FYI
New Hopkins Sommer Scholars Program
at Bloomberg School
-- Various Deadlines --
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UC Berkeley Students Win Prize for Looking at Health as “Neglected Disease”
June 30, 2006 - A team of graduate students at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, won a "Bears Breaking Boundaries" award in the category of "Neglected Diseases."
Dorothy S. Thomas Award Winner Announced
March 2006 - This year's recipient of the Dorothy S. Thomas Award is Kate Strully, a first year scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program. Kate Strully, who completed her Ph.D. last year, won the award for best dissertation paper from the Population Association of America, for her chapter/paper entitled, "Job Loss, Unemployment, and Poor Health." This award is presented annually and recognizes the outstanding graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables, with research that includes empirical analysis. Previous recipients of this award include Health & Society Scholars Program alumni, Sarah Burgard in 2003.
NIH Director Welcomes Five New Members to the Advisory Committee to the Director
February 15, 2006 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected five individuals to serve as members of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD). Since 1966, the ACD has advised the NIH Director on policy and planning issues.
Secondary sex ratios and male lifespan: Damaged or culled cohorts
January 23, 2006 - Population stressors reportedly reduce the human secondary sex ratio (i.e., the odds of a newborn’s being male) by, among other mechanisms, inducing the spontaneous abortion of males who would have been born live had mothers not been stressed.
Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice
January 4, 2006 - JAMA review of Jason Corburn's latest book. Jason is an alumnus of the first cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program.
Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging women
December 8, 2005 - This study examined the interplay of social engagement, sleep quality, and plasma levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in a sample of aging women (n = 74, aged 61–90, M age = 73.4).
Sleep, sociability may keep grandma healthy
December 6, 2005 - New research shows that aging women who sleep well and/or have strong social ties have lower levels of interleukin-6, an immune system protein that promotes inflammation and that tends to increase with age.
Penn researcher wins awards from two major cardiovascular research organizations
November 16, 2005 - The American Heart Association and the Association of Black Cardiologists both present national awards to Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika.
Genomics and Population Health 2005 Report
November 4, 2005 - CDC's Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention (OGDP) announces the publication of the Genomics and Population Health 2005 Report . The report is available online at http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/activities/ogdp/2005.htm. For a free copy, please e-mail Sheri Jordan at snj4@cdc.gov or call 770-488-8510.
Burton Singer Named to Institute of Medicine
October 30, 2005 - Burton Singer, a Princeton faculty member since 1994, has been named a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Antibacterial Cleaning Products and Drug Resistance
October 20, 2005 - Published study of Allison Aiello, Health & Society Scholars Program alumni (2003-2005) is receiving attention. Concern is growing over the use of household cleaning and hygiene products labeled as antibacterial as a result of laboratory data showing a link between exposure to ingredients in these products, particularly triclosan, and emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance. Other related items can be found at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1233930, http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051020/hl_nm/soap_dc, and http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1233632
Health Disparities in the Gulf Coast Before and After Katrina: The Public Health Response
September 23, 2005 - Statement of the National Association of County & City Health Officials
Health Officials Call for Neighborhood Approach to Prevent More Katrinas, Reduce Disparities
September 22, 2005 -The nation’s top organization of local public health experts recommended today placing more resources and control over emergency response decision making, planning, and zoning, into the hands of neighborhood groups.
September 20, 2005 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and other cosponsors recently awarded over $5 million to 11 new and continuing Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers In Women’s Health (BIRCWH) programs nationwide.
STREET SCIENCE - Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice
August 2005 - When environmental health problems arise in a community, policymakers must be able to reconcile the first-hand experience of local residents with recommendations by scientists. In this highly original look at environmental health policymaking, Jason Corburn shows the ways that local knowledge can be combined with professional techniques to achieve better solutions for environmental health problems.
Go Behind the Scenes of Health Policymaking: Oct. 24-27, 2005
August 22, 2005 - This three-and-a-half day health policy orientation has grown to be a highly regarded program that provides a behind the scenes look at policymaking in Washington. Each year, the orientation receives rave reviews from participants who cite its strengths as speakers' knowledge, ability of speakers to communicate complex processes clearly, and its small group format.
July 22, 2005 - The Federal agencies are now seeking input from the research community--scientists, research administrators, and organizations that represent components of the scientific research community--on how best to implement this policy.
Studies Rebut Earlier Report on Pledges of Virginity
June 15, 2005 - The Heritage team says that Dr. Bearman's team "deliberately misled the press and the public" about some of its findings in the May 22nd article below. "That is an offensive statement," Dr. Bearman said.
Dirtier Air May Increase Risk Of Heart Problems in Diabetics
June 2, 2005 - Article features Marie O'Neill, a Cohort 2 Scholar at the Michigan site of the Health & Society Scholars Program.
Healthy Populations Nurture Healthy People
Spring 2005 - A broad vision of population health is the most effective path to improved health for individuals.
Spring 2005 - Potential benefits depend on linking genetic and environmental data in designing research, developing applications, and forging public policies.
Researchers use maps to gain insights into childhood obesity
May 29, 2005 - Article features Dennis Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania who recently spoke at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
May 27, 2005 - Dr. Link is a site director for the Health & Society Scholars Program at our Columbia University site
Witnessing Violence Can Trigger Violent Behavior
May 26, 2005 - Article features incoming Health & Society Scholar Jeffrey Bingenheimer who joins our Harvard University site in the fall of 2005
Virginity Pledges Don't Cut STDs
May 22, 2005 - Article features Peter Bearman, a site director for the Health & Society Scholars Program at the Columbia University site
A happy heart seems to do a body good
March 8, 2005 - Article features current Health & Society Scholar Elliot Friedman (University of Wisconsin site)
February 27, 2005 - It's that time when the world holds its breath: the annual ritual when we wait to see which glittering and famous person will become even more glittering and more famous.
Study Links Air Pollutants To Chromosomal Abnormalities
February 18, 2005 - A new study of 60 newborns in New York City reveals that prenatal exposure to combustion-related urban air pollutants alters the structure of chromosomes (the carriers of genes) of babies in the womb.
More evidence on the risks of passive smoking
February 5, 2005 - Article features Ichiro Kawachi, a site director for the Health & Society Scholars Program at the Harvard University site
January 12, 2005 - Nicholas D Kristof Op-Ed column deplores infant mortality rates in United States, which is higher than rate for Cuba...
Psychologist David Abrams to Head Key NIH Office
January 1, 2005 - Brown University psychologist David Abrams has been tapped as the third director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at NIH.
How Are We Doing? Researchers Aim to Measure National Well Being
December 2, 2004 - Article based on the following report: Kahneman D, Krueger AB, Schkade DA, Schwarz N, Stone AA. A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: the day reconstruction method. Science 2004;306(5702):1776-80.
* Visit our Recent Journal Publications page under Readings to view an article by S. Leonard Syme who is on faculty at the Health & Society Scholars Program, University of California, Berkeley site
January 27, 2006 - Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist, director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, received the first annual Minority Health Knowledge Award from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health.
Dr. Susan C. Scrimshaw to be next President of Simmons College in Boston
December 20, 2005 - Dr. Susan C. Scrimshaw, an internationally renowned scholar and visionary leader, will be the next President of Simmons College.
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health Services Research
November 28, 2005 - Martha Bruce to lead a new post-doctoral fellowship.
September 28, 2005 - Sick people couldn't get their medicine. There weren't enough doctors and nurses to staff emergency clinics. The frail died in evacuee shelters because there was no one to care for them. Some of the worst problems to afflict residents of the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast occurred when the public health system broke down. Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of public health for Los Angeles County, went to New Orleans and saw conditions firsthand, helping Louisiana officials by day and sleeping at night on dining chairs in a hotel ballroom. Upon returning to Los Angeles, he spoke to The Times.
UIC SPH Dean Wins Annual Free Throw Competition for 2nd Year in Row
February 25, 2005 - Dean Susan Scrimshaw (University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health) and student Ms. Jennifer Layden-Almer have brought the Challenge of the Deans golden basketball trophy back to the school of public health for the second year in a row.
Center for Minority Health to Host Fifth Annual Summit on Elimination of Health Disparities
January 14, 2005 - Article features Kenneth Olden of the Health & Society Scholars Program National Advisory Committee
Fineberg Professorship Established at HSPH to Advance Practice of Public Health
January 7, 2005 - Dr. Fineberg is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Health & Society Scholars Program
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