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ALUMNI e-NEWS
Welcome to ALUMNI e-NEWS
Issue 8, March 2005
...with information about and for alumni. If you have news and information
to pass on to your fellow alumni, or have any questions, please write
to publichealth@support.ucla.edu.
News you will find here:
From the Dean's Desk
31st Breslow Distinguished Lecture
2005 Alumni Hall of Fame
New Professional Fees
to start 2005 - 2006
Public Health Alumni
Association (PHAA)
First Ruth Roemer Lecture
Alumni Career Night
Health Services Alumni
Association (HSAA)
2005 Leaders of Today & Tomorrow
Healthcare Collaborative
Forum
New from the Departments
SPH & Faculty in
the News
Looking for a
Job or Employee?
If you…
From the Dean's Desk
I am pleased to announce that U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer will deliver the
31st Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture and Dinner on Monday, May 2, 2005.
Now in her third senate term, Boxer is an advocate for human rights, environmental
protection, health education and disease prevention. Senator Boxer has made
public health issues a priority during her career in congress, and we are
delighted to have the opportunity to hear her speak on issues of critical
importance to our School, our nation and the world.
During the evening of the Breslow Distinguished Lecture and Dinner we
also look forward to introducing this year's new members of the School's
Alumni Hall of Fame. These individuals excelled through the nomination
and selection process, and each honoree has significantly influenced his
or her respective field of public health.
For Professional Achievement
Linda Burhansstipanov, DrPH '74, MSPH '72
James W. LeDuc, PhD '77, MSPH '72
Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH '80
For Community Service
Wendy Arnold, MPH '82
Francine M. Coeytaux, MPH '82
I hope you will join us for a wonderful evening with Senator Boxer, alumni,
faculty, staff, friends and students.
I am also delighted to announce that Jorn Olsen, MD, PhD is the new Chair
of the Department of Epidemiology as of February 3, 2005. Dr. Olsen comes
to UCLA from Denmark where he served as Professor and Head of the Danish
Epidemiologic Science Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark, a position
he held for the last decade. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Jorn Olsen.
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean
Professional Differential Fee (PDF), a Brief History
In 1998, UCLA and UC Berkeley Schools of Public Health first endorsed
the PDF as a measure to bring much-needed funds to the Schools to maintain
and improve the quality of teaching and education and to retain their
national rankings as top schools of public health. (Regular University-wide
fee increases do not return to the Schools.) Although the PDF was not
implemented in the 90s, both Schools remained supportive of the fee structure
change. In the face of continued state budget cuts, discussions of a PDF
were renewed in 2003 - 2004. After being reviewed and supported again
by UCLA and UCB's Schools of Public Health, the plan for a $4,000 PDF
was resubmitted in spring 2004. The UC Board of Regents adopted the PDF
in fall 2004.
The Schools of Public Health at UCLA and UCB join the following professional
schools systemwide who began implementing PDFs since the mid-1990s in
order to enhance their educational missions: the schools of business,
law, medicine, theatre, film and TV, public policy and nursing. These
schools' PDFs for 2005-2006 range from $15,800 (business schools) to $2,900
(nursing).
Although details regarding the implementation of the fee have not been
finalized, it is anticipated that all entering and continuing professional
degree students (MPH, DrPH, DEnv) will be expected to pay the fee beginning
in fall 2005. It is a concern to the School that incoming and returning
students in the professional degree programs will face increased financial
obligations. However, because much of the PDF returns to the School, the
School's first commitment is to invest at least 25% and likely more of
the funds into financial aid to help mitigate the added financial burden.
In addition to financial aid, the School intends to make early investments
that will directly benefit students.
Public Health Alumni Association (PHAA)
First Ruth Roemer Lecture attracts over 200!
Envisioned by PHAA, the Ruth Roemer Lecture Series honors Ruth
Roemer, J.D., Professor Emerita, Health Services, who for five decades
continues to use the law to protect and promote health. The series aims
to connect public health officials - including alumni - with the UCLA
School of Public Health and to provide a dynamic educational forum for
the public health community and the community at large.
The first lecture in the series, "Getting LA on the Move! Individual
and Community Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism" drew a capacity
audience of alumni and other interested community members to the Cathedral
in downtown Los Angeles in mid-January. Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH, Dean,
UCLA School of Public Health and Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA, Director
of Public Health and Health Officer, LA County Dept. of Health Services,
joined Joy Blevins, MS, MFT, MPH'97, Event Co-chair, in welcoming remarks
and honoring Ruth Roemer. The program's speakers provided:
- An overview of LA County Public Health's bioterrorism
readiness (Sharon Grigsby, MBA),
- An example of how Public Health officials would respond to a
smallpox bioterrorist event (Robert Kim-Farley, MD, MPH'75),
- Findings from the LA County Health Survey on bioterrorism
issues (David Eisenman, MD, MSHS'02), and
- Specific information on how individuals and communities can
prepare for and respond to bioterrorism and other disasters (Raymond
Goodman, MD, MPH'72).
A. Belinda Towns, MD, MPH'88 led a highly interactive Q and A.
Present at the event, Professor Roemer received accolades for her tireless
advocacy in public health and recognition for her mentorship, support and
inspiration of countless graduates of the School and her professional colleagues.
The PHAA Program Committee members who spearheaded this event and who
are planning future Roemer Lectures are Co-chair Joy Blevins, MS, MFT,
MPH'97, Maureen Flannery, MPH'81, Clifford Howell, DrPH'76, Co-chair Rosa
Pechersky, DrPH'83, and Karen Swanson, MPH'02.
Career Night for Students
Are you available on Tuesday evening April 5, 2005? The PHAA Student
Support-Alumni Networking Committee is organizing a night of
career-oriented activities for students. To inform students about the
wide range of careers/positions in public health, chairs Cat Wong,
MPH'01 and doctoral candidate Kynna Wright, MPH'99, and committee
members are inviting alumni who represent the many aspects of public
health to speak with students one-on-one and in small groups. Please
e-mail if you would like to participate.
Health Services Alumni Association (HSAA)
Susan Klein, MPH'97, Chair of the 2005 Leaders of Today, Leaders of
Tomorrow Dinner, has fully mobilized her event team for another
excellent program that recognizes leaders in Health Services and raises
critical funds for student scholarships. This year HSAA President David
Krasnow, OD, PhD, MPH'98 is pleased to announce that HSAA will recognize
Alfred E. Mann, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Bionics Corporation and MannKind
Corporation.
Save the date for Thursday evening, May 19, 2005 at UCLA Covel Commons
and check the HSAA website (http://www.uclahpmaa.org)
for details and additional news on HSAA activities.
Healthcare Collaborative at UCLA
...brings together students, alumni, faculty and staff of the UCLA
School of Public Health, The Anderson School at UCLA, and the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and members of the Southern
California healthcare community. The Collaborative facilitates the
exchange of information and services to enhance the development of
health professionals and organizations in California, thus helping them
to keep ahead of the dynamic healthcare marketplace. Throughout the
year the Collaborative hosts MANAGEMENT and POLICY FORUMS during the evening
at the Anderson School, C-315 Entrepreneurs Hall.
Please see http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/mphhp/thc.html
for detailed program and information. Upcoming dates include: March 10,
2005, April 14, 2005, May 12, 2005, June 9, 2005
New from the Departments
The Department of Health Services
In October, the Healthcare Executives of Southern California presented
Paul Torrens, Professor, Health Services and Director, Executive-Style MPH Program
in Health Services Management, with their 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award
for mentoring students and helping with the development of their professional
careers.
The Department of Epidemiology
Jorn Olsen, MD, PhD has joined the School as the new Chair of
the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Olsen is one of the world's most
renowned researchers in the field of epidemiology with 325 peer-reviewed
publications in English, including 69 since 2002 and another 42 publications
in Danish. He is the author or editor of three textbooks
on epidemiology, and co-author of another four books. He founded the Danish
National Birth Cohort, a study that has followed 100,000 mothers and children,
and is Director of the Danish National Research
Foundation. He has served as a consultant to the NIH and the European
equivalents to NIH in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium and the United
Kingdom.
Nathan Wong, Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology, has recently
co-published through McGraw Hill a new edition of Preventive Cardiology.
SPH and Faculty
in the News -- Snapshot in Time
Annette Maxwell: UCLA Researcher Studies Tobacco's Impact
on Fillipinos, Daily Breeze,12-13-04
E. Richard Brown: State Helps Cure Kids' Health Woes,
Los Angeles Times, 12-15-04
Linda Rosenstock: Spending the Money, "Talk of
the City," KPCC-89.3 FM, 12-20-04
Gregory Stock: $50,000 Cloned Kitten Truly Isn't One
of a Kind, Los Angeles Times, 12-23-04
William Comanor: How Safe Are America's Medicines, Web
MD, 12-22-04
Stuart Schweizter: Vioxx and FDA Approval of Medications,
WBBM-CBS (Chicago), 12-21-04; Medical Malaise: Meltdown at the FDA, www.whyfiles.org
Jared Diamond: Monumental 'Collapse,' Newsweek, 1-17-05
issue (plus numerous reviews in leading newspapers/periodicals worldwide)
Linwood Pendleton: Bay Is Cleaner, But Rain Is a Problem,
Los Angeles
Times, 1-14-05
Philip Harber: Effect of Mold Due to Recent Rains in
Southern
California, City News Service, 1-12-05
Mark Schuster: Commented on finding of NBC/People Magazine
survey
examining teenagers' attitudes about sex, Today Show, 1-19-05; Not
So-Sweet-16, Reuters, 1-19-05; www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6839072
David Heber: Importance of protein in weight loss program,
First For
Women Magazine, 2-7-05
Zuo-Feng Zhang: Take Two Tea Bags and Call Me, U.S.
News and World
Report, 1-17-05 issue
Patricia Ganz: Radio program features a study on the quality
of life experienced by younger women who get breast cancer, UCOP radio show
on KNX-1070 AM (CBS LA affiliate), www.ucop.edu/sciencetoday/pages/archive/transcripts/2005/
sci874.html
Looking for a Job or Employee?
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job website that focuses on positions in all areas of public health.
Check this out at http://www.publichealthjobs.net/
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