1960
Melvin P. Reid, SM, chief executive officer of a consulting pschologist firm for 36 years, has retired. He is the author of 102 Selected Surprise-Ending Adult Short Stories, published by AuthorHouse in 2004.
Dr. Judith S. Stern, SM, SD ’70, is a distinguished professor in the departments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California at Davis. In October 2006, she was a co-recipient of the first Richard L. Atkinson and Judith S. Stern Distinguished Public Service Award created by the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. The award recognizes her extensive public service efforts in the field. Along with Atkinson, Stern co-founded the American Obesity Association (AOA), which she served as vice president. AOA was instrumental in getting obesity recognized as a disease by Medicare, and in helping to increase the National Institutes of Health research budget from $125 million to over $400 million.
1961
Dr. Anthony Adams, MPH, a 2001 recipient of HSPH’s Alumni Award of Merit, recently retired from his position as a professor of public health at the Australian National University. In addition to teaching, Adams served as chief medical officer for the Department of Health in Australia, from 1988-1997, and is now chair of the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication.
1962
Dr. P. William Dysinger, MPH reports that he is still active at 80 years old, involved in lifestyle change programs in his rural middle Tennessee community. For his 80th birthday, he skydived from an airplane at an altitude of 14,500 feet. He published a book entitled Health to the People in September of 2007 with Trafford Publishing. It is a history of public health at Loma Linda University going back to its beginnings in 1905-1906. Its School of Public Health was accredited in 1967. Dr. Dysinger served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and International Health during the School's first 14 years, and was later given the honorary title of Associate Dean Emeritus. He points out that many pioneer officers at LLUSPH were HSPH graduates.
1963
Dr. E. James Lieberman, MPH, has retired from his psychiatry practice, although he continues to teach at George Washington University School of Medicine. He is an active member of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, and Compassion and Choices. In 2006, Lieberman received a “Reviewer of the Year” award from Library Journal, and was named to the editorial board of the American Psychological Association’s online book review.
1964
Mr. Abdur Rashid, SM, Registrar of Chittagong University, Bangladesh, passed away in Chittagong on May 8, 2002. Mr. Rashid earned his MS in Pure Mathematics from Karachi University, Pakistan in 1961, and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Dhaka University, Bangladesh, in 1956. He was a member of the World Population Council, New York, a member of the Institute of Actuaries, London, and member of the Bangladesh National Education Commission. He participated in the International Visitors program in the US, and visited the US as a member of Bangladesh government delegations.
1965
Gro Harlem Brundtland, MPH, was appointed a United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change in May. She previously served as prime minister of Norway, from 1986 to 1989 and 1990 to 1996, and as director-general of the World Health Organization, from 1998 to 2003. Brundtland and her fellow special envoys work closely with national leaders from around the world to assist UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in building momentum for multilateral climate-change negotiations.
William Foege, MPH, received the Stephen Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine. Foege is Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health Emeritus at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, and a Gates Fellow. During his early work in public health in Africa, Foege developed a smallpox containment strategy that he used to lead a successful eradication campaign in the 1970s. He served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) from 1977 to 1983. After leaving the CDC, he co-founded the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, with the goal of universal immunization for children. During his six years as executive director of this organization, the proportion of children around the world who received basic vaccinations rose from 20 percent to almost 80 percent. He worked to eliminate the African parasitic disease river blindness as executive director of the Carter Center, and served as a senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Global Health Program. Foege received the Julius B. Richmond Award, the highest honor bestowed by HSPH, in 2006.
Dr. Royce Moser, Jr., MPH, AB '57, MD '61, is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a leader in occupational and aerospace medicine. In May, he received the President's Citation in recognition of his service to the Aerospace Medical Association, for which he has served in a number of roles, including president, for more than 34 years. Moser is the author of several publications on disaster response and management, with a focus on biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism. His "4 Cs" model—command and control, communication, and coordination—is an integral part of the medical surge plan he wrote for the Utah Department of Health, which is now being disseminated to other states.
Dr. Raymond Murphy, MPH, SD '68, served as chief of Pulmonary Medicine at the Faulkner and Lemuel Shattuck hospitals, in Boston, Mass., and as a faculty member at HSPH for more than 25 years. Today he is the chief medical officer of Stethographics, Inc. The company, which Murphy founded in 1998, develops computer-based, non-invasive acoustic devices to help physicians better diagnose and monitor certain heart and lung conditions. The company also produces interactive multimedia educational CD’s that aid in instruction on heart and lung sounds. One such product on heart sounds he co-authored has been translated into 15 languages and is distributed widely by 3M. Murphy is a professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He also directs the pulmonary section of the Northeastern University Physicians Assistant Program and lectures in Physical diagnosis at Harvard Medical School. He has published a book extolling the benefits of exercise entitled If You Felt Like I Did You’d Start Running. Last year, he competed in the National Senior Games (The Senior Olympics) in 6 swimming events. His wife Margaret is a Nurse Practitioner on the faculty of Boston College. They have been married 48 years and have six children and eleven grandchildren.