Around the School, October 16, 2009

Professors Goldie and Kawachi Elected to Institute of Medicine

Two members of the HSPH faculty have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on human health issues. Sue Goldie is Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH. Ichiro Kawachi is Chair of the HSPH Department of Society, Human Development, and Health.

They are two of 65 newly elected members and five foreign associates announced by the IOM in a press release on October 12.

Faculty Appointments and Visiting Professorships

HSPH has welcomed several new faculty members and visiting professors during the past few months.

New Appointments
• John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH, and Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, SEAS
• Curtis Huttenhower, Assistant Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Tyler VanderWeele, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
• Winston Hide, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Till Baernighausen, Assistant Professor of Global Health
• Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professor of Global Health
• Liming Liang, Assistant Professor of Statistical Genetics

Visiting Professors
• Salal Humair, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
• Andrew Mason, Visiting Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population  

Lamstein Selected for Social Leadership Award

Joel Lamstein, adjunct lecturer on global health at HSPH, has been selected to receive the CEO Social Leadership Award from the Grand Circle Foundation. Lamstein is CEO of international public health consultancy at John Snow, Inc. He is also a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The award recognizes business leaders who work toward changing communities for the better.

Past winners of the award include Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish and Wainwright Bank Chairman Robert Glassman.