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Magazine returnsRead the 2013 edition here:mailman.columbia.edu/CPHmagazine

NEW FACES: DuBois BowmanNamed Chair of BiostatisticsPage 3

Q&A withUrsula Staudinger A conversationwith the directorof the newColumbia AgingCenter aboutlonger lives andthe implicationsfor individualsand society. Pluslife in the BigApple.Page 2

Urban Health New initiativetakes on a

global issue.Page 8

ALSO IN THIS EDITION

4 New Faculty, Staff, & Researchers

5 Kudos: Melissa BeggHonored for Teaching Excellence

7 Forward Thinking: Deans Initiativon Obesity Prevention

9 Research Spotlight

11 Around Campus

12 Bookshelf & In the News

13 Events & Resources

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Ursula StaudingerUrsula Staudinger, a reknowned scholar and academic leaderin the eld of lifespan and aging research, joined the MalimanSchool in July. She is the director of the Robert N. Butler AgingCenter at Columbia University and the Robert N. Butler Professorof Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School. Momentum caught up with Dr. Staudinger shortly after she returned fromthe annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of Americain New Orleans, and hours before she jetted off to Singapore,where she gave the keynote address at the TSAO Foundations20th Anniversary Gala celebrating the future of aging. Ourconversation ranged from her advice on successful aging tothoughts on life in the Big Apple.

How important is chronological age? Chronologicalage loses its informational value around age 20 to 25.After that, it tells you less and less about the person.After age 50 or 60, it tells you almost nothing. Some-one at age 70 might have a level of cognitive function

equivalent to the average level of a 30-year-old. But youcan also have a 40-year-old who operates at the averagelevel of a 70-year-old. These differences can be very big.

Is age-related cognitive decline inevitable? We know from empirical work that we can slow cogni-tive decline and shift the curve so people start from ahigher level. Both of these things are having a tremen-dous effect on everyday life. A 70-year-old in 2013 hasabout a one standard deviation higher level of cogni-tive functioning than a 70-year-old 15 or 20 years back.But it doesnt come automatically. We need to preserve

our physical health, and we need an environment thatis exciting and enriching.How about wisdom? Can we count on getting

wiser with age? It is not enough to grow older tobecome wiser. Sad but true. In order for wisdom toemerge, many things need to come together. We needexposure to many difcult life situations. We need amentor to help us to make sense of these things and

come up with good solutions. And we need to be opento new experiences so that we continue to challengeour own insights. Usually when we grow older we see adecline in openness to new experiences. But this isnt setin stone. We showed in one study that if incentives changeand if we prepare older people for the new environment,they love it and want more of it. It has to do with how weengineer our society as much as to do with aging.

Longer lifespans present new challenges likeincreased rates of chronic disease. But as youand Dean Fried point out, they also present real

opportunities. Please explain. When we speak aboutdemographic change, we have to think about twoaspects. Along with gains in life expectancy we areseeing declines in fertility rates. This is good becausethis planet has nite resources. And if there are fewerof us, we can pay more attention to everyone and notleave behind 10 or 20 percent of every generationas is currently the case. These demographic changes

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We need to preserve our physical health, and weneed an environment thatis exciting and enriching.

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present a chance for a more equal and just society.Another interesting thing we learn from demogra-

phers is that there will be about the same number ofpeople in each age bracketyoung, middle-aged, andold. This is a very different kind of society than we havenow. To prepare for it, we need increased participationin the labor force by those above age 55, and by wom-en, and migrant populations. To do this, we also needto educate people of all ethnic backgrounds, genders,and age groups. If we manage to take advantage ofthese productive resources, we will be ne. We canmaintain our welfare system and our living standard.

How will the Columbia Aging Center help thiscome about? The Aging Lab [one of two branches ofthe Columbia Aging Center along with the InternationalLongevity Center USA] will focus on understandingthe systemic quality of aging. In other words, howhuman biology interacts with context and personalattitudes and decisions. We need to know much moreso we can design useful interventions to optimize agingtrajectories. It is increasingly evident that there is noone-size-ts-all approach.

You recently relocated from Germany. How doyou like life in New York? [My husband and I] like ithere very much. One geographical feature that is notwidely associated with New York City is that it is a cityon the ocean. In 45 minutes, you are on Jones Beachwalking on a wide sand beach, no houses in sight. And50 minutes to the north, you have these beautiful roll-ing hills and the woods where you can be by yourself.That is something you dont have in Germany, which ismore densely populated.

I rst visited New York in the 1970s. What is admi-rable about the city is just how far it has come. It is cul-turally rich, environmentally friendly, and relatively freeof crime. Apart from the occasional MTA headache,everyday life is very easy. We love the movies. There isa very rich documentary movie scene in New York. Wego to the opera. Its endless. Too many things to do!

For the full interview with Dr. Staudinger, including heradvice on healthy aging, go to: http://bit.ly/1iA2Ya6 .

DuBois Bowman NamedChair of Biostatistics

Dr. Bowman joins the MailmanSchool in January.

DuBois Bowman is currently director of the Center for BiomedicalImaging Statistics at the Rollins School of Public Health at EmoryUniversity, a center which he founded, and tenured professor inthe Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. He is also onfaculty in the Neuroscience Program in the Graduate Division ofBiological and Biomedical Sciences at Emory.

A distinguished scholar who specializes in the developmentand applications of statistical methods for complex neuroimagingdata, Dr. Bowman leads an active research program focusing onmental health and neurological disorders and characterizing thepatterns of neurological disruption based on complex analyses ofneuroimaging data.

Dr. Bowman will succeed Roger Vaughan , vice dean for Aca-demic Advancement, who has served as interim chair since 2011.

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New Faculty and Researchers Tanya Ellman

Associate Research ScientistICAP

Padmaja Patnaik Associate Research ScientistICAP

Lynn Petukhova Associate Research ScientistEpidemiology

Ursula M. Staudinger Robert N. Butler Professorof Sociomedical Sciences,

Director Robert N. ButlerColumbia Aging Center

Paul W. Thurman LecturerHealth Policy & Management

Promotions: Facultyand Researchers

Simon J. Anthony Associate Research Scientist

Center for Infection and Immunity Gang Nathan Dong

Assistant ProfessorHealth Policy & Management

Wafaa M. El-Sadr University ProfessorICAP

Julie C. Franks Associate Research Scientist

ICAP Prakash Gorroochurn

Associate ProfessorBiostatistics

Shing M. Lee Assistant ProfessorBiostatistics

Yael Hirsch-Moverman Associate Research ScientistICAP

Martina Pavlicova Associate ProfessorBiostatistics

Matthew S. Perzanowski Associate ProfessorEnvironmental Health Sciences

Mary Beth Terry

ProfessorEpidemiology

Pamela Valera Assistant ProfessorSociomedical Sciences

Yuanjia Wang Associate ProfessorBiostatistics

Brent L. Williams

Assistant ProfessorCenter for Infection and Immunity

Lawrence H. Yang Associate ProfessorEpidemiology

New Staff Arianne Andrusco

Director, Alumni Affairs andAnnual Fund

Heather Krasna Director of Career Services

Eric Ratner Director of StudentAcademic Affairs

For more new staff, go online: http://bit.ly/19hokiR

N E W FA C U LT Y, S TA F F, R E S E A R C H E R S , A N D P R O M O T I O N S

Adrianne Andrusco

Heather Krasna

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Melissa Begg Honoredfor Teaching Excellence

Vice Dean for Education Melissa Begg put anotherfeather in her cap as she accepted the 2013 Associationof Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)/Pzer Award for Teaching Excellence at the Associationsannual meeting in Boston on November 3.

Melissa Begg couldnt be more deserving of thisextraordinary national award, said Dean Linda P.Fried . It is a testament not only to Dr. Beggs trackrecord of both outstanding teaching and mentoring,but to her crucial leadership role in implementing ournew MPH curriculum, which debuted last year as therst of its kind in the nation, and in leading the Schoolsacademic programs.

Said Dr. Begg, I am extraordinarily grateful andso very humbled to receive this award. There is norole more important or more sustaining to me in myprofessional life than my role as a teacher. I am deeplythankful to the selection committee, Roger Vaughan for nominating me, and my amazing Columbia

colleagues and students for their support.The ASPPH/Pzer award is the second major teaching

honor for the School this year. In April, Roger Vaughan,vice dean for Academic Advancement and interim chairof Biostatistics, won this years Outstanding TeachingAward from the American Statistical Society.

Taken together, these awards are a validation of ourSchools commitment to equipping students to addressthe urgent public health needs of the 21st Century,said Dean Fried. Teaching excellence is a cornerstoneof our Schools mission, and we have an outstandingcurriculum taught by an outstanding faculty.

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Calderone Awards goto Eight Junior Scientists

The Schools 2013-14 CalderoneAwards for Junior Investigatorsin support of research projectsof exceptional merit include:

Helena Duch , assistant professorof Population and Family Health

PROJECT: The Role of MaternalAcculturation in the Development of EarlyChildhood Obesity in Latino Children

Jeff Goldsmith , assistant professorof Biostatistics

PROJECT: Functional Data Methods forContinuous Accelerometer Observations

Sara Lopez-Pintado , assistantprofessor of Biostatistics

PROJECT: Ordering MultivariateFunctional Data and DevelopingRelated Robust Statistical Methods

Gina Lovasi , assistant professorof Epidemiology

PROJECT: Neighborhood CommercialResources and Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Muhammad Faruque Parvez ,associate research scientist inEnvironmental Health Sciences

PROJECT: Exposure to Air Pollution fromBiomass Combustion and PreclinicalBiomarkers Among Non-Smoking Womenin Bangladesh

Arindam RoyChoudhury , assistantprofessor of Biostatistics

PROJECT: Analyzing Feed-Forward LoopsStructure between Physical Activity, BodyComposition, and Physical Performance

Eric Schrimshaw , assistant professorof Sociomedical Sciences

PROJECT: Comparisons of SexualProle Content of MSM Who UseSmartphone Apps or Internet Websitesfor Sexual Partnering

Hui-Chen Wu , associate research scientistin Environmental Health Sciences

PROJECT: MicroRNAs as Biomarkerfor Cirrhosis Among Patients withHepatitus C Virus Infection

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More awards Ana Abraido-Lanza , associate

professor of SociomedicalSciences, has been named aUniversity Provost LeadershipFellow. The Fellows Program aimsto develop leadership skills forsome of Columbias outstandingtenured faculty.

Jocelyn Basnett , an Executive MPHstudent, was elected a Fellow of theNew York Academy of Medicine.

Magdalena Cerd , assistant pro-fessor of Epidemiology, receivedfunding from the Provosts GrantProgram for Junior Faculty WhoContribute to the Diversity Goalsof the University.

Wendy Chavkin , special lecturerin Population and Family Health,and Mary Bassett , associateprofessor of Epidemiology, werehonored by the Public Health As-sociation of New York for out-

standing contributions to improv-ing the health of New Yorkers.

Alwyn Cohall , professor of So-ciomedical Sciences and directorof the Harlem Health PromotionCenter, received an award on be-half of the Center from New YorkCity Health Commissioner Thom-as Farley for exceptional work inHIV/AIDS in New York City.

Wafaa El-Sadr , University Profes-sor of Epidemiology and direc-tor of ICAP, was appointed bySecretary of Health and HumanServices Kathleen Sebelius to theFogarty International Center, theinternational arm of the NationalInstitutes of Health.

A paper co-authored by DeanLinda P. Fried with HowardFrumkin, dean of the Universityof Washington, titled Aging,Climate Change, and LegacyThinking was recognized as the2013 American Journal of PublicHealth Paper of the Year.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim , associ-ate professor of Epidemiology,received South Africas Order ofMapungubwe bronze award forher outstanding work in the eldof HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis re-search and health policy develop-

ment. The Order of Mapungubwe,the countrys highest honor, waspresented by President J.G. Zumaof South Africa.

W. Ian Lipkin, John Snow Profes-sor of Epidemiology and direc-tor of the Center for Infectionand Immunity, was appointed tothe advisory committee to thedirector of the National Insti-

tutes of Health. Dr. Lipkin alsoreceived the Drexel MedicinePrize in Translational Medicineand the Rush Medical CollegeDistinguished Alumni Award. OnNovember 8, Dr. Lipkin deliveredthe Oxford University CharlesSimonyi Lecture.

Silvia Martins , associate profes-sor of Epidemiology, was award-ed a Columbia Presidents GlobalInnovation Fund Research Award.

Terry McGovern , professor ofPopulation and Family Health,was honored by the 20/20 Lead-ing Womens Society with the2013 Pandora Singleton Allyaward for her 20+ years of workin HIV/AIDS.

Laura Messing , a masters stu-dent in Health Policy and Man-agement, is one of only threerecipients of the University-wideLemann Interschool GraduateFellowship competition.

John Rowe , professor of HealthPolicy and Management, wasgiven the University of New Eng-land 2013-14 Humanism in AgingLeadership Award.

John Santelli , chair and Heilb-runn Professor of the HeilbrunnDepartment of Population andFamily Health, received the 2013David P. Rall Award for Advocacyin Public Health from the Ameri-can Public Health Association.

Jeffrey Shaman , assistant pro-fessor of Environmental HealthSciences, received the 2013Award for Outstanding ResearchArticle in Biosurveillance from theInternational Society for DiseaseSurveillance in the category of

Scientic Achievement for hispaper, Forecasting SeasonalOutbreaks of Inuenza.

Y. Claire Wang , assistant profes-sor of Health Policy and Manage-ment, was elected a Fellow of theNew York Academy of Medicine.

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GRAPH Chartsa Way Forward

Mailman initiativeseeks intersectionof health preventionand ROI for privatesector, foundations,government.

In July, the Mailman School launchedGRAPH, Global Research and Analytics forPopulation Health. Together with public andprivate partners, GRAPH leverages big data,faculty expertise, and innovative analyticapproaches to address key questions ofemerging public health concern, with theaim of informing, challenging, and ultimatelychanging public actions on health.

To analyze the payback on an array ofpopulation-based and prevention programs,the GRAPH team led by Sandro Galea ,Michael Sparer , and Roger Vaughan intendsto tap in to the expertise of the Schoolsfaculty to formulate new ways of quantifyingthe effectiveness of particular programs, toidentify emerging priorities in public health,and to evaluate public health approachesthat maximize return on investment.

Over the summer, the team met withFortune 500 executives, heads of state

agencies, and philanthropic organizations todiscuss the questions for which those sectorsmost urgently seek answers.

Dr. Galea is chair and Gelman Professorof Epidemiology; Dr. Sparer is chair ofHealth Policy and Management; Dr. Vaughanis vice dean for Academic Advancement.

Deans InitiativeSets Sights onObesity

On the agenda:mapping out theobstacles and theopportunities for moreeffective prevention.

As BMIs continue their upward trajectory,a group of Mailman School faculty is hard atwork seeking answers. At regular meetings

co-led by Y. Claire Wang , assistant professorof Health Policy and Management, and Andrew Rundle , associate professor ofEpidemiology, they pore through scholarlyliterature to identify gaps in whats knownabout the epidemic. The goal is to produceseveral jointly-authored position papers and avision for more effective directions.

One of the most important items on ourto-do list is making the case for the primacyof prevention in obesity, acknowledging thatthe data on treatment is more solid and read-ily available than the data on prevention,says Dr. Rundle. Adds Dr. Wang, A relatedquestion is what is the best metric to demon-

strate the value of prevention. While any number of public health

schools is grappling with obesity, the

Mailman initiative is unique in puttinga special emphasis on prevention andengaging with faculty from all corners of the

School. Along with Drs. Rundle and Wang,the group is made up of Jeffrey Goldsmith ,assistant professor in Biostatistics; RachelShelton , assistant professor in SociomedicalSciences; and Shakira Suglia , assistantprofessor in Epidemiology. All are engagedin obesity issues, from the effectivenessof policies and interventions to the role ofsocial networks and the built environment onphysical activity.

It is our responsibility to use innovativescientic thinking to chart a way forward toprevent this huge driver of chronic diseases,morbidity, and disability, Dean Fried toldthe group at its kick-off meeting last spring.

Obesity Prevention Initiative website:http://bit.ly/18Fr1AE

Injury CenterLaunchesNew JournalGuohua Li , professor of Epidemiologyand Anesthesiology and director ofthe Center for Injury Epidemiology, iseditor-in-chief of a new, open-access

journal called Injury Epidemiology ,which is published by Springer inpartnership with Columbia University.The mission of the journal is to advancethe science and practice of injuryprevention and control through timelypublication and dissemination of peer-reviewed research. Barbara Barlow ,special lecturer of Epidemiology anddirector of the Injury Free Coalition for

Kids, is honorary editor, and CharlesDiMaggio , associate professor ofEpidemiology, is associate editor. Formore information, visit the journalswebsite: http://www.injepijournal.com
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MailmanGala ToastsCitys PublicHealth WinsThe Mailman School gala on October 29celebrated public health leadership of alocal sort. The evenings honoree was theCity of New York, whose commitmentto provide all its citizens with a healthyenvironment is unmatched anywhere,Dean Linda P. Fried said, pointing to theprogress made under the leadershipof Michael Bloomberg from bike lanesto bans on smoking and trans fats toexpanded HIV testing and treatment.

Accepting the award was New YorkCity Health Commissioner Thomas Farley ,who serves on the Schools Board of

Overseers. I see New York Citys suc-cess as part Mailmans success, saidDr. Farley. To achieve our initiatives,we need smart employees, trained inscience and skills of public healththe

knowledge that comes from researchdone by schools of public health. TheMailman School of Public Health pro-vides both of these.

This past year, 34 percent of the in-terns in the Citys Department of HealthResearch Training Program came fromthe Mailman School, many of whomwent on to be hired full-time.

The gala raised in excess of its targetof $1 million. The funds will support keySchool-wide initiatives, including thosefocused on the prevention of obesityand chronic disease. The event wasorganized by the Ofce of Institutional

Advancement with gala co-chairs SusanPatricof , Perri Peltz , Diana Taylor , andElizabeth Hess Williams .

Faculty Researchers Weighthe Bloomberg EffectA suite of research projects now underway may serve as aroadmap for urban health policy in the coming years. Five Mailmanfaculty have received funding to evaluate the far-reaching publichealth policies undertaken by the Bloomberg Administration. New

York Community Trust has provided a grant to Gina Lovasi , RyanDemmer , and Y. Claire Wang to look at how effective the policieswere in preventing chronic disease in the city. (Drs. Lovasi andDemmer are assistant professors of Epidemiology; Dr. Wang isassistant professor of Health Policy and Management.) The Robert

Wood Johnson Foundation has funded Peter Muennig , associateprofessor of Health Policy and Management, to estimate theimpact of the policies on life expectancy, and Miriam Laugesen ,assistant professor of Health Policy and Management, to analyzeand document recent public health initiatives in the City. Read aQ&A with Dr. Laugesen and co-investigator Kimberly Isett on theRWJ website: http://bit.ly/IzRBPl .

Adding to this portfolio of urban health policy research, Dr.Wang has already published on the caloric impact of a 16-ounceportion size cap on sugar-sweetened beverages served in restau-rants and on the potential impact of a tax on the beverages.

Urban Health, GloballyAround the world, more people are living in cities than everbefore. Urban environments increasingly shape our health andprovide opportunities to improve it. Seizing on this demographicsea change is the Mailman School Urban Health Initiative, whichwill leverage the Universitys eight Global Centers, situated incities across ve continents.

Although excellent scholarship has already identied some ofthe key features of cities that drive population health, this work isbest done across cities, writes Sandro Galea, chair and GelmanProfessor of Epidemiology, who leads the initiative. The ColumbiaUniversity network of Global Centers creates a unique opportunity

to explore how cities inuence health globally.Looking ahead, the Urban Health Initiative will pursuecollaborationsboth interdisciplinary and intercontinentalandfoster scholarship geared to advancing the science of urban healthand reconguring urban environments to maximize health andwellbeing for all ages.

Top, Left to Right: Deborah Jimenez, John Rowe, Frank Jimenez, and New York City Health

Commissioner Thomas Farley. Bottom: Thomas Farley poses with his award from the Mailman

School. On his right: Dean Linda P. Fried and John Rowe.
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High Marks for theColumbia MPHIn two articles in the American Journal of PublicHealth , Dean Linda P. Fried , Melissa Begg , SandroGalea and other architects of the new Columbia MPH

reect on its rationale and design and report on apreliminary survey nding students and faculty areenthusiastic with the outcome. Among students, 90percent were positive about the quality of instruction;93 percent of faculty responded that students wereintellectually engaged. The articles, which presenteducational strategies for curriculum reform, buildon the Innovations in Public Health Educationconference hosted by the Mailman School in Juneand attended by close to 50 deans and associateddeans of public health schools.

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PTSD-Obesity Linkin WomenWomen with PTSD gained weight more rapidly andwere more likely to be overweight or obese thanwomen without the disorder, found Karestan Koenen ,associate professor of Epidemiology, in a paper pub-

lished in JAMA Psychiatry . It is the rst study to lookat the relationship between PTSD and obesity overtime. PTSD is not just a mental health issue, saysDr. Koenen. Along with cardiovascular disease anddiabetes, we can now add obesity to the list of knownhealth risks of the disorder.

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Air Pollution andPsychological DistressDuring Pregnancy Linkedto Childhood BehaviorProblemsMaternal psychological distress combined withexposure to air pollution during pregnancy canhave an adverse impact on the childs behavioraldevelopment, according to researchers at theColumbia Center for Childrens EnvironmentalHealth. The combination of physical andpsychosocial stressors during fetal developmentmagnies the effect of each exposure, says leadauthor Frederica Perera , director of the Center andprofessor of Environmental Health Sciences. Resultsappear in the journal Pediatrics .

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Counseling at Timeof HIV Testing DoesNot Prevent STDsRisk-reduction counseling at the time of a rapidHIV test was not effective for reducing new sexually

transmitted infections after six months amongpersons at risk for HIV, according to the results of arandomized, multicenter trial published in JAMA.These study ndings lend support for reconsideringthe role of counseling as an essential adjunct to HIVtesting, says lead researcher Lisa Metsch , chair andStephen Smith Professor of Sociomedical Sciences.This inference is further buttressed by the additionalcosts associated with counseling at the time oftesting, added Dr. Metsch.

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1) The newly remodeled main stairwell inthe Allan Roseneld Building opened in Sep-tember. Information-rich wall displays takestair-goers on a tour of public health prog-ress in New York City through 71 historical

vignettes. Learn more: http://bit.ly/1gioBdm2) Grand Rounds Speaker Steven Woolf ,director of the Virginia CommonwealthUniversity Center on Society and Health,met with a group of doctoral students onSeptember 18.

3) Tim Tan , an MPH student in Populationand Family Health and eld medical directorfor NYC Medics in Guiuan, Philippines, ad-ministers emergency medical care to thoseaffected by Typhoon Haiyan.

4) David Rosner holds a pink mustache at anOctober 25 symposium and party honoringthe famously mustachioed Ron Bayer and hisquarter century at the Mailman School.

5) Mailman faculty and students wereamong those performing Beethovens FifthSymphony and other works on November 17as part of the Columbia University Medi-cal Center orchestra. Read more about theCUMC orchestra: http://bit.ly/1eTBPcD

6) Ilona Kickbusch , director of the GlobalHealth Programme at the Graduate Instituteof International and Development Studies inGeneva, discussed chronic disease preven-tion at a November 7 Deans Seminar. Theseries continues in 2014 (see Events).

7) Later in the day, Ariel Pablos-Mndez ,MPH 92, Assistant Administrator for GlobalHealth at USAID, presented on the future ofglobal health.

8) Matt Perzanowski (pictured with woodenspoon) took top honors in the Sixth AnnualEnvironmental Health Sciences Chili Cook-Off on November 8. A total of 93 votes werecast using dried chilies.

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A Thousand Hillsto HeavenIn a memoir titled A Thousand Hillsto Heaven , Josh Ruxin , assistantprofessor of Health Policy andManagement, writes of his experienceof healing a Rwandan village, raisinga family near the old killing elds, andbuilding a restaurant named Heaven.

Introducing GlobalHealth: Practice,Policy and SolutionsPeter Muennig , associate professor

of Health Policy and Management, isa co-author of the textbook, Introduc-ing Global Health: Practice, Policy andSolutions , a contemporary overview ofthe major issues in global public health.

Play Pretty BluesPlay Pretty Blues, a novel bySnowden Wright , an administratorin Health Policy and Management,explores the mysteries of blueslegend Robert Johnson.

A Life Course Approach

to Mental DisordersProfessors Karestan Koenen , associ-ate professor of Epidemiology, EzraSusser, professor of Epidemiology,and Sandro Galea , chair of Epidemiol-ogy, along with postdoctoral fellowSasha Rudenstine are authors of thetextbook A Life Course Approach toMental Disorders .

The PhilippinesNext Challenge: RebuildingIts Public Health

Wells contaminated with salt water wereamong the public health problems facingFilipinos in the wake of typhoon Haiyan.The water wont be drinkable in the timewhen they need it the most, Les Roberts ,associate professor of Population andFamily Health, told TIME Magazine.http://ti.me/1aA2S8K

Trip Wire: Q&Awith Epidemiologist Stephen Morse

In a Q&A with Discover Magazine, StephenMorse , professor of Epidemiology, talkedabout his role as director of the PREDICTproject and the biggest threats for a pan-demic outbreak. http://bit.ly/18CQvOS

Age Friendly New York City HelpsSeniors Stay Active in the Big Apple

As part of a PBS Newshour segment aboutthe Age-Friendly NYC initiative, Dean LindaP. Fried explained that urban design gearedto benet older people, in fact, benets allage groups. http://to.pbs.org/1dQmTQe

Health exchanges go live on Tues-day, but are the websites ready?

IIn a September 30 interview with the nation-ally syndicated radio program Marketplace,Michael Sparer , chair of Health Policy andManagement, stressed that creating onlineexchanges for the Affordable Care Act was ahuge undertaking. http://bit.ly/19tO77F

Cloudy, With a Chance of Flu

An editorial by Bloomberg News underlinedthe value of a u forecasting systemdeveloped by Jeffrey Shaman , assistantprofessor of Environmental Health Sciences.Many lives are at stake: Flu kills from 3,000to 49,000 people in the U.S. every year, theeditors wrote. http://bloom.bg/1cTyidf

In Nursing Homes, an Epidemicof Poor Dental Hygiene

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DATE EVENT TOPIC LOCATION

DECEMBER 12 DEANS SEMINAR PREVENTION OF INCARCERATIONWITH JEFFREY FAGEN

HESS COMMONS

JAN UARY 14 SCHOOL ASSEMBLY NEWS AND REPORTS 8TH FLOOR AUDITORIUM

JAN UARY 30 DEANS SEMINAR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTIONWITH DENNIS J. SELKOE

8TH FLOOR AUDITORIUM

FEBRUARY 5 GRAND ROUNDS TAKING ACTION TO ADDRESS THEU.S. HEALTH GAP WITH ROBERT J. SAMPSON

ALUMNI AUDITORIUM

FEBRUARY 11 SCHOOL ASSEMBLY NEWS AND REPORTS 8TH FLOOR AUDITORIUM

FEBRUARY 25 DEANS SEMINAR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTIONWITH ABRAHAM AVIV

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