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Recent News
 Commencement weekend: School of Public Health welcomes new alumni
Despite darkening clouds that later delivered the downpour they promised, the lightheartedness of students lined up to enter Memorial Hall on Saturday, May 12, seemed to make the world a brighter place.
Joined by their families, friends and faculty from the School of Public Health, most of this spring’s 259 graduates participated in the School’s commencement ceremony, which began at 2 p.m. at the newly renovated Hall. Among the graduates were 48 undergraduates, 187 master’s and 24 doctoral students representing 32 states and 15 countries. [more]
View the 2007 Foard Lecture online!
Water and Human Well-being
by John Briscoe, PhD, Country Director for Brazil for the World Bank
2007 Fred T. Foard, Jr. Memorial Lecture
April 20, 2007
UNC School of Public Health Alumni Awards
The Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award Aaron E. Blair, PhD, MPH '76, Chief of the Occupational and Environmental Branch at the National Cancer Institute, is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumnus Award, the School's single highest alumni honor. [more]
The Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award
Susan T. Ennett, PhD ’91, MSPH ’87, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, received the Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award. [more]
Alumni Updates
Dr. Nathan Kenya-Mugisha (MPH '93) Is Part of Health Delegation in Washington to Advance Pepfar and Partnerships
(March 19, 2008) A delegation of senior health officials from nine African nations visited Washington last week, advocating personally for PEPFAR's reauthorization and expansion, as well as stronger partnerships with diverse stakeholders to bolster the region's healthcare systems. The delegation of leaders, on the front-line of Africa's battle against HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases, was hosted by The Whitaker Group. [more]
Kenneth M. Cox, Au.D., M.P.H., CCC-A has been appointed to serve as the Associate Dean of the Waldron College of Health and Human Services at Radford University (RU). Dr. Cox assumes the position after being the Chairman for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at RU for the past two and a half years.
Alumna to Moderate Course at Pediatric Integrative Medicine Conference
Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH, Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics provisional section on complementary, holistic and integrative medicine, will present a course on "Developing Integrative Practices" at The Pangea Conference in San Francisco, Calif., October 25-26, 2007.
The Pangea Conference provides a forum for presentation and dialogue about leading topics in pediatric integrative medicine.
Dr. Kemper, one of the leading pediatric integrative medicine specialists in the country, works at Brenner Children’s Hospital at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
She earned an MPH degree in 1983 in our Department of Maternal and Child Health.
 Andrew Shapiro Named UNC Entrepreneurial Public Service Fellow Shapiro’s project, Biodiesel Production for Farmers in Rural Thailand, and his collaboration with the Population and Community Development Association earned the recent graduate a UNC Entrepreneurial Public Service Fellowship. [more]
 Public Health Leader Marshall OD of Year
The Indiana Optometric Association’s Edwin C. Marshall, O.D., MPH, has been named the AOA 2007 Optometrist of the Year.
Dr. Marshall is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Optometry. He serves in roles as an educator, administrator, clinician, and public servant. He has more than 35 years of service to optometry, aligning with its mission to protect and advance the health of the public. [more]
School alumnus named dean at Indiana University
Indiana University recently announced that UNC School of Public Health alumnus Dr. Robert M. Goodman will soon become dean of IU's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation in Bloomington, Indiana.
Visit the IU Web site for more information.
Gallagher receives Purdue Alumni Achievement Award
Dr. Jane Gallagher, principal investigator in the Human Studies Division of the US EPA, has been awarded the 2006 Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award from Purdue University.
Selections for these awards are made by a senior faculty committee and approved by the entire Civil Engineering faculty. The awards are based on career achievements, work on significant projects, and community involvement/leadership qualities. [more]
 Staveley elected president of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America
Denver, Colorado - ARCADIS (NASDAQ: ARCAF, EURONEXT: ARCAD) is pleased to announce that Jane Staveley was elected as president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America (SETAC North America or SNA). Staveley, principal environmental scientist and business practice manager with ARCADIS, will serve as president of SNA North America from November 2006 to November 2007. [more]
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Alumni News Briefs
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Patricia L. Bright, MSPH ’93, PhD ’03, is a research associate in the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Wichai Aekplakorn, PhD ’01, is living in Bangkok, Thailand. He is an associate professor at Ramathibodi Hospital’s Community Medicine Center.
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Shannon B. Jackson, BSPH '01, is a clinical dietitian supervisor at the Wilson Medical Center in Wilson, NC.
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Lisa M. Schweigler, MPH ’03, is a resident in the University of Michigan Hospitals.
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Laura M. Sterling, MPH ’03, is an assistant professor in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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John Bates Hipps, MPH ’03, is a pediatric resident at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Barrett Robinson, MPH ’03, is a clinical fellow in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA.
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Sonali Kulkarni, PhD ’04, is a resident at the University of California clinics in San Francisco.
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Georgeta D. Vaidean, PhD ’04, is an assistant professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Tennessee at Memphis.
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Kristie McClamroch, PhD ’04, is an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the State University of New York at Albany.
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William E. Humphries, III, MPH ’05, is a resident at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.
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Mayra Alvarez, MHA ’05, recently accepted the position of legislative assistant for health for the Senate Majority Whip, Senator Richard Durbin. She previously worked in the office of Congresswoman Hilda Solis.
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Mishka Terplan, MPH ’06, is an assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago.
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Mangombo Prime Mulembakani, MPH ’06, is a research associate at the Kinshasa School of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Carla Wright Picardo, MPH ’06, works as an ob-gyn doctor for Community Health Net and an instructor in ob-gyn and preventative medicine for the Family Medicine Residency Program at St. Vincent Health Center in Erie, PA. She also conducts independent research in reproductive health.
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May Baydoun, PhD ‘06, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She’s working in the Center for Human Nutrition within the Department of International Health.
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Rebecca Leigh Coelho, MPH ’06, is a dietitian and health educator at the Intelligent Health Center, a private practice endocrinologist’s office, in Atlanta, GA. She plans to further her education by earning a CDE.
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Mary K. Wojczynski, PhD ’06, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Biostatistics.
- James Connell Gear, DrPH ’06, is a senior statistician at the Midwest Employers Casualty Company in Chesterfield, MO.
- Melissa A. Troester, MPH '06, is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health
- Lauren L. Murphey, MS '06, is a project manager for ifPeople in Atlanta, GA.
For past news briefs, please see the Alumni News Archives.
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In Memoriam
Doris McHan Hummer ('54 BSPHN PHNU) of Redmond, OR; March 3, 2008
James Arthur Hancock, Jr. ('51 MSPH PALP) of Rocky Mount, VA; February 23, 2008
Paul Doyle Van Zandt ('55 MSPH PALP; '60 PHD PALP) of Poland, OH; February 19, 2008
Randolph Wayland Shotwell ('66 MPH HPAA) of Virginia Beach, VA; February 6, 2008
Pamela Elaine Noel ('01 PHD MCH) of Iowa City, IA; February 2, 2008
Luz Divina Tirado ('46 MSPH HBHE) of Las Cruces, NM; January 31, 2008
Amedee Simeon Landry ('69 MSPH HPAA) of Los Lunas, NM; January 25, 2008
Katherine Gartland Kelley ('77 MPH PALP; '79 DRPH PALP) of Bloomfield, CT; December 29, 2007
Robert Nixon Taylor, Jr. ('76 MPH HPAA) of Front Royal, VA; December 29, 2007
Mary Ann Murphy ('70 MPH PHNU) of Eau Claire, WI; December 16, 2007
John Bernard Gascoyne ('75 MPH HPAA) of Appomattox, VA; December 10, 2007
R. C. Steele ('53 MSSE ENVR) of Arvada, CO; November 27, 2007
John Eugene Pipes ('50 MPH PALP) of Lynchburg, VA; November 19, 2007
Sally Ann Farrand ('63 MPH HPAA) of Chapel Hill, NC; November 14, 2007
Jeffrey Lee McMurtrie ('83 MSPH ENVR) of Salem, OR; November 5, 2007
Bettie Louise Nelson ('73 MSPH BIOS; '83 DRPH BIOS) of Richmond, VA; October 18, 2007
Willie Gordon Bunch ('47 MSPH HBHE) of Jacksonville, FL; October 14, 2007
Frances Roberta Pursley ('59 MPH PHNU) of Longview, TX; October 3, 2007
Lucius Lee Ardrey Moore, Jr. ('50 MSPH PALP; '65 PHD PALP) of Atlanta, GA; September 21, 2007
George Alfred Langston, Jr. ('51 MSPH ENVR) of Statesville, NC; September 13, 2007
Rebecca Broach Bryan ('52 MPH NUTR) of Atlanta, GA; September 13, 2007
Virginia Coker Phillips ('51 BSPHN PHNU; '58 MPH PHNU) of Florence, SC; August 20, 2007
Betty Bass Garrison ('85 MPH PHNU) of Charlotte, NC; August 18, 2007
Takao Lewis Sato ('82 MPH BIOS) of Rockville, MD; August 12, 2007
George Grundy Dudney ('62 MPH HPAA) of Gainesboro, TN; July 22, 2007
Elizabeth Elphabelle Mumm ('48 MPH HBHE) of Sun City, AZ; July 21, 2007
William Arthur Wright ('72 MSPH ENVR) of Phoenix, AZ; July 17, 2007
Haskell Solomon Tubiash ('47 MSPH PALP) of Yardley, PA; April 23, 2007
William R. Walker ('64 MSSE ENVR) of Blacksburg, VA; March 21, 2007
Betty Brown Cain ('47 CPHN PHNU) of Sumter, SC; March 4, 2007
Mary E. Foster Webb ('46 MSPH HBHE) of Albemarle, NC; March 4, 2007
Doris Parker Hill ('48 CPHN PHNU) of Welcome, NC; February 6, 2007
Zeta Garland Ruegger ('54 CPHN PHNU) of Johnson City, TN; January 1, 2007
James Austin McCullough ('40 MSPH ENVR) of Vienna, VA; January 31, 2007
Dorothy Fay Dunn ('46 MSPH HBHE) of Urbana, IL; March 6, 2007
Samuel Kaufman ('47 MSPH PALP) of Palm Beach Gardens, FL; July 19, 2005
Annie Ray Moore ('47 MPH HBHE) of Greensboro, NC; April 9, 2007
Marion Claude Riser, Jr. ('47 MPH HBHE) of Tallahassee, FL; January 2, 2007
Nettie Day Ellis ('48 MPH HBHE) of Raleigh, NC; January 8, 2007
James Ford Hughey, Sr. ('51 MSPH ENVR) of Gastonia, NC; January 21, 2007
George McKibben Ineichen ('51 MSPH HBHE) of Rayville, LA; February 12, 2007
Billy Lee Ferguson ('55 MSPH PALP) of Greensboro, NC; June 7, 2007
William Carlton Byrd, Sr. ('58 MPH HBHE) of Greenville, NC; January 7, 2007
William Jerome McCord ('58 MSPH HBHE) of Columbia, SC; June 22, 2007
M. A. Shepherd ('59 MPH HPAA) of Somerset, KY; March 7, 2007
Basil Wasyl Pshyk ('62 MPH HPAA) of Durham, NC; April 23, 2007
Robert Leroy Scott ('62 MPH HBHE) of Monroe, NC; June 25, 2007
Robert Charles Tice, Jr. ('63 MPH HPAA) of Nashville, TN; June 5, 2007
William Harrison Utt ('64 MPH HPAA) of Nashville, TN; August 20, 2003
Elizabeth E. Neu ('66 MPH PALP) of Rochelle, IL; May 1, 2004
Elizabeth Edna Allen ('67 MPH PHNU) of Omaha, NE; April 9, 2006
Kenneth William Haase ('68 MSPH BIOS) of Locust Grove, VA; February 17, 2007
Frances Carlton Crutcher ('69 MPH PHNU) of Atlanta, GA; February 17, 2007
Hugh-Bert Ehrhard ('69 MPH PALP; '71 DRPH PALP) of Modesto, CA; August 23, 2006
Catherine Sause Eastwood ('69 MPH PHNU) of Ponce Inlet, FL; December 15, 2006
Daniel Martin Rosof ('69 MPH HPAA) of Franklin, TN; September 6, 2006
Joan H. Conway (' 71 MPH MHCH) of Pittsburgh, PA; July 8, 2007
Robert Coleman Watson ('71 MPH HPAA) of Jeffersonville, GA; January 5, 2007
Jessie Pittman Sisk ('73 MPH NUPH) of North Myrtle Beach, SC; January 20, 2007
Gretchen Simmons Webster ('74 MPH PHNU) of Sioux Falls, SD; August 20, 2004
Meredith Lee Cosby ('75 MPH HBHE) of Raleigh, NC; April 30, 2007
Jane Pfeifle ('76 MPH PHNU) of Silvis, IL; April 22, 2007
Della Sue Simonson ('77 MPH HPAA) of Butner, NC; May 21, 2007
Kamal Butros Salameh ('78 MPH HPAA) of Roswell, GA; September 9, 2005
Millicent Knierim Stuntz ('80 MPH MHCH) of Salisbury, NC; Februrary 8, 2007
Robert K. Creighton, Jr. ('88 MPH HPAA) of Wilmington, NC; September 11, 2005
Bret Conaway Williams ('88 MPH MHCH) of Efland, NC; May 14, 2007
Christopher Glenn Reuther ('97 BSPH ENVR) of Apex, NC; April 26, 2007
Ashfaque Hossain ('99 MPH MHCH) of Jamaica, NY; September 24, 2005
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