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CONTROL AND PREVENTION: A MODEL PROGRAM IN MOZAMBIQUE NEWS BRIEFS: NATIONAL RECOGNITION SUPPORTING SYSTEMS RESEARCH FROM THE BOOKSHELF |
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Mario Farias, 87MPH, is a physician at South Palm Beach Nephrology and volunteers at the Caridad Clinic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Betsy Wallace, 87MPH, is a health education coordinator at the Gwinnett Hospital System in Georgia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Naila azhar, 92MPH, is working on risk reduction interventions for youth and women in her native Pakistan. “I consider it ironic that I learned more about management of public health issues in my part of the world from Emory than I did during my entire life in Pakistan,” she writes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sherrill Lybrook, 93mph, is a principal at Enable Capital in Tiburon, CA. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elizabeth barnhart, 94MPH, recently moved from Jordan to Lusaka, Zambia, where she is a health migration officer for the International Organization for Migration. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Katherine Sharp, 96MPH, is graduate program coordinator and an instructor at the University of Maryland. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Duperier, MD, 97MPH, after completing training in internal medicine, is doing an anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ronald Mataya, MD, a Hubert R. Humphrey Fellow (1996–1997) is chair of the Global Health Department at Loma Linda University School of Public Health in California. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BORN: to Kristi Busico Metzger and Brian Metzger, both 97MPH, twins Roger and Lucinda Marie, on January 5, 2005. They live in New York City, where Brian is an internal medicine resident at Mount Sinai, and Kristi works at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Altaf Musani, 97MPH, is regional adviser for emergency and humanitarian action in the Eastern Mediterranean regional office of WHO, in Cairo, Egypt. He helped set up WHO’s response to the earthquake in Pakistan last October. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Prol, 97MPH, is an environmental attorney with the firm of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna in Albany, NY. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BORN: to Melissa Mann White, 97MPH, and husband, Chad, a son, Zachary, on April 13, 2005. They also have a four-year-old daughter, Anna. Currently completing an EMS fellowship in emergency medicine at Emory, White is a part-time faculty member in the Emory Department of Emergency Medicine. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sara Sutandi Zywicki, 97MPH, moved from Atlanta to Akron, Ohio, last July to begin a new job with Life Line Screening. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Crippen, Gcp98, is deputy branch chief of Respiratory and Enteric Viruses, division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, and the National Center for Infectious Diseases at CDC. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: Lynda Lackey, 98MPH, and Aaron Wynn, on November 5, 2005, in Atlanta. She is a cancer epidemiologist at CDC. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William W. Terry, 98MPH, is in his first year of medical school at SUNY-Buffalo. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: Meghna Desai, 99MPH, to Bimal Chudasama in 2005. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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EDITOR'S NOTE: As a third-year med student at the University of Iowa, Tomoko Sampson, 00MPH, has no trouble differentiating the sexes. However, apparently we do. Our apologies to Sampson for inadvertently changing her gender in the last edition of class notes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bonya Broadnax Matthews, 00MPH, has two children, Wesley Ann, 2, and Walter, 8 weeks. She is a La Leche group leader. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BORN: To Olivia Chelko Long, 01MPH, and her husband, Adam, a son, Hamilton Grant Long, on July 3, 2005. The family lives in Atlanta. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: Carole Butler Rudra, 01MPH, and Atri Rudra in July 2005 in Seattle. She is now a postdoc at the University of Washington, where she completed her PhD in epidemiology in November. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BORN: Chris Duggar, 02MPH, and wife Mirela, a daughter, Enna Soleil, on March 26, 2005. The family lives in Decatur, GA. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brett Harrison Hicks, 02MPH, a health care administrator with the U.S. Navy, was deployed to Pakistan last November to help with earthquake relief. Previously, he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alison Mondul, 02MPH, is pursuing a PhD in cancer epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marcy Goldstone Opstal, 02MPH, is a program analyst at Constella Group in Virginia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tolton Pace, 02MPH, is assistant dean and director of multicultural recruitment in the undergraduate admissions office at Emory University. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: Sarah Wyckoff, 02MPH, and David T. Mallon, 96C, on October 2, 2004. They live in Atlanta. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: Brittany Holley, 03MSN/MPH, and Wayne Newberry on April 29, 2005, in Ellijay, GA. She is a clinical nurse educator for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Primary Care. They live in Tucker, GA. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anita Kurian, 03MPH, was named outstanding doctoral student of public health in biostatistics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. A native of Kerala, India, she lives in Plano, TX. Upon graduation, she will pursue a career in academia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ebi Awosika, MD, 04MPH, is medical director of the Occupational Health Section at the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis as well as assitant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Awosika has two children: Oludara, age 7, and Oluwatoni, age 4. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: David Bray, 04MPH, and Diane Morrison on April 10, 2005, in Cannon Chapel at Emory. After the wedding service, they planted a tree next to the chapel and the quad. Bray is working on a PhD in information systems at Emory’s Goizueta Business School and has received a national defense science and engineering grant from the Department of Defense. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MARRIED: Laurence Kessler, 04MPH, and Lindsay Burnett on January 15, 2006 in Newport Beach, CA. He is a senior consultant in the health care practice at Navigant Consulting, Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keith Stowell, MD, 04MSPH, is a physician at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ashley Heath, 06MPH, is a behaviorist at MicroMass Communications, Inc., in Cary, NC. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sadi Moussa, 05MPH, one of the first William H. Foege Fellows at the RSPH, was appointed director of Hygiene and Health Education in the Niger Ministry of Health. While a fellow at the RSPH, Moussa hoped to one day be in a position to change the orientation of Niger’s health policy from treatment to prevention, given that the country’s largest health problems such as diarrheal disease and guinea worm are related to the lack of safe water and thus preventable. Previously, Moussa engineered clean water supplies for Niger and helped bring the eradication of guinea worm within sight. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zebedee O. Okoye, 97MPH, of Germantown, MD, on October 5, 2005. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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