The U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender’s Gender and Global Health Program presents:
 
"Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges of Measuring Gender and Women’s Empowerment"
Sunita Kishor, Senior Gender Advisor, Macro Int’l 
 
Lunch will be served, RSVP to jbaughn@umich.edu
 
This event is free and open to the public, though reservations are required to:
Ruti Galia Levtov - rlevtov@umich.edu

It is cosponsored by the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center.

Volunteer with other SPH folks as they cook a meal for the homeless.

All HBHE alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends are invited to the 5th Annual HBHE Staying Connected Reception.

Reunite with old friends, meet up with colleagues, and make new connections. Drop in and join us for some great food and drink before you head over to the SPH school-wide Keep In Touch Reception immediately following.

If you live in the Philadelphia area, please join us. APHA meeting attendance is NOT required.

Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to start a food business or farmers' market, or wondered why Michigan grows so much corn?

The Sustainable Agriculture Working Group invites you to the next event in our speaker series "Fixing the Food System: From Vision to Action" "Food and Agriculture Policies from Legislation to Practice:
How Did We Get to Where We Are?"

Brad Deacon
Emergency Management and Administrative Law Coordinator - Michigan Department of Agriculture

Mr. Deacon, who has been with the MDA for 10 years, will discuss current national and local agricultural policy, the political history that explains today's policy and its shortcomings, and the integration of smaller-scale local production with larger scale production within Michigan. 

Women in Health Leadership invites you to "Meet the Faculty Coffee Hour with Dr Sharon Kardia, Chair, Department of Epidemiology"

This is an excellent opportunity to ask faculty members any questions on your mind over tea, coffee, and snacks. Please RSVP if you’re interested. Space is limited!
Contact: Kangana Gupta at: kangana@umich.edu

Dr. Fernald's research program has been driven by the primary question of how inequalities and variations in socio-economic status contribute to adverse nutritional outcomes in children and adults. She has approached this question by looking both at conditions of over- and under-nutrition and the influence of individual, family and contextual characteristics on these factors, and how interventions addressing socio-economic status contribute to negative nutritional outcomes. Specifically, Dr. Fernald's research focuses on 1) the impact of economic and health interventions on nutritional status, nutrition-related health outcomes, lifestyle and behavior, and mental health; 2) links between nutritional status and factors contributing to vulnerability (such as immigrant status); and the 3) development of effective interventions using information about contextual, family and individual variability. She has published several articles and book chapters relating to nutritional deficits and child development, in addition to papers about obesity, adolescent risk behavior and stress physiology. Dr. Fernald has previously worked in Jamaica, Kenya, Nepal, Zimbabwe, India, South Africa, Colombia, and Mexico, and currently has projects in Mexico, Ecuador, and Madagascar.

Please come to the November 10th Community Health Committee Meeting! " Review progress this new statewide partnership made during its first year leveraging policies to reduce childhood obesity " Help shape its 'year-two' policy agenda " Strategize how Washtenaw County and the Community Health Committee can continue to leverage policies locally to reduce obesity "Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan: What's Happened and What's Next?" RSVP by Friday, November 6th, to koehlerk@ewashtenaw.org Lunch provided - beverages available include coffee, tea, water, vending Park in the lot west of the LRC, the church lot located south of the LRC, or the temporary gravel lot also just south.

Edward Maki-Schramm, U-M DMA in organ; organist and director of music, Central United Methodist Church, Detroit; and Ass’t Director for Fund Development and External Relations, School of Nursing, will present works by J.S. Bach (Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 549, and Prelude in E-flat Major, BWV 552), Joseph Bonnal (Petit Canon), Benedetto Marcello (Oboe Concerto in C minor, with oboist Donald Baker), and Louis Vierne (Scherzo from Symphony #2).

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch (pack your own or stop by the Glass House Cafe). Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments. Please plan to join us for these bi-weekly interludes and please feel free to share this announcement with others.

Renowned American fashion designer and humanitarian Kenneth Cole will speak about his work on the frontlines of important social and public health issues for more than 25 years.

Ever since launching Kenneth Cole Productions (KCP) in 1983 from the back of a 40-foot trailer truck in New York City, he has been at the cutting edge of the fashion establishment. He built his business by thinking outside the box and making big things happen with little money. Along the way, Kenneth Cole has become as well known for his social activism as his shoes and clothing. As Chairman of the Foundation for Aids Research (amfAR), he has made it his business to fuse fashion with social action. He will talk about HIV/AIDS and what he has done since joining the amfAR board in 1985, including his company's advertising campaigns challenging the public dialogue relating to HIV/AIDS. He will also address broader issues of corporate social responsibility and discuss how he has merged business and philanthropy, underscoring their interdependence. In addition, his talk will focus on the importance of students' involvement in effecting positive social change. He will share his thoughts about the job market today, and why it's a good time to enter the workforce because  jobs in green energy, sustainability, and public health will make a difference to the future of our planet.

University of Michigan Center for Ethics in Public Life presents: Plagiarism and College Culture

Speaker: Susan D. Blum, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame and author of:
My World! Plagiarism and College Culture
Coments by: Justin Bristol, President, LS&A Honor Council
Andrea Bartoszewicz, Vice-President, College of Engineering Honor Council

The Center for Ethics in Public Life is sponsoring a public forum on Thursday, November 12 on “Plagiarism and College Culture.”  The poster for the forum is attached and included in the body of this email.  I hope you will forward the announcement to students, staff, and faculty who might be interested and post copies on bulletin boards in your neighborhood.

Susan D. Blum, Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame, will talk about her recent book “My Word:  Plagiarism and College Culture.”   She brings an anthropologist’s eye to the high incidence of academic dishonesty reported in national surveys of college students and argues that understanding today’s college culture—more technologically saturated, results-oriented, and less centered on the individual experience than the academic culture of previous decades—is a necessary first step in addressing this issue.

Following Professor Blum’s talk, two University of Michigan students will make comments.  Justin Bristol is President of the LS&A Honor Council and Andrea Bartoszewicz is Vice-President of the Honor Council in the College of Engineering.  Both have worked extensively to create a culture of academic integrity at UM and have participated in numerous hearings of cases of alleged misconduct.  They will talk about how Professor Blum’s analysis resonates with their experiences as UM students and Honor Council members.

For information about the Center and its programs, visit our website at www.ethics.umich.edu.

Refreshments will be served.

Members of the campus community are encouraged to attend one of two upcoming informational meetings about the university plan for a smoke-free campus.

President Mary Sue Coleman announced in April the plan for U-M to be an entirely smoke-free university July 1, 2011. On that date, all university grounds and buildings on all three campuses will be designated as non-smoking areas.

When announcing the Smoke-Free University Initiative, Coleman said the change would take place gradually, allowing plenty of time for input from smokers and non-smokers. The two sessions represent the first in a comprehensive plan to share information and gather feedback from students, faculty, staff and the local community.

“Implementing a policy like this involves a lot of dimensions,” says Kenneth Warner, dean of the School of Public Health and co-chair of the Smoke Free University Steering Committee. “Much remains unresolved at this point regarding precisely how it will be implemented. Thus, we are interested in suggestions from the community as to how they believe the policy should be developed.”

Dr. Robert Winfield, chief health officer and director of the University Health Service (UHS), co-chairs the committee.

During each session, Warner will share goals for the implementation, including details of what led to the decision and the first steps that have been taken, which include formation of subcommittees to address communications, student life, human resources, grounds and facilities, and the impact on U-M visitors.

“Our hope is to create greater understanding of the purpose of the policy — to promote a healthy Michigan community, one of the president’s central goals — and to be as respectful as possible about the rights, interests and concerns of smokers.”

To that end, the various committees include faculty, staff and students from all campuses, members the local community and smoking-cessation experts. Within the groups are smokers, ex-smokers, and those who never have smoked.

A large part of the implementation plan includes helping smokers who wish to kick the habit. A new program called the MHealthy Tobacco Independence Program (MTIP) will be created through the MHealthy initiative to help faculty and staff quit, emphasizing services already offered through the U-M Health System. MTIP will include free behavioral counseling and free or reduced-cost over-the-counter anti-smoking products, as well as co-pay reductions for employees who use prescription tobacco-cessation medicines.

Similar behavioral counseling and discounts on cessation aids will be available to students through UHS.

The university has been moving toward a smoke-free campus for many years, first banning smoking in buildings (other than designated residence halls) and university vehicles in 1987. The U-M Health System became smoke free in 1998 and the Residence Halls Association eliminated smoking in the remaining residence halls in 2003.

Across the nation, 260 campuses have implemented similar policies. In Michigan, a number of colleges and universities have restricted-smoking policies, and four have policies against lighting up indoors and out: Delta College, Grand Rapids Community College, Great Lakes Christian College and Hope College, according to July 2009 data from the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation.

Those planning to attend are asked to R.S.V.P. at www.hr.umich.edu/smokefree/informationsessions.html.

Members of the community who wish to have questions answered during one of the sessions are encouraged to pose them ahead of time by e-mailing smokefreeuniversity@umich.edu

By Laurel Thomas Gnagey

Pencil in the following Biostatistically Significant Event!

The Department of Biostatistics is planning a conference to celebrate the 50th and 60th anniversaries of its creation, on November 13-14, 2009. The University of Michigan's Department of Public Health Statistics was founded sixty years ago. Ten years later it was renamed the Department of Biostatistics. Since then, the Department has developed into one of the top biostatistics departments in the country.

Please join alumni, current/former faculty, and students to reconnect with friends and classmates, to network, and to catch up on how far the department has come and learn where it's going.

The activities will include:
Friday, 11/13: Evening welcome reception and poster session
Saturday, 11/14: Day of presentations from distinguished alumni & past/present faculty
Saturday, 11/14: Evening gala dinner with a keynote speaker & special entertainment

Center for Global Health Annual Symposium:
Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Global Population Health

9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Palmer Commons, 4th floor Forum Hall
The symposium will feature case studies from three countries on three continents: India, Mexico, and Ghana, where substantial health system reform efforts have taken place over the past decade. Three speakers who have played a key role in these efforts, and who are members of the CGH External Advisory Committee, will present.

Student Global Health Day
1:30 pm -3:30 pm
Palmer Commons, Great Lakes Room Central
The Student Global Health Day will feature two speakers followed by two to three student poster presentations. Students are encouraged to submit their poster to be one of the 16 featured on display.

A reception and poster viewing will follow the speakers until 5 pm.

T-shirts for sale October 26 - 29 in SPH I. $10 M-W, $15 on Thurs.

SOS North Korea: Confronting the Human & Nuclear Security Challenges of Kim Jong-il’s DPRK
 - this will be a two part panel discussion on:
1. Human Rights concerns that are present in N. Korea under its present political situation;
2. Nuclear Security issues in N. Korea and possible UN and foreign state actions that can be used to mitigate threats

Light Korean food reception following the event

- Nicole Finneman - Director of Research & Academic Affairs, Korea Economic Institute in Washington, D.C.
- Jared Genser - Partner, DLA Piper L.L.P., prominent international lawyer
- Bruce Klingner - Former CIA head of N. Korea division, Heritage Foundation Fellow
- Evans Revere - President, Korea Society
- Monika Hakimi - Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

The School of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
Welcomes: Jose Bauermeister, Ph.D., MPH - Candidate for the Faculty Position in HBHE

Presentation: "Webs of Love and Desire: Online Partners and HIV/AIDS Risks among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men"

Jose Bauermeister is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) in the UM School of Public Health. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Bauermeister completed his MPH and PhD in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the HBHE research faculty, Dr. Bauermeister was a NIH postdoctoral fellow in the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry and Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at New York University. 

His primary research interests focus on sexuality and health, and interpersonal prevention and health promotion strategies for high-risk adolescents and young adults.  Dr. Bauermeister explores the acceptability of innovative prevention strategies among men who have sex with men. He is Principal Investigator of a mixed-method study of HIV/AIDS risk among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) who use the internet to meet romantic and sexual partners.  Dr. Bauermeister is also Co-Investigator of the Flint Adolescent Study, a longitudinal study of youth followed from adolescence into adulthood.Dr. 
Bauermeister will discuss why men who have sex with men may intentionally forego the use of condoms ("bareback") with partners met online.  He will present quantitative and qualitative findings from a study of 120 men who reported engaging in bareback sex with sexual partners met online. The research findings underscore the importance of and assessing men's expectations of partners met online and re-examining existing HIV/AIDS prevention paradigms. Implications for HIV/AIDS network-level research and intervention approaches will be discussed.
 

University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center's World Diabetes Day Health Fair

Marking the American Diabetes Association’s National Diabetes Awareness Month and the United Nations’ World Diabetes Day, the U-MComprehensive Diabetes Center's clinical and research staff will provide the latest information on diabetes research, prevention, and treatment:
 
Types 1 & 2 diabetes, diabetes & pregnancy, and pre-diabetes, talk one-on-one with U-M health experts, learn about diabetes nutrition, exercise, weight loss, and avoiding complications, sign up to participate in research studies on diabetes, visit displays by medical supply companies

FREE Screenings: glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol, and body mass/hip-waist ratio for obesity assessment

Special presentations:
9:30 a.m.: "Diabetic Foot Care" with Podiatrist Crystal Holmes, DPM, CWS
12:30 p.m.: "Planning Healthy Meals" with Cecilia Sauter, RD, CDE, Director of Diabetes Education
 
 

Dr. John Gosbee will be leading an interactive, multi-disciplinary discussion: "Human Factors Engineering: Helping you find and fix healthcare hazards that are hiding in plain sight"

MHESA members are invited to receive updates on committee plans, sign up for upcoming events, and participate in an interactive professional development activity!

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fall 2009 Health Policy Research Seminar Series
This is the third in the series of five featuring:

Jeffrey Alexander, Ph.D., Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Management and Policy
Professor, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Faculty Associate,
Survey Research Center - University of Michigan

Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

PHSA meetings are open to the student body. Those who wish to speak at meetings should request presence on the agenda by e-mailing bensette@umich.edu with name of speaker and a brief summary of discussion points.

Members of the campus community are encouraged to attend one of two upcoming informational meetings about the university plan for a smoke-free campus.

President Mary Sue Coleman announced in April the plan for U-M to be an entirely smoke-free university July 1, 2011. On that date, all university grounds and buildings on all three campuses will be designated as non-smoking areas.

When announcing the Smoke-Free University Initiative, Coleman said the change would take place gradually, allowing plenty of time for input from smokers and non-smokers. The two sessions represent the first in a comprehensive plan to share information and gather feedback from students, faculty, staff and the local community.

“Implementing a policy like this involves a lot of dimensions,” says Kenneth Warner, dean of the School of Public Health and co-chair of the Smoke Free University Steering Committee. “Much remains unresolved at this point regarding precisely how it will be implemented. Thus, we are interested in suggestions from the community as to how they believe the policy should be developed.”

Dr. Robert Winfield, chief health officer and director of the University Health Service (UHS), co-chairs the committee.

During each session, Warner will share goals for the implementation, including details of what led to the decision and the first steps that have been taken, which include formation of subcommittees to address communications, student life, human resources, grounds and facilities, and the impact on U-M visitors.

“Our hope is to create greater understanding of the purpose of the policy — to promote a healthy Michigan community, one of the president’s central goals — and to be as respectful as possible about the rights, interests and concerns of smokers.”

To that end, the various committees include faculty, staff and students from all campuses, members the local community and smoking-cessation experts. Within the groups are smokers, ex-smokers, and those who never have smoked.

A large part of the implementation plan includes helping smokers who wish to kick the habit. A new program called the MHealthy Tobacco Independence Program (MTIP) will be created through the MHealthy initiative to help faculty and staff quit, emphasizing services already offered through the U-M Health System. MTIP will include free behavioral counseling and free or reduced-cost over-the-counter anti-smoking products, as well as co-pay reductions for employees who use prescription tobacco-cessation medicines.

Similar behavioral counseling and discounts on cessation aids will be available to students through UHS.

The university has been moving toward a smoke-free campus for many years, first banning smoking in buildings (other than designated residence halls) and university vehicles in 1987. The U-M Health System became smoke free in 1998 and the Residence Halls Association eliminated smoking in the remaining residence halls in 2003.

Across the nation, 260 campuses have implemented similar policies. In Michigan, a number of colleges and universities have restricted-smoking policies, and four have policies against lighting up indoors and out: Delta College, Grand Rapids Community College, Great Lakes Christian College and Hope College, according to July 2009 data from the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation.

Those planning to attend are asked to R.S.V.P. at www.hr.umich.edu/smokefree/informationsessions.html.

Members of the community who wish to have questions answered during one of the sessions are encouraged to pose them ahead of time by e-mailing smokefreeuniversity@umich.edu

By Laurel Thomas Gnagey

Professor Daphne Barak-Erez, a visiting professor of law from Tel Aviv University, will be coming to Ann Arbor to speak about the evolution of women’s rights in Israel. She will explore the basic tensions concerning gender equality in Israel in a way that will reflect current legal challenges as well as different feminist ideologies among Israeli women. She will present a keynote speech on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:00 PM in the Vandenberg Room at the Michigan League. The speech will be titled, "Evolving Equality: Women’s Rights in Israel."

Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez is a Stewart and Judy Colton professor of law and the chair of law and security at the faculty of law. She currently serves as the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law and a member of the Council of Higher Education in Israel, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Her main areas of interests are Administrative and Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Privatization, Legal Feminism, Israeli Legal History. She is the author of several books and many articles and the recipient of such prestigious honors as including the Rector’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Zeltner Prize, the Woman of the City Award (by the City of Tel-Aviv) and the Women in Law Award (by the Israeli Bar).

This event is hosted and sponsored by the American Movement for Israel.

This event is funded by American Movement for Israel, Michigan Student Assembly, LSA Student Government, and the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning.*

This event is supported by the F Word, Society of Women Engineers, Women and Gender in Public Policy, Women in Health Leadership, the Feminist Toolshed, Women Law Students Association, Michigan Business Women, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies, Center for International and Comparative Law, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Center for Middle East Studies, and the Women’s Studies Department.

*Funds are provided by the Ginsberg Center to help raise awareness and discussion of these issues on campus.  The viewpoints expressed therein do not necessarily reflect those of the Ginsberg Center or its programs.

The Center for Global Health invites the University community to a series
of trans-disciplinary research discussions about global health.

Please join us for the third speaker in the Research Discussion Series:

Daniel Degbotse, MSc
Deputy Head, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Health, Ghana

“Determining People's Motives for Preferring Specific Health Related Goods and Services”

The Center for Injury Prevention among Youth, a joint effort of the U-M School of Public Health and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) presents a Seminar on Pediatric Injury Prevention.

Speaker: Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, Professor and Director, Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Thom Spafford, tenor (and recent staff member in Biostat), will join members of the Vocal Arts Ensemble (and accompanist Ted Wyatt) in a performance of "Historia di Jephte" by Giacomo Carisimmi.

These are informal events to which you are invited to bring your lunch (pack your own or stop by the Glass House Cafe). Programs begin at 12:15 and end in time for you to reach your 1:00 appointments. Please plan to join us for these bi-weekly interludes and please feel free to share this announcement with others.

 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fall 2009 Health Policy Research Seminar Series
This is the fourth in the series of five featuring:

David Harding, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center - University of Michigan

Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

PHSA meetings are open to the student body. Those who wish to speak at meetings should request presence on the agenda by e-mailing bensette@umich.edu with name of speaker and a brief summary of discussion points.

As the growing field of pharmacogenomic research offers us the potential benefits of personalized medicine and targeted therapies, it also brings with it the risk of reinforcing racial differences and stereotypes. Will pharmacogenomics increase the importance of race in American society? Will it exacerbate existing inequalities and stereotypes, or will it diminish them? Are there ways to mitigate these risks, through scientific, engineering, or policy solutions? This panel, featuring keynote speaker Jonathan Kahn, explores whether and how racial concepts and categories are influencing scientific, medical, and industrial development in this arena. It will also investigate whether there are policy interventions available that will allow us to exploit the potential of pharmacogenetics, while avoiding its pitfalls.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fall 2009 Health Policy Research Seminar Series
This is the last of the series of five featuring:

Daniel Carpenter, Ph.D., Allie S. Freed Professor of Government
Department of Government - Harvard University

Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
 

 wraps up the semester with a final general meeting where committees will present updates and plans for the Winter '10 semester. We will provide holiday treats and continue our time together out on the town for an end of the semester celebration!

The Center for Global Health invites the University community to a series
of trans-disciplinary research discussions about global health.

Please join us for the fourth speaker in the Research Discussion Series:

Edith A. Parker, DrPH
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Associate Professor for
Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health

“Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Achieve Global Health
Equity”

Faculty will reflect on how equity or inequity plays out in their research,
followed by an open discussion.

The Center for Global Health invites the University community to a series
of trans-disciplinary research discussions about global health.

Please join us for the fifth speaker in the Research Discussion Series:

Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD
Professor, Internal Medicine, Medical School; Director, Breast & Ovarian
Cancer Risk and Evaluation Clinic, University of Michigan Hospital

“Equity in Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis and Care: A Local and Global Challenge”

Faculty will reflect on how equity or inequity plays out in their research,
followed by an open discussion.

Lecture by Michael Boehnke, Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health. Reception following in the Rackham Assembly Hall.

More details to follow early 2010.

The Center for Global Health invites the University community to a series
of trans-disciplinary research discussions about global health.

Please join us for the sixth speaker in the Research Discussion Series:

David Lam, PhD
Professor, Economics, College of Literature, Science, and Arts; Research
Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

“Persistent Inequality and its Implications for the Health of Young People
in South Africa”

The Center for Global Health invites the University community to a series
of trans-disciplinary research discussions about global health.

Please join us for the seventh speaker in the Research Discussion Series:

Joseph C. Kolars, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives;
University of Michigan Medical School

“Education Collaboratives in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Faculty will reflect on how equity or inequity plays out in their research,
followed by an open discussion.

The Center for Global Health invites the University community to a series
of trans-disciplinary research discussions about global health.

Please join us for the 8th speaker in the Research Discussion Series:

David Canter, MD
Director of Healthcare Research,
William Davidson Institute

“How Foreign Aid Makes Health Equity Worse. What to do about it?”

Faculty will reflect on how equity or inequity plays out in their research,
followed by an open discussion.

Please mark your calendars and plan to join us on April 23, 2010 for the "Improving Children's Health Through Community-Engaged Research."

This workshop will feature prominent experts and dynamic breakout sessions to prepare you for conducting team science. The event will focus on developing academic and community partnerships to improve the health of children and youth, through collaborative, community-engaged research.

A reception is planned for the evening of April 22, and the workshop itself will be held on April 23 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The event is sponsored by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) in partnership with Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Washtenaw County Health Department, and City Connect Detroit.

For additional information please contact Molly White, mollycd@umich.edu, 734-998-7474 or Nichole Washington, washingn@umich.edu, 734-998-6797.

Speaker at the 2009 UM SPH graduation will be Dr. Tom Frieden, new director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (More graduation information for graduating students and their families is coming soon.)

BIO: Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., became Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in June 2009.  Previously, he served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since January 2002.  One of the world′s oldest and largest public health agencies, the department has an annual budget of $1.7 billion and more than 6,000 staff.  During his tenure, the number of smokers declined by 350,000, teen smoking decreased by half, and New York City became the first place in the United States to eliminate trans-fats from restaurants, rigorously monitor the diabetes epidemic, and require certain restaurants to post calorie information prominently.  Under Dr. Frieden′s leadership, the department established the largest community electronic health records project in the country.

A physician with training in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology, Dr. Frieden is especially known for his expertise in tuberculosis control. Dr. Frieden worked for CDC from 1990 until 2002.  He began his career at CDC as an Epidemiologic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the New York City Health Department.  In that role, he led a program that rapidly reduced tuberculosis, including reducing cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, by 80 percent.  He then worked in India for five years where he assisted with national tuberculosis control efforts.  The program in India has now treated more than 10 million patients and has saved more than one million lives.