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News May 18, 2010: Congratulations, Elizabeth Bass! Elizabeth won the second place Goldmann Student Paper Award of the Public Health Association of New York City (PHANYC) 2009 Annual Awards Ceremony for her paper, "Playgrounds for New York City: Evaluating the PlaNYC Proposal". May 6, 2010: Congratulations, Cristina Commesso! Cristina will present her practicum "Outcome Measures on Educational Attainment of Perinatally Infected HIV+ Adolescents, aged 17 & up." at the NIMH Annual International Research Conference on the Roles of Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS on June 16-18, 2010 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. April 27, 2010: Congratulations, Chris Shackles! Chris Shackles, current MPH student, did a presentation titled "The School Nurse Asthma Prevalence Survey Program: 2003-2010" at the Asthma Coalition of Long Island research meeting. This is part of his practicum. It was very well received. April 2, 2010: Congratulations, Jaymie Meliker and Chantel Sloan! Dr. Meliker and Chantel Sloan will be presenting on the topic of “Performance of Q-statistics for Investigating Cancer Clusters in Case-Control Residential Histories” at the AcademyHealth Meeting in Boston during the Geography of Cancer session organized by David Stinchcomb, NCI. April 2, 2010: Congratulations, Lauren Hale! Dr. Hale will be presenting on the following topics over the next several months: “I don´t want to wake if you are not here: Suboptimal Sleep among the Families of Mexican Migrants.” Co-authoring with Maria Estela Rivero Fuentes. Accepted for Oral Presentation at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America. Dallas, TX: April 15-17, 2010. “Does sleep quality mediate the association between neighborhood disorder and self-rated physical health?” Co-authoring with Terrence Hill, and Amy M. Burdette. Accepted for Oral Presentation at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America. Dallas, TX: April 15-17, 2010. “Preschooler bedtime routines in a disadvantaged population: A longitudinal analysis of behavioral, cognitive, and health outcomes.” Co-authoring with Lawrence M. Berger, Monique LeBourgeois, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. Accepted as an oral presentation to the SLEEP meetings. San Antonio, Texas, June 5-9, 2010. “Physical activity, sleep duration, and body weight in post-menopausal women: The Women’s Health Initiative Study.” Co-authoring with Stacy Sims, Mary Pettinger, C. Isasi, C. Thomson, and ML Stefanick. Accepted as an oral presentation to the SLEEP meetings. San Antonio, Texas, June 5-9, 2010. April 1, 2010: Congratulations, Norman Edelman, Karen Goldsteen, Ray Goldsteen, and students - Sam Yagudayev, Stephen Colon, and Erin Healy! They have podium presentations at both the AcademyHealth 2010 Annual Research Meeting in Boston this June and the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education Annual Meeting in New York City this April. The topic is the interest of New York State hospitals to increase their capacity to train residents. April 1, 2010: Congratulations, Evonne Kaplan-Liss! Dr. Kaplan-Liss will present at the New York Academy of Medicine in April and the Pediatric Academic Society in Seattle this May. Her topic at both meetings is "Media Deconstruction of Environmental Health Messages. April 1, 2010: Congratulations, Steven Jonas! Dr. Jonas, has been invited to present at the First World Congress on Exercise is Medicine being held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Baltimore, June 1-5, 2010. His talk will be part of a Symposium: An International View, to be held on June 2. In addition, Dr. Jonas has been selected by the Yale University Public Health Alumni Association as the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award for exceptional contributions to public health practice, research, and teaching and continued and sustained contributions to community and society. April 1, 2010: Congratulations, Lindsay Cammarata! Lindsay, current MPH student, won first place in the Ambulatory Anesthesia section of the poster presentations at the International Anesthesia Research Society annual meeting in March. Karen Goldsteen is Lindsay’s mentor for this project. March 31, 2010: Congratulations, Hongdao Meng! Dr. Meng’s abstract has been selected for podium presentation at the AcademyHealth 2010 Annual Research Meeting in Boston this June. The title of his presentation is "Impact of a Disease Management-Health Promotion Intervention on Total Health Care Expenditures" for the Medicare Spending Growth section. March 31, 2010: Congratulations, Evonne Kaplan-Liss! Dr. Kaplan-Liss mentored Sanhita Reddy, a Stony Brook University undergraduate who was selected for a Fulbright and will spend the year in Brazil studying public health communications, cross-culturally. Dr. Kaplan-Liss also mentored a local high school student, who won the Public Health Award and came in fourth overall at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair for her pandemic flu project. March 29, 2010: Congratulations, Melody Goodman! Dr. Goodman mentored Debby Yanes, a Stony Brook undergraduate and intern in the Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research (CPHHPR). Debby has been accepted to Stony Brook University’s School of Medicine. February 23, 2010: Congratulations, Melody Goodman! Dr. Goodman, GPPH faculty member, has been published in Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Her article entitled “Comparison of Small-Area Analysis Techniques for Estimating Prevalence by Race” is the result of work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For more information about the research, Please follow the link. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2010/mar/09_0026.htm February 22, 2010: Internship Oppurtunity! A new internship opportunity is available at Long Island Association for AIDS Care, Inc., a non-profit agency delivering comprehensive services to all Long Islanders infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and other infectectious diseases. Interns are expected to work 15/ 20 hours per week for 3 months. For more information please follow the link. http://longisland.craigslist.org/npo/1584616679.html February 11, 2010: Congratulations, Robbye Kinkade! Robbye, current MPH student, will present at the Storyboard Reception during the Annual Forum for Improving Children’s Healthcare and Childhood Obesity Congress: 10 Years and Growing, an event sponsored by the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality. The Forum will be held in Atlanta in March 2010. The title of Robbye's presentation is “Fit Kids for Life Part II: Sustaining Healthy Behavior: A Psycho-social -Behavioral Approach." Her faculty mentor is Dr. Karen Goldsteen, and she developed the presentation for her Practicum. February 4th, 2010: Congratulations, Jessica Braswell! Jessica, a current MPH student, will present her research at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, May 1-4, 2010, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The title of her research is “Infection in international adoptees" and her faculty mentor was Dr. Hongdao Meng. January 26, 2010: Congratulations, Kunchok Dorjee! Kunchok, current MPH student, will present at a poster session during the annual meeting of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) on March 25-27, 2010 in Washington, DC. The title of his presentation is “Integrated Hepatitis B Control Program for the Tibetan Population in India." Kunchok’s faculty mentor is Dr. Amy Hammock, and he developed the presentation for her course: Planning & Implementing Community Health Programs. January 26, 2010: Congratulations, Chintan Pandya! Chintan, current MPH student, will present at a poster session during the annual meeting of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) on March 25-27, 2010 in Washington, DC. The title of his presentation is “Predictors of length of stay in patients with arteriovenous malformation related gastrointestinal bleeding". Chintan’s faculty mentor is Dr. Melody Goodman. January 15, 2010: Congratulations, Jamie Lee Romeiser! On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, MPH alumnus, Jamie Lee Romeiser presented research at the APHA Annual meeting in Philadelphia. The session highlighted some of the more innovative student work submitted to the student assembly and represents a wide array of topics in public health. Topics included diabetes, malaria, disaster preparedness and recovery, smoking, knee and farm worker injury, food accessibility disparities, international sanitation issues, and culturally relevant cancer education. Jamie’s faculty mentor is Dr. Melody Goodman. Research topic: “Analysis of supermarket availability in the minority communities of Suffolk County, NY” For more information about the research, Please follow the link. http://apha.confex.com/apha/137am/webprogram/Paper206777.html January 15, 2010: Congratulations, Owen Pyke! On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, MPH alumnus, Owen Pyke presented research at the APHA Annual meeting in Philadelphia. The session highlighted some of the more innovative student work submitted to the student assembly and represents a wide array of topics in public health. Topics included diabetes, malaria, disaster preparedness and recovery, smoking, knee and farm worker injury, food accessibility disparities, international sanitation issues, and culturally relevant cancer education. Jamie’s faculty mentor is Dr. Melody Goodman Research topic: “Health literacy disparities among community health center patients in Suffolk County” For more information about his research, Please follow the link. http://apha.confex.com/apha/137am/webprogram/Paper201749.html January 5, 2009: Britney Duncan, a recent MPH alum, is currently employed as a Health Education Specialist at the University of South Alabama under the Center for Healthy Communities – Center for Excellence. She has a variety of responsibilities that involve direct work with the community and various faculty and staff within the University. As the Health Education Specialist, Britney is responsible for recruiting, coordinating and providing education to Community Health Advocates. These individuals are community members who are passionate enough about health issues to devote their time to develop community-friendly seminars, health fairs, and other health promotion initiatives. They also are heavily involved in faith-based organizations, community health agencies and youth groups, which provide an inlet for vital health information. At the present, Britney is developing a curriculum for Community Health Advocates (CHA) to ensure consistency of information being disseminated and to develop a system of ongoing learning. This curriculum will be introduced as online learning modules and will address the major health disparities affecting African-Americans that have been identified in Healthy People 2010. The hope is to achieve better health outcomes and leave in place knowledgeable CHAs that will foster sustainability of these goals. In addition, Britney is a certified Red Cross Instructor Trainer, which allows her to provide important safety sessions and certifications to the general population, and give community members the confidence they need to deal with emergency issues in their homes and neighborhoods. For more information Center for Healthy Communities - Center for Excellence visit: http://www.southalabama.edu/healthycommunities/. November 22, 2009: Congratulations to Amishi Mody, Deevya Narayanan, and Breena Taira for successfully completing the Certified Public Health exam. All three graduated from the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University and are now Certified Public Health Professionals. Public health professionals daily face the challenges of confronting complex health issues, such as controlling infectious diseases, reducing environmental hazards, public health preparedness and substance abuse. With all of these serious challenges, public health professionals need to be dedicated to staying at the forefront of their field by understanding the interaction between the different specialized areas of public health, learning new strategies to cope with disasters, and constantly working to stay two steps ahead of any threat in order to be effective with the proactive and preventative approach that characterizes the public health field. Becoming a Certified Public Health Professional Has Multiple Benefits: · Sets a standard of knowledge and skills in public health · Encourages life-long learning · Adds credibility to public health profession · Increasing public health awareness · Fosters environment of a professional community The exam is rooted in the five basic core competencies of public health to reflect the nature of the field and the way one area of knowledge blends into another. The certification exam is administered to graduates of CEPH-accredited schools and programs of public health. Information modified from www.publichealthexam.org. September 10, 2009: Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Hale for her contribution to the paper “Assessing Biological Pathways by Which Neighborhoods Contribute to Health Disparities.” This paper has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Additionally, Dr. Hale was interviewed for an article at CNN.com about her research in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics on children's bedtimes and bedtime routines August 18, 2009: Jonathan Ragone is a native Long Islander. He has been at Stony Brook University since the Fall of 1998 when he entered as a freshman. Jonathan earned both a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and a Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies; with a concentration in Human Resources and Education. Over the last eight years, he has worked for the Division of Campus Residences. Some of his experiences include student staff recruitment/selection, leadership development/training, curriculum development, event planning, advising, and teaching. Most recently he served as Quad Director of H-Quad which is the Undergraduate College of Leadership and Service. Jonathan is passionate about community service, leadership, and student development. He is excited to be part of the GPPH Team! Welcome, Jonathan! August 8, 2009: The Graduate Program in Public Health is very pleased to announce that Amy Hammock will be joining the faculty and serving the Community Health concentration. Dr. Hammock received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has expertise in health education, program evaluation, community-based participatory research, and qualitative methods. Her current areas of research include intimate partner violence prevention and intervention, adolescent health, and the use of the arts in promoting community health. In her teaching, Dr. Hammock encourages critical thought and learning through a variety of participatory approaches, such as small group discussions, formal debates, group projects, and interactive lectures. While in Michigan, Dr. Hammock was the Evaluation Coordinator of The Shanti Project, a community-based intimate partner violence prevention program in a local immigrant community. During this time, she also served as a program evaluator for the health education division of The Corner Health Center, a community health center for adolescents. Prior to her doctoral work, as a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico, Dr. Hammock conducted program evaluations of two community centers offering services to battered women and their children. She also worked as an advocate in two battered women's shelters in Massachusetts. Welcome, Amy! June 8, 2009: Breena R. Taira, MD, MPH, recent graduate of the GPH and fellow in Emergency Medicine, was invited by the World Health Organization to participate in the Third meeting of the Global Initiative of Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia June 5-6, 2009. GIEESC is a WHO initiative begun in 2005 to improve collaborations among organizations, agencies and institutions involved in reducing death and disability from road traffic accidents, trauma, burns, falls, pregnancy related complications, domestic violence, disasters and other emergency surgical conditions. GIEESC aims to strengthen capacity to deliver effective emergency surgical care at the first referral level facility, thereby contributing towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Dr. Taira reported to the members of GIEESC on the results of a study of surgical capacity and infrastructure in the conflict-affected areas of Sri Lanka. April 12, 2009: Congratulations to Margaret (Peg) Davis, MPH student and Director of the Witness Project of Long Island, a faith-based breast cancer awareness program for African American communities offered in collaboration with the Stony Brook University Cancer Center and the town of Babylon and other Suffolk County communities. Peg was honored at the annual New York Conference Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church, for her many years of leadership and service to that organization. Margaret (Peg) V. Davis is the immediate past 1st Vice President of the New York Conference Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, having served eight years under the dynamic leadership of President Margaret N. Bell. In that capacity, she also served as the Conference 's first Commissioner of Christian Social Action. Sister Peg has also served as 2nd Vice President in the administration of Sister Carolyn Scavella, as PME Director for the Eastern Long Island Area when Sister Bell was Area Chairperson, and was appointed YPD Director for the Long Island Area by Sister Shermanita Dixon. Mrs. Davis was elected by the Society to represent the NY Conference WMS as Delegate #1 to both the 15th (2003) & 16th (2007) Quadrennial Conventions of our Connectional (International) Women's Missionary Society. She is a member of the 1st District's Commission on Christian Social Action, working with Constitution & Bylaws. She enjoys her work in this Wonderful Ministry of Service that is the WMS! As a minister's wife, she is a member of the AME Spouses, Widows, and Widowers Alliance of New York, was President of that Alliance from 1984-1986, and is currently the oraganization's Historiographer. Sister peg retired from the AMerican Diabetes Association (ADA) after 25 1/2 years of employment that included Director of the Association's LI Chapter, and Regional Program Manager for the Northeast Area. At her retirement in May 2003, she was the Sneior Area Director of Programs and Outreach. She developed the prototype for "Diabetes Sunday", now a national ADA program for fatih based diabetes edcuation, and organized the first "Diabetes Expo" for the Northeast Area. Ms. Davis joined the staff at the Stony Brook University Cancer Center in October 2003 and is currently the Director for the Witness Project of Long Island, a faith-based hbreast cancer awareness program fot African AMerican communities offered in collaboration with the Town of Babylon and other Suffolk County communities. Her volunteer work includes participation in the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, (PTA), first as President of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Wyandanch. Mrs. Davis was appointed Distrcit Director for Suffolk County PTA in 1983, the first African American to hold this position, and was later appointed to the NY State Executive Board as Health Chair. Elected 7th and then 3rd Vice President of the New York State PTA, she has received the NY State Distinguished Service Award, and Honorary Life Memberships in both State and National PTA organizations. In recognition of her leadership and commitment to children and education, the Suffolk Region PTA Annually awards the "Peg Davis Leadership Award" at its "Presidents and Principals Dinner." Most recently, Sister Peg has become a founding member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Suffolk Chapter, where she chairs the CHapter's Health Committee. An ongoing pursuit for Sister Davis while raising her family and establishing her career was the completion of her baccalaureate studies. At the age of 61, she received, with Senior Honors, her BS degree in Organizationl Management from St. Joseph's College's School of Adult and Professional Education. She is now a student in Stony Brook University's Graduate Program in Public Health seeking an MPH. Sister Peg and her husband, the Reverend Leonard M. Daivs, Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Babylon, will celebrate 43 years of marriage on May 7th; they reside in Coram, Long Island. Sister Peg has worked as Advisor to the missionary societies at the churches where Pastor Davis has served. They have three adult children, a son - Leonard Jr., (Manassas, VA), two daughters - Michelle Davis Johnston (Fort Worth, TX) and Marlisha Davis Johnson (Martinsburg, WVA), and are additionally blessed with seven grandchildren. She loves the Lord, and gives Him all the glory and honor for the many blessings she has received. March 6th, 2009: "What if I told you I could write a prescription for medicine that would do all of the following: lower blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight; improve cholesterol, sleep, bone and heart health; and decrease the risk for cancer? Imagine one prescription that could do all of these things and more. Well, that prescription exists and there is only one catch: you'll need 30 minutes a day to take it. Yes, that's right, the 'medicine' is exercise." The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has launched a new national campaign called "Exercise is Medicine" and Dr. Steven Jonas, NYAM Fellow, with Dr. Edward M. Phillips, has written the official textbook in support of this public health program. Exercise is Medicine calls on all physicians, regardless of specialty, and other healthcare providers to deliver a physical activity message and prescription to every patient. With this book, practitioners will learn how to motivate and instruct patients on the importance of exercise and how to design practical exercise programs for patients of all ages and fitness levels, as well as those with special conditions such as pregnancy, obesity, and cancer. Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, a NYAM Fellow since 1992, is Professor of Preventive Medicine, at the School of Medicine of Stony Brook University. Dr. Jonas is a widely respected authority on the importance of exercise and sports and their connection to health policy and public health. Dr. Jonas is also a prolific and accomplished writer, having authored 12 books on his own, co-authored 17 books, published more than 135 professional articles, book chapters, and book reviews, and presented over 100 papers at conferences and seminars across the country. February 27th, 2009:Congratulations to Jaymie Meliker, our GPPH faculty member whose article entitled "Breast and Prostate Cancer Survival in Michigan: Can Geographic Analyses Assist in Understanding Racial Disparities?" will appear in the May 15 issue of CANCER. The journal has also selected this article as newsworthy and will be promoting it to the media in the coming weeks. February 17th, 2009: Congratulations to Ellen Sano, MPH student and physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, whose abstract entitled "National Trends in Emergency Department Waiting Times for Patients with Sepsis from 1997 to 2006" was accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine in May of this year. Ellen's research was developed during her course with Dr. Meng - Health Services Research Applications - this fall. February 17th, 2009: Congratulations to MPH student, Erin Healy, who is an author with her colleagues from Pulmonary Medicine of "Use of the All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Group (APR-DRG) Risk of Mortality Score as a Severity-Adjustor in the ICU." The paper was recently published in Clinical Medicine: Circulatory, Respiratory, and Pulmonary Medicine. February 9th, 2009: Congratulations to Breena Taira, MPH student and physician in Emergency Medicine, whose article entitled "Burden of surgical disease: Does the literature reflect the scope of the international crisis?" has been accepted for publication in the World Journal of Surgery. February 6th, 2009: The Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research in collaboration with Literacy Suffolk, Inc. has received a National Institutes of Health Partners in Research grant entitled Community Alliance for Research Empowering Social Change (CARES). CARES will consist of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, community based organizations and community members working together to improve minority health outcomes through evidence based public health. October 15th, 2008:Stony Brook University's Graduate Program in Public Health received accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). Congratulations to all Faculty, Students, Alumni, Staff, and Affiliates of GPPH! June 16th, 2008:Congratulations Carolyn Gallagher on the acceptance for publication of the manuscript " Urinary Cadmium and Osteoporosis in U.S. Women Age 50 and Older, NHANES 1988-1994 and 1999-2004" in Environmental Health Perspectives. June 4th, 2008: GPPH congratulates MPH student Erin Healy, as she presents at The Public Health Association of New York City's (PHANYC) 3rd Annual Student Conference! June 4th, 2008: You are invited to hear your peers showcase their research in public health and participate in career/professional development at the Public Health Association of New York City (PHANYC) Third Annual Student Conference. WHEN: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 TIME: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm WHERE: CUNY Graduate Center 5th Avenue @ 34th Street Rooms 9206/9207 New York, NY FEE: Free of Charge, with refreshments TO RSVP: Contact info@phanyc.org Hearing your peers present their research on public health at PHANYC's third Student Conference is a great opportunity to gain practical experience on presentation skill development, as well as an excellent chance to learn about the latest public health research in New York City's public health programs. Congratulations to Erin Healy for presenting her research project from Advanced Biostatistics. April 14th, 2008: The recently approved NYS state budget will include funds for a "Children's Environmental Health Program." One Center for Children's Environmental Health will be established at Stony Brook within the Graduate Program in Public Health. Evonne Kaplan-Liss will be the Director. We anticipate that the Center's clinical and research activities will be conducted in collaboration with the Departments of Preventive Medicine, Pediatrics, OB-GYN and others. CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Kaplan-Liss for her hard work on behalf of this project and our program! March 14th, 2008: The GPPH is holding its first annual Practicum fair! Students: Come meet potential practicum agency representatives at 2:00pm-4:00pm in the Preventive Medicine Conference Room! March 13th, 2008: The Brookhaven Town's 22nd Annual Women's Recognition Awards Ceremony recognized Nanci Rice with the distinction "For Outstanding Service to the Community in Education." Dr. Rice also received certificates from the House of Representatives, New York State Assembly, her Congressional district, as well as from the State of New York Legislative Resolution "COMMENDING Dr. Nanci Rice upon the occasion of being honored by the Town of Brookhaven Office of Women's Services on March 13, 2008 in conjunction with Women's History Month in the State of New York." Congratulations Dr. Rice! March 3rd and 4th, 2008:Site visit from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH): The Graduate Program in Public Health hosted a CEPH site visit on March 3rd and 4th as the last step towards the accreditation process. After a day and a half of intense scrutiny, we are please to report that our hard work has paid off! The site visitors had a very optimistic and encouraging outlook for the Program, and while the Council will not give its final word until October, it is likely that the outcome will be a positive one! Everyone's support made this decision possible, and the GPPH sincerely thanks you for your many contributions. Students, Alumni, Core and Affiliated Faculty, Staff, Community Members, and University Officials; without you all we would not have had such a successful visit! February 21st and 22nd, 2008: The GPPH hosted a site visit for the evaluation of the proposed PhD program in Population Health and Clinical Science Research. Evaluators had the following to say about the proposed program: "The faculty is strong and committed. They are excited and energetic. Many of the required courses are already in place. There is an opportunity for strong collaboration with clinical investigators within clinical departments at medical center and public health officials both in Suffolk County and New York City. The new PhD program comes at a time when translational research is emphasized nationally. The students we met reported being inspired by their teachers in the MPH program, many of whom are the same faculty who will teach in the doctoral program. This omens well for the new PhD program." February 1st, 2008: Submission of the GPPH Self-Study Document to the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH): The GPPH submitted the final copy of the Self-Study document to CEPH for evaluation. (For a copy of this document, click here) The Program is now preparing for the CEPH site visit on March 3rd and 4th, 2008. May 9th, 2007: Advanced Biostatistics Poster Session, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research: Check out the Inaugural Volume of the Graduate Program in Public Health's JOURNAL OF ADVANCED BIOSTATISTICS, which was presented to attendees of the Advanced Biostatistics Poster Session on May 9, 2007, sponsored by The Office of the Vice President for Research. Congratulations to the twelve MPH students who participated in the poster session, and the 6 whose peer-reviewed articles were accepted for publication in the journal. April 27th, 2007:The Stony Brook School of Medicine is proud to announce the Aesculapius Award winners for 2007: Dr. Mary F. Kritzer, Dr. Thomas O'Riordan and Dr. Thomas A. Wilson. The Aesculapius Award, initiated in 1991, is presented by the Dean of the School of Medicine to emphasize the importance of excellence in education to the success of our School, and to recognize the most outstanding teachers throughout the Stony Brook system. The award carries a $1000 prize. Recipients are honored with their names inscribed on a plaque in the Office of the Dean. The Graduate Program in Public Health Faculty and Staff extend their sincere congratulations to Dr. O'Riordan, an affiliated faculty member in the Program. January 22nd, 2007: Melody S. Goodman, PhD, 28, Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, has received a Martin Luther King Jr. "Drum Major" Leadership Award from the Hollywood Baptist Cathedral of Amityville, NY. Inaugural Symposium, Graduate Program in Public Health, Fall 2004 Bishop Andy C. Lewter, D. Min, of the Hollywood Baptist Cathedral, said the recipients were chosen for "their own insistence on excellence, unselfish giving of themselves and contributions that they make to improve the quality of life" in African American communities, keeping "alive the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King." Dr. Goodman received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics in June 2006 from Harvard University's Department of Biostatistics, graduating as the youngest African American woman to date to receive this degree. She attended Stony Brook University as an undergraduate, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Economics summa cum laude in 1999. During her undergraduate career, she was a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)/ NIH Fellow, a recipient of the Provost Award for Academic Excellence, and was inducted into Stony Brook's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to her GPPH faculty responsibilities teaching Biostatistics, Dr. Goodman serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research, which is committed to improving the health and well being of the residents of Long Island through public health policy analysis and rigorous public health research on critical public health issues. The Center's objectives include conducting community health research for the improvement of community health and to reduce health disparities on Long Island. "This award acknowledges Dr. Goodman's commitment to superior research for minority communities of Long Island," says Dr. Raymond L. Goldsteen, Director of the Graduate Program in Public Health. "I foresee that her efforts to build community coalitions and conduct community based research will help to eliminate health disparities over the next decades." "Without the contributions of Dr. King and the many warriors of the civil rights movement, a young girl from South Jamaica, Queens would not have had the opportunity to attend Harvard University and obtain a doctoral degree in a field that most people have never heard of" replies Dr. Goodman. "It is rare for someone from my community to attend a school like Harvard. This is why it is so important for me to give back to my community, to use the skills I have acquired to improve our health." The Graduate Program in Public Health is pleased to announce that Samia Omar, a SBU Leakey Fellow, and member of the GPPH's Fall 2006 entering class, has received a scholarship to attend the Young Leaders Summit on Global Health: Innovative Solutions to Healthcare in Low Resource Settings, which will be held at the Kimmel Center, New York University on October 29, 2006. Ms. Omar, a native of Mombasa, Kenya, received her B.A. in Health Studies and Psychology from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. STONY BROOK GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSOR RECEIVES NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD The James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award recognizes "new investigators", which is defined as someone who is within three years of completing a terminal degree. The award is intended to recognize and further the careers of future leaders in aging research. The criteria for selection include the importance of the topic, the rigor of the design, the quality of writing, and the potential benefit to the field. Hongdao Meng received the award for his research in the cost-effectiveness of community-based disease management/health promotion interventions among older adults with chronic conditions. Meng's research project and paper, titled "Effectiveness and Cost of a Health Promotion Nurse Intervention among Older Adults with Heart Conditions: The Role of Rural and Urban Residence," found significant evidence that a community-based disease management/health promotion nurse intervention led to better physical functioning and has the potential to reduce total health care expenditures among high risk Medicare beneficiaries with heart conditions. He also studies innovative financing mechanism for consumer-directed home care to individuals with long-term care needs. This research project is funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS. He will be accepting this award at the award ceremony during the upcoming 134th APHA Annual Meeting in Boston. The Gerontological Health Section/APHA has more than 600 members and the American Public Health Association has more than 50,000 members. Irene Hwang, (student, MD/MPH program) was chosen to be a part of the inaugural Europe Health Care Systems Study Tour hosted by the American Medical Student Association. Irene traveled throughout Europe in order to examine the various types of health care systems implemented in countries such as England, Ireland and Germany. The purpose of the tour was to expand awareness of the range of ways in which health care systems can be structured.
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