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ALUMNI e-NEWS
Welcome to ALUMNI e-NEWS
Issue 6, June 2004...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
School's New Look - New
Website
Breslow Celebration and Outstanding
Alumni
Nominations * 2005 Alumni
Hall of Fame
Public Health Alumni
Association (PHAA)
Alumni and Students Connect
Health Services Alumni
Association (HSAA)
Come for Dinner * Stay for Golf
1st Alumni Directory
SPH & Faculty in
the News
News from Alumni
If you…
From the Dean's Desk
Finals are over and graduation is here. Excitement is in
the air. On June 18 the School will graduate 262 students. We are proud
to introduce our new public health professionals to the world: 132 M.P.H.s,
48 M.P.H.s for Health Professionals, 43 M.S.s, 30 Ph.D.s, 5 Dr.P.H.s, and
4 D.Env.s.
Dr. America Bracho, executive director of Latino Health Access,
a center for health promotion and disease prevention will be our commencement
speaker. She will speak on the challenges and health risks faced by immigrant
communities and discuss Latino Health Access programs that address multiple
health needs of Latinos in Orange County, California.
Dr. Bracho's remarks will be particularly apt as the School has long recognized
a critical need to address healthcare challenges of immigrant and underserved
populations. As a result, the School has recently created the Center
to Eliminate Health Disparities. The Center will use its findings
to enact health policy at the local, state and federal levels and engage
in advocacy activities to keep the issues of health disparities in the public
and legislative focus. Drs. Roshan Bastani and Antronette Yancey will lead
the Center, made possible by seed support from The California Endowment,
Ralph and Shirley Shapiro and Dean's Advisory Board members Tom Epley and
Linnae Anderson.
I am also pleased to welcome Robert Kaplan, Ph.D. to our
School. An internationally recognized scholar in health sciences, Dr. Kaplan
comes to us from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
and will become the new chair of the Health Services Department.
Most importantly, I wish to thank all of you who have supported
the School this past year with your contributions. We raised twice as much
as last year for the annual fund due to your generosity. This generosity
translates directly into our support for our students and learning environment,
one of our top fundraising priorities. At a recent Honors and Awards Ceremony,
the students clearly expressed their great appreciation for support received
from our alumni and friends. Thank you.
With warm wishes for a good summer,
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean
School's New Look
The School's website (www.ph.ucla.edu)
has a fresh appearance. Be sure to check out the news at the 'Alumni and
Friends' section (www.ph.ucla.edu/alumni.html)
including photos of alumni, faculty, students and friends at the 30th Anniversary
of the Breslow Distinguished Lecture and Dinner (www.ph.ucla.edu/alumni_hall_lester_pics.html)
and the new inductees into the School's Alumni Hall of Fame.
Nominations...2005 Alumni Hall of Fame
It's time to submit nominations of outstanding alumni for next year's Alumni
Hall of Fame. Please see www.ph.ucla.edu/alumni_hall_call.html
for information and instructions and submit nominations by Wednesday, October
24, 2004.
You can read all about the 2004 Alumni Hall of Fame honorees, Stanley
Azen, PhD '69, Robert Kim-Farley, MD, MPH '75, Angela Oh, JD, MPH '81 and
Irwin Shorr, MPH '72, MPS in the June issue of the Public
Health Magazine.
Public Health Alumni Association (PHAA)
Connecting Alumni and Students
The Student Support & Alumni Networking Committee has
continued to organize career nights for students to discuss careers in public
health and offer advice to students, including information on internships
and jobs. More than 70 students and alumni attended the April high-energy
evening of conversation, job seeking and informational interviewing. More
such events are being planned for the next academic year.
Alumni present at the April event included: Elaine Cheung, MPH
'03, Gale Feldman, MPH '96, Maureen Flannery, MPH '81, Betsy Swanson Hollinger,
MPH '97, David Swanson Hollinger, MSW, MPH '99, Laura Ojeda, MPH '98, Katherine
Minnium, MPH '96, Elaine Robinson-Frank, MPH '98, Hoa Su, MPH '98, Marcela
Tetta, MPH '00, Erin Wilson, MPH'02, Kitty Lim, MS '02, Marc Strassburg,
PhD '81, David Krasnow, OD, PhD, MPH '98, Christopher Mardesich, JD, MPH
'98, Nancy Monk, MPH '87, Dorothy Seleski, MBA, MPH '87 and Catharina Wong,
MPH '01 who headed the organizing committee.
If you would like to participate in future career nights, have jobs to offer
graduating students, have information about student internships, or would
like to talk about careers in your chosen area of public health, please
e-mail PHAA.
Health Services Alumni Association (HSAA)
Leaders of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow
This past May the Annual "Leaders of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow"
Dinner honored Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, Wellpoint Health
Networks, Inc. and the graduating Class of 2004. In addition, extraordinary
alumnus Robert Blair, MPH '88 received the Ira Alpert Service
Award for his contributions to the Health Services Department and to the
School of Public Health.
This annual event was again a success in raising critical scholarship funds
for worthy students in the Department of Health Services. Kudos to Mildred
Sterz, MPH '01 and the entire HSAA Board of Directors (www.uclahpmaa.org/board.phtml)
for their hard work! For images of this gala event, go to www.uclahpmaa.org/leaders_2004.phtml.
Fore! The UCLA Golf Tournament
HSAA will hold its first golf tournament on Monday, October 11th at the
beautiful La Canada Flintridge Country Club. Tee times will start at 8:00
a.m. Check www.uclahpmaa.org for
more information.
Presses Are Rolling... First Alumni Directory
Available in July, the School's first alumni directory will be a valuable
resource containing personal, academic and business information on all of
the School's alumni. With this directory you will be able to locate and
network with colleagues and friends in your specialty, geographic area,
or class. If you wish to order a directory and have not already done so,
please phone customer service for Harris Publishing Company at 1-800-877-6554.
SPH and Faculty in the News - Snapshot in Time
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: Hunger in Los Angeles
County Affects More than 200,000 Low-Income Adults, Another 560,000 at Risk,
Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press Telegram, 6-3-04
David Heber: Taking a Second Look at Soy, Baltimore Sun,
6-7-04 and Adults Acknowledge Weight Issues, Los Angeles Times, 5-31-04
Mark Schuster: Teens and Summer: A Dangerous Mix, Seattle
Times, 5-29-04
Gerald Kominski: Coalition Sets Sights on Workers Without
Healthcare Insurance, Los Angeles Times 5-16-04 and All May Pay for Uninsured,
Los Angeles Daily News, 5-14-04
Beate Ritz: Chairs Sit Well with Laborers, Los Angeles
Times, 5-26-04
Linda Rosenstock: Lack of parks and recreational areas
for Los Angeles Children, Los Angeles Times, KNBC-TV, KNX-1070 AM and La
Opinion, 4-28-04
Steven Wallace: A New Strategy for Immigrants' Healthcare,
Christian Science Monitor, 4-2-04.
News from you…
Robert Kim-Farley, MD, MPH '75 retired from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention after a 27-year career in the US Public Health Service
and was appointed as the Director of the new Division of Communicable Disease
Control and Prevention at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
He will oversee the Public Health Laboratory and the Public Health Programs
of Acute Communicable Disease Control, Immunization, STD, TB and Veterinary
Public Health. Dr. Kim-Farley is a Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA SPH
with a joint appointment in the Departments of Epidemiology and Community
Health Sciences.
Lisa Kramer, MPH '03, has just moved to Indonesia where
she is the HIV/AIDS, TB and Infectious Diseases Advisor for USAID. Ms. Kramer
will help develop country strategy for treating HIV/AIDS and TB as well
as other infectious diseases, such as malaria. She will manage the programs,
travel to the provinces for site visits and meet with implementing partners.
Darlene Mininni, PhD, MPH '87 has just finished writing a book
called "The Emotional Toolkit: 7 Essential Mind-Body Strategies To
Help Women Lead Happier Lives" (St. Martin's Press).
Due out early in 2005, the book is based, in part, on the course LifeSkills
that Dr. Mininni created for undergraduate women at UCLA.
If you...
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pass on to your fellow alumni, or have any questions, please email publichealth@support.ucla.edu.
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