Dean's Day 2012
The Center for Public Health Practice is pleased to announce the following awards:
Center for Public Health Practice Award for Translation and Application of Research to Public Health Policy and Practice
Megan Swanson recently received the Center for Public Health Practice Award for Translation and Application of Research to Public Health Policy and Practice. The CPHP Translation Award honors the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) Dean's Day project best demonstrating a contribution to policy making and/or applications for improving practice. Ms. Swanson, a student in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, received the award for her project, "Influenza Antibody Testing in Allegheny County."
Catherine Cartier Ulrich Memorial Award: Public Health in Service to the Underserved
The Catherine Cartier Ulrich Memorial Award was established by the Center for Public Health Practice to honor the memory of Catherine Cartier Ulrich for her work improving the health of underserved populations. Tragically, Catherine and her husband were killed in a car accident on July 3, 2000. The Cartier Ulrich Memorial Award honors one Master's level and one Doctoral level student each year and is open to all Dean's Day projects that show a commitment to public health service to the underserved. In 2012, Ms. Aishwarya Arjunan, Department of Human Genetics, was recognized for her Master's level work, "A Systematic Evaluation of a Newborn Screening Program for Sickle Cell Disease in Gujarat, India" and Doctoral candidate, Mr. Darren Morton, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, was recognized for his work "Increasing the Number of African American Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Participate in Research."
Can the GSPH have greater impact on Public Health Policy & Practice?
The mission of the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) is to provide leadership in health promotion, disease prevention, policy development and elimination of health disparities in populations through research that generates new knowledge to drive effec tive education, practice, and policy. In significant ways, GSPH has and continues to succeed in this by influencing public health policy regionally, nationally and internationally in many different areas of interest.
