Harvard Public Health Review Dean of the Faculty Julio Frenk Alumni Council As of November 2010 Officers Royce Moser, Jr., mph ’65 President Elsbeth Kalenderian, mph ’89 President-Elect Anthony Dias, mph ’04 Secretary Mark S. Clanton, mph ’90 Immediate Past President Alumni Councilors 2008-2011 G. Rita Dudley-Grant, MPH ‘84 Sean Dunbar, SM ‘08* Maxine Whittaker, MPH ‘86
Visiting Committee Jeffrey P. Koplan, MPH’78 Chair Ruth L. Berkelman Joshua Boger Walter Clair Nicholas N. Eberstadt, ’77 Tore Godal Jo Handelsman Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Bancroft Littlefield Nancy T. Lukitsh Vickie M. Mays Michael H. Merson Anne Mills Kenneth Olden John W. Rowe Bernard Salick Burton Singer
Board of Dean’s advisors Jeanne B. Ackman Theodore Angelopoulos George D. Behrakis Katherine S. Burke Jack Connors, Jr. Jamie A. Cooper-Hohn Antonio O. Garza C. Boyden Gray Rajat K. Gupta Mala Gaonkar Haarmann Richard L. Menschel emeritus Roslyn B. Payne Swati A. Piramal Alejandro Ramirez Carlos E. Represas Richard W. Smith Howard Stevenson Samuel O. Thier
2009-2012 Marina Anderson, mph ’03 Rey de Castro, SD ’00 Cecilia Gerard, SM ’09* 2010-2013 Teresa Chahine, SD ’10 Sameh El-Saharty, MPH ‘91 Chandek Ghosh, MPH ‘00
The Harvard Public Health Review is published three times a year for supporters and alumni of the Harvard School of Public Health. Its readers share a commitment to the School’s mission: advancing the public’s health through learning, discovery, and communication. Harvard Public Health Review Harvard School of Public Health Office for External Relations Third Floor, East Atrium 401 Park Drive Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (617) 384-8991 Please visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/review and email comments and suggestions to review@hsph.harvard.edu. Dean of the Faculty Julio Frenk T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development Vice Dean for External Relations Ellie Starr Associate Vice Dean for Communications Julie Fitzpatrick Rafferty Editor Madeline Drexler Senior Art Director Anne Hubbard Assistant Editor Amy Roeder
*Class Representative
Principal Photographer Kent Dayton
For information about making a gift to the Harvard School of Public Health, please contact:
Contributing Writers Sara Rimer, Debra Bradley Ruder, Richard Saltus
Ellie Starr Vice Dean for External Relations Office for External Relations Harvard School of Public Health Third Floor, East Atrium 401 Park Drive Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (617) 384-8970 or estarr@hsph.harvard.edu For information regarding alumni relations and programs, please contact, at the above address: Jim Smith, Assistant Dean for Alumni Affairs (617) 998-8813 or jsmith@hsph.harvard.edu www.hsph.harvard.edu/give
Cover Kent Dayton/HSPH © 2010–2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College