HPH NOWAround the School, January 15, 2010
Dean Frenk to Chair Alliance for Maternal and Child Health
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk has been elected chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), a global alliance of 300 member organizations dedicated to advancing progress toward the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, regarding the reduction of child mortality and the improvement of maternal health.
PMNCH promotes the idea of a “continuum of care” to ensure that women and their children receive healthcare before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth. In particular, the organization focuses on three areas of need: family planning services, skilled postnatal care, and clinical care and treatment for sick children.
Said Dean Frenk in a press release: “Health is a fundamental human right. In countries where children die early and mothers die in the act of giving life, injustice breeds. When we see more than 10 million women and children die of unnecessary causes every year in poor countries, it presents an ethical dilemma for all of us. They are not dying from rare diseases; we have the tools to prevent this. The Partnership can play an important role in forging consensus on ways to act, and in bringing the world's attention to this very important issue.”
Fredberg to Deliver Cannon Lecture
Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at HSPH, has received the Walter B. Cannon lectureship from the American Physiological Society. He will deliver the lecture at the Society’s annual meeting in April. The lectureship recognizes an outstanding physiological scientist as selected by the president–elect. The recipient presents a lecture on “Physiology in Perspective,” addressing Cannon’s concepts of “The Wisdom of the Body.”
Faculty Appointments and Promotions
Brendan D. Manning has been promoted to associate professor of genetics and complex diseases
Jessica Cohen has been appointed assistant professor of global health
Andrew Mason has been appointed visiting professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
Beth Molnar has been promoted to associate professor of society, human development, and health
Russ Hauser has been named Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology
David Christiani has been named Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics
