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Alumni Quick Links Connections, the Alumni Newsletter - Alumni Directory Search - HPAA Employment Opportunities McGrew chosen for highly prized Barr award Charles W. McGrew received this year’s Barr Distinguished Alumni Award for achievements and contributions to the field of public health. McGrew was honored at the School of Public Health’s Foard Lecture, held April 14 at The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. McGrew, deputy director and chief operating officer of the Arkansas Department of Health, has held a number of leadership positions in the Department of Health. Arkansas’ public health system has 93 local health units in 75 counties.  Under McGrew’s direction, health services in the state were organized into a unified agency, resulting in improved access to care. As the Department of Health’s liaison to the Governor’s Office, McGrew created In-Home Services, a $65 million Medicare-certified agency that delivers private duty nursing, personal care, high-risk maternity care and hospice services statewide to more than 26,000 Arkansans. Thanks to McGrew’s efforts, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement was established.  The Center’s efforts allowed Arkansas to become the only state to devote funds from the nationwide tobacco settlement entirely to health care, resulting in the founding of the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. McGrew also is responsible for creating legislation and funding for the building of a new state-of-the-art facility for the state’s Public Health Laboratory. In 2006, he helped convince the Arkansas legislature to pass the Clean Air Act, known to be the single most effective way to reduce smoking rates and protect nonsmokers from the dangers of secondhand smoke. McGrew received a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and administration from the UNC School of Public Health in 1973. Established in 1975, the Barr Award recognizes the achievements of alumni and their contributions to public health. For many years, the alumni award has carried the name of its 1980 recipient — Harriet Hylton Barr — to honor her contributions to the field, which continue to this day. The Barr Award recognizes leadership, experimentation, collaboration and innovation within the profession; impact within the practice arena; and outstanding service beyond the requirements of the recipient's employment.   # # # School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu Anthony R. Measham, M.D., Dr. P.H. wins HPAA 2008 Alumni Leadership Award Dr. Anthony R. Measham was presented with the department's Alumni Leadership Award by chair Dr. Peggy Leatt, PhD at the annual HPAA Awards ceremony, held on April 17, 2008. Dr. Measham was honored for his long and distinguished career in world health.  The text of the awards citation reads: "Tony Measham is a leader who has built his career around serving people. He has helped to develop projects in more than 20 developing countries, primarily in the areas of maternal and child health, family planning, and nutrition. His work pertaining to these projects has included provision of technical assistance, collaborative research, and analysis. Serving the global community has been Tony’s motivation for most of his career, and he has done that in remarkable fashion. Born in the United Kingdom, Tony practiced family medicine in Nova Scotia before devoting the remainder of his career to international health. He received a master of science and a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is a diplomat of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He spent 15 years living in Colombia, Bangladesh, and India working on behalf of the Population Council, the Ford Foundation and the World Bank.  Between his service in Colombia and Bangladesh, he was deputy director of the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University. Tony spent 17 years on the staff of the World Bank, serving as health adviser from 1984 until 1988 and chief of policy and research in the Health, Nutrition, and Population Division from 1988 until 1993. He has gained a reputation as a great builder, devoted to bringing and expanding needed health services to regions that have been historically underserved. At the World Bank, he led successful initiatives in the areas of safe motherhood and tobacco control. He has authored over 70 monographs, book chapters, and journal articles. The balance between prevention and treatment is a hallmark of Tony’s career and is characteristic of his legacy of devoted service. Tony has been recognized repeatedly by his colleagues and peers for his achievements that are known throughout the world. Since his formal retirement in 1999, Tony has continued to work for the World Bank as a consultant on immunization, nutrition, and public health. He also serves on the Board of the Wellesley Centers for Women. He was co-managing editor of the Disease Control Priorities Project at the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health; deputy director of the Communicating Health Priorities Project at the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC; and is a member of the Working Group of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) on behalf of the World Bank Today it is a privilege to say that Tony is a Health Policy and Administration alumnus, a friend of global public health, and a worthy recipient of the Department’s Alumni Leadership Award.     For the Faculty of the Department of Health Policy and Administration Given at Chapel Hill, this 17th day of April, 2008  Peggy Leatt, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Got news? Contact: Cathy Padgett Career Services Coordinator 919-966-7390 Cathy_Padgett@unc.edu   Content for this page provided by the Department of Health Policy and Administration. Please contact the webmaster with any questions or comments.

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