edu by replying to this message.
If you would like to unsubscribe, please send a request by replying to this message. If you have previously notified me, I offer my apology in advance. We changed to a new software program and previous information was lost.
Thank you. I look forward to hearing from you.
Susan Kanowith-Klein, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Relations
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
310-825-6464
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