Last Updated

19 Jul 2008

Faculty Executive Committee

Biostatistics, To be selected (7/1/08-6/30/10)

Community Health Sciences, To be selected (7/1/08-6/30/10)

Eckhert, Curtis (EHS, 3/26/08-6/30/09)

Glik, Deborah, Chair (CHS, 7/1/08-6/30/10)

Godwin, Hilary (Ex Officio)

Layne, Scott (EPI, 7/1/07-6/30/09)

Ortega, Alex (HS, 7/1/08-6/30/10)

Rosenstock, Linda (Ex Officio)

Student representative

Academic Computing Committee

Year-end (2006-07) Committee Report (2007-08 not yet available)

Greenland, Sander (Chair)                             

Bastani, Roshan (Ex Officio)

Kiser, Kathleen (Ex Officio)

Upchurch, Dawn

Weiss, Rob

Student Representative

Assignment 

• Identify ongoing needs for instructional computing lab within the School and for student computing lab services provided through the Biomed library.

Ad Hoc Committee on Compentencies

Membership to be determined during Fall Quarter

Assignment 

• Review CEPH requirement that School of Public Health must adopt explicit competencies and learning objectives as part of newly adopted accreditation criteria. Review Council on Linkages and ASPH efforts to develop public health competencies, and develop recommendations for a School response to the new CEPH accreditation criterion regarding competencies.

Community & Alumni Relations Committee

Year-end (2006-07) Committee Report (2007-08 not yet available)

Detels, Roger (Chair)

Abel, Emily

Anderson, Sarah (Ex Officio)

El Wardani, Nile

Goodman, Ray

Kagawa-Singer, Margie

Sonego, John (Ex Officio)

Student Representative

Assignment 

• Identify and organize select educational activities throughout the year.

• Consider and propose strategies for increasing alumni involvement in and support of School programs and development efforts.

Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee

Year-end (2006-07) Committee Report (2007-08 not yet available)

Ortega, Alex (Chair)

Belin, Tom

Cochran, Susan

Galal, Osman

Hinds, Bill

Inkelas, Moira

Kominski, Gerald (Ex Officio)

Student Representative

Assignment 

• Continue ongoing review of course actions and program changes. 

• Complete work to develop a prototype Schoolwide curriculum (e.g., an area of emphasis or concentration) in global health that promotes participation by students from all Departments.  

• Consider creation of a Schoolwide MPH for MDs and MD students to accommodate expected enrollment growth through the PRIME program.

Evaluation Committee

Year-end (2006-07) Committee Report (2007-08 not yet available)

Hagigi, Fred (Chair)

Alkon, Ellen (LAC DHS)

Anderson, Sarah (Ex Officio)

Bonta, Diana (Kaiser)

Iguchi, Martin

Kominski, Gerald (Ex Officio)

Valentine, Jane

Student Representative

Assignment 

• Review results from the 2006-07 Student Exit Surveys.

•  Work with Ad Hoc Committee on Competencies to identify quantifiable measures of progress towards competencies.

International Health Committee

Year-end (2007-08) Committee Report

Proposal for DrPH in Global Health (2007-08)

Harrison, Gail (Chair)

Armenian, Haroutune

Bastani, Roshan (Ex Officio)

Froines, John

Kim-Farley, Bob

Morisky, Don

Neumann, Charlotte

Rimoin, Anne

Yancey, Toni

Student Representative

Subcommittee on DrPH in Global Health

Armenian, Haroutune (Chair)

Afifi, Abdelmonem

Breslow, Lester

Morisky, Don

Shafir, Shira (Ex Officio)

Yancey, Toni

Assignment 

• Identify opportunities for our graduates to work internationally.

• Promote the new global health concentration.

• Explore creation of a DrPH global health concentration, modeled on the global health concentration in the MPH program.

Laboratory, Equipment and Research Committee

Year-end (2007-08) Committee Report  (not yet available)

Liu, Simin (Chair)

Eckert, Curt

Kiser, Kathleen (Ex Officio)

Que Hee, Shane

Robbins, Wendie

Student Representative

Assignment 

• Continue to consider and report on possible strategies for funding the School’s laboratory and equipment needs, perhaps involving solicitation of funds from foundations or other private entities. 

•  Identify whether there are resources that could be more efficiently shared across laboratories and departments.

Students Affairs Committee

Year-end (2007-08) Committee Report (not yet available)

Ambrose, Rich (Chair)

Gorbach, Pamina

Hilberman, Diana

Kitchen, Christina

Kominski, Gerald (Ex Officio)

Levy, Natasha (Ex Officio)

Wallace, Steve

Student Representative

Assignment 

• Select student to receive Schoolwide awards based on Departmental nominations; administering requests for student travel funding; selecting the School’s candidate for the Delta Omega Poster competition; and reviewing special actions for admissions.

•  Initiate regular meetings with representatives from the Public Health Student Association to discuss all issues related to student affairs, as per recommendation of the CEPH site-visit report to the School.