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Rosemary Barber-Madden, Ed.D., former director of the Center for Population and Family Health’s Maternal and Child Health Program, gained emerita status and is now clinical professor emerita of public health.
Joan E. Bertin, J.D., clinical professor, Center for Population and Family Health, has been appointed executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance of over 40 national non-profit organizations.
Moise Desvarieux, M.D., Ph.D., was the keynote speaker at the Paris meeting of the French institute of Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology, co-sponsored by the international Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, INSERM, the assistance Publique-Hospitals of Paris and WHO, UNAIDS. He and colleagues Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr. P.H., and Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D., D.Sc., published a paper in April in the American Journal of Public Health describing a new risk index for heterosexual transmission of HIV.
Jeffrey Fagan, Ph.D., director, Center for Violence Prevention and Research, was a member of a recently concluded National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committee on the assessment of Family Violence interventions. Fagan is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, and the National institute of Mental Health’s Violence and Traumatic Stress Review Group, among other groups.
Recent work by Patrick Kinney, Ph.D., funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood institute, has uncovered new evidence of an association between lifetime exposure to ozone and pulmonary function. Kinney has also obtained two new grants focused on the problem of asthma in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx, including a four-year National institute of Environmental Health Sciences award for a multidisciplinary effort against the illness [see related article].
Michael P. O’Connor, Ed.D., associate dean for finance and administration, was cited by the New York State assembly for exemplary service to the community, specifically, his extensive volunteering as a girls basketball coach for the Police Athletic League. He has also been recognized for his basketball activities with children by the Catholic Youth Organization of New York.
The Division of Environmental Health Sciences announces a new faculty member, Manuela A. Orjuela, M.D., assistant professor of clinical public health and clinical pediatrics. in addition, Greg Freyer, Ph.D., and Wei Zheng, Ph.D., have received new grants from the National institute of Environmental Health Sciences to continue their research on Bloom’s Syndrome and lead-induced neurotoxicity, respectively.
Angela Aidala, Ph.D., and Joyce Moon Howard, Dr. P.H., spoke on AIDS/HIV issues at the Eighth Annual Health Services Research Symposium, sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Foundation, inc., and the United Hospital Fund.
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