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Class Notes
1990s
JAMES (JIM) DAHL 93MPH is a nursing home administrator at Golden Hill Health Care Center in Milford, Conn. He has been involved in senior care and rehabilitation for several years, including in California and Illinois. He has become interested in the strategic direction of the industry and ways to educate the public to better prepare for retirement.
“To me, this is the quiet crisis in health care,” he writes, noting that Europe and Japan also face an aging population scenario. “It will have public health as well as economic implications.”
DR. DAVID DUNSON 97G received the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Presidents’ Award at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Vancouver last summer. The award is presented annually to a young (under 40) member for outstanding contributions to the statistics profession. Dunson is a professor of statistical science at Duke.
MICHAEL HENSLE 99MPH was made unit chief of the FBI Biological Countermeasures Unit in Washington, D.C. Before his promotion, Hensle was one of only three supervisory special agents in the FBI Bioterrorism Prevention Program. He also is one of only six agents out of 30,000plus FBI employees who have a public health degree.
“Keeping people safe and diseasefree is the mission of public health and law enforcement, especially with regard to preventing bioterrorism attacks,” Hensle says. “I like to let students know that we aren’t the bad guys.”
Last fall, he met with Department of Epidemiology faculty and Student Outbreak and Response Team leaders about partnering with Rollins to bring this type of training to MPH students. “The idea is to integrate the topics early in their training to foster a positive relationship among public health, law enforcement, and academia,” he notes.
