As 2013 begins, some highlights of 2012 and . . .
A shout-out to our students who help to make this School amazing.
2012 Highlights Gillings School of Global Public Health: A lot happens here
We reinforced our commitment to diversity. WE,THE SCHOOL'S LEADERS, ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT THE SCHOOL IS A DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, CIVIL AND WELCOMING COMMUNITY. Diversity and inclusion are central to our mission – to improve public health, promote individual well-being and eliminate health disparities across North Carolina and around the world… Complete text
In 2012, we worked in and with every county in North Carolina‌
…and in more than 50 countries in the world.
Public health and medical student Naman Shah volunteered in Guyana.
Learning, celebrating and creating good memories!
Students were recognized Our students for their many accomplishments. They’re smart, talented, creative, amazingly energetic – and making the world a better place. They’re innovators and entrepreneurs who realize that changing the world means taking innovations to scale. Students’ public health week flash mob!
Student entrepreneurs hit their stride. Alice Wang, ESE doctoral student and KM Water Solutions team member, won 1st prize in UNC’s first Social Innovation Incubator.
Liz Morris,
Wang fills jugs with filtered water in Cambodia (left) and accepts award with Dr. Mark Sobsey.
ESE master’s alumna, founder and CEO of Sanitation Creations
Undergraduate entrepreneur won $100K scholarship to launch company. Tara Seshan, recent ESE BSPH graduate, won a prestigious Thiel Fellowship to develop Chek.Up, a venture focused on creating value in high quality, powerful data. She and her colleagues are building a mobilebased app for chronic disease patients.
Student-led Minority Health Conference was bigger, better than ever.
Master’s students Chassidy Hanley (Health Behavior) and LeVelton Thomas (Health Policy and Management)
MHC is the oldest and largest student-run health conference in the U.S.
Doctoral student published high-impact findings.
Poison center data play vital role in predicting methadone-related deaths. --PLoS One, 07/19/12
Nabarun Dasgupta, epidemiology doctoral student, not only developed an exciting health app but also has helped to reduce drug-related deaths in communities around N.C. by partnering with key people in communities.
Generous donors and organizations supported SPH students. Gillings Dissertation Awards
Allison Groves Health Behavior
Heather Paich Nutrition
World Vision Internships
Ryan Cronk ESE
Lauren Snyder Maternal and Child Health
Student awards—from UNC and other sources APHA’s 2012 Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health PostProfessional Student Award
Phillips Ambassador
Ashley Kranz
Jennifer Smith
2012 Barbara Jordan Health Scholar
Jessica Broadus
Carolina Impact Award, Campus Compact
Camille McGirt
2012 Graduate School Impact Awards— students whose research made a difference in N.C.
Peter Balvanz HB alumnus
Brooke Hoots EPID alumna
Mehul Patel EPID doctoral student
Meagan Vaughn EPID doctoral student
Catherine Vladutiu EPID doctoral student
Stephanie Watkins EPID doctoral student
Health Behavior capstone team recognized Marvin Collins Planning Award for Graduate Student Project Planning awarded to a Health Behavior capstone team with the Orange County (N.C.) Department on Aging
Phoebe Goldberg, Laura Major, Hannah Prentice-Dunn, Rebecca Woodruff and Marcia Perritt
There are so many more great students!
Research 2012— strong, with impact UNC-Chapel Hill entered research funding top 10. School faculty members’ excellent research track records continued. We launched pilot research projects with Cambridge University.
Faculty members’ research findings brought new insights African-American men who believe that they should respond to stress with stoicism and emotional control report more depressive symptoms. -- American Journal of Public Health, 3/12 Wizdom Powell Hammond, PhD Health Behavior
1 in 88 children in the United States has autism spectrum disorder. N.C. rates are slightly higher than average U.S. rate. -- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 3/12
Julie Daniels, PhD Epidemiology and MCH
Faculty members’ research made a difference globally. Text messaging and other mobile phone apps may be effective/costefficient in improving health outcomes, especially in developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012 Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD Health Policy and Management
HPV vaccine, which targets the most common strains of the virus, likely would not cause other cancer-causing HPV strains to develop in vaccinated people. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 06/18/12
Jennifer Smith, PhD Epidemiology
SPH faculty traveled the world to improve health. School plays key role in launch of Lancet series on family planning, led by Herbert Peterson, MD. Increasing access to family planning: the key to achieving United Nations targets for maternal health, eradication of poverty, education, and gender equality. Lancet, 7/10/12. Herbert B. Peterson, MD Maternal and Child Health
More than three-quarters of Chinese adults have at least one risk factor for Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease. -- Obesity 7/19/12 Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD Nutrition
SPH obesity experts reported on heart disease and diet beverages— another piece of diet puzzle.
Kiyah Duffey, PhD Nutrition
► Healthiest people eat a prudent diet and no diet beverages. ► 2nd healthiest eat a prudent diet + diet beverages. ► Western diet increases risk of heart disease with or without diet beverages. "Dietary patterns matter: … (CARDIA) Study”
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2/12 Barry M. Popkin, PhD Nutrition
Faculty members showed that preventive oral care pays for itself. Investing in preventive oral health care for young children at risk of dental disease…..
Sally C. Stearns, PhD HPM
improves oral health, overall quality of life; probably pays for itself; may save $ in fewer hospitalizations, lower future dental costs. -- Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 8/27/12
Gary Rozier, DDS, MPH HPM
Faculty members were recognized for excellence in many areas. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) 2012 Alumni Award for leadership and contribution in public health
2012 Gertrude M. Cox Award for significant contributions in statistics
Amy H. Herring, ScD Biostatistics
UNC’s Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty
Leah M. Devlin, DDS Health Policy and Management
Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH Epidemiology and Medicine
Faculty members recognized Health and Law Bioethics Award at conference in Kiev
Dean M. Harris, JD Health Policy and Management
Carolina Women's Leadership Council Faculty-to-Faculty Mentoring Award
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD Health Policy and Management
Awards to our faculty members Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award
Gary Koch, PhD Biostatistics Continuous excellence in service to the broad public health community
Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award
John E. Larsh Jr. Award for Mentorship
Pranab Kumar Sen, PhD Biostatistics, Statistics and Operations Research Exemplifies qualities of mentoring and commitment to students
Edward G. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching
William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH
Suzanne Maman, PhD
Medicine
Health Behavior
Achievements of alumni and contributions to public health
Career-long excellence in teaching, broadly defined and including activities inside and outside the classroom
We celebrated teaching! February was Celebrate Teaching! Month. First student-selected, Innovations in Teaching awards Teaching Innovation Award recipients (l-r): Drs. John Paul, Rebecca Fry, Amy Herring, Linda Adair, Charles Poole, Kurt Ribisl and Sherri Green. Dr. Diane Kelly not pictured.
Spring Commencement Dr. Howard Koh spoke at SPH 2012
Faculty members Drs. Suzanne Maman, Geni Eng, Anna Maria Siega-Riz and Amy Herring attending commencement ceremonies.
Howard Koh, MD, MPH, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, delivered an inspiring keynote address.
Spring Commencement 2012
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They did it !!!
Health Behavior leadership: changing of the guard as JoAnne Earp stepped down and Leslie Lytle began her term as chair
Leslie Lytle, PhD, chair, Health Behavior, and Jo Anne Earp, ScD, former chair, posed together at University Day, October 2012.
2012 UNC Distinguished Alumni Awards went to two SPH alumni
Deborah Parham Hopson, PhD, associate administrator for HIV/AIDS, U.S. DHHS
Greg Allgood, MSPH, PhD, director of the P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water Program
Alumnus and adjunct faculty member: champion of change
The White House selected alumnus Adam Searing as “a Champion of Change" for achievements as a health care advocate in North Carolina. Adam Searing, MPH, JD, SPH alum and adjunct faculty member, receives a U.S. flag from U.S. Rep. David E. Price (N.C.).
ExcellenceStaff in Excellence action— Sherry Sherry Rhodes received the School’s Staff Rhodes, a Excellence Award on Oct. 26 —the highest honor given to staff members. resource and guide for all "Sherry really exemplifies what the award is about," said Kathy Barboriak, PhD, students assistant dean for information technology at the School and chair of the award selection committee.
"Her work has a real impact, not only because of what she does, but how she does it - through collaboration, inclusion and adaptability, values that are central to our mission."
Water in our World is UNC’s first two-year pancampus theme. Jamie Bartram, PhD, gave the 2012 University Day talk—a great honor. Our excellence in water has never been clearer or its need greater.
Cohen spoke at 2012 December Commencement Myron S. Cohen, MD, spoke at fall commencement, December 16, 2012 Myron S. Cohen, MD J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine Professor of Epidemiology Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health
"Through his internationally-recognized scholarship, Mike Cohen epitomizes the vast power of a research university and its people to help tackle the world's greatest problems." -- Chancellor Holden Thorp
There are no wrong doors... Whatever doors you choose, there will always be great dots to connect as you look backwards. Tenacity is just as important as brain...If you are committed to an idea, you must go forward. Take chances, be tenacious, and your talents will triumph. -- Myron Cohen, 12/16/12
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2013 Commencement speaker – Josh Nesbit Josh Nesbit, CEO, Medic Mobile will deliver the Gillings School of Global Public Health commencement keynote address.
Josh Nesbit, CEO, Medic Mobile
Founded by students at Stanford, Medic Mobile uses mobile phones to efficiently gather health data and assist medical workers with patient follow-up, vaccine adherence, and appointment reminders.
A year ends and another begins
Photo by Michael Hobbs
A year ended; 2013 begins.The urgency of public health is now, today.
Best wishes for 2013! Photo by Arindam Pal