HSPH Community Forum
"Boston Air Pollution: Where does it come from?
What is it doing to you?"
Thursday, January 18
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Kresge G-2
Douglas Dockery,
Chair,
Department of Environmental Health
Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to deansoff@hsph.harvard.edu.
This event is open to the HSPH community only.
Sponsored by the HSPH Workplace Engagement
and Enrichment Committee & the Office of the Dean
Holiday Dance Celebrated Neighborhood Seniors
More than 100 senior citizens enjoyed an evening of dinner and dancing at the Kresge cafeteria on December 1. This annual holiday event is in its 16th year and is a celebration to honor the senior citizens of Mission Hill for their contributions to the community. Student and staff volunteers from HSPH were on hand to assist the guests, add to dinner conversations, and offer their talents as dance partners. The event was organized by Bruce Smith in Operations.
Cash to Accept Prince Mahidol Award in Thailand
Richard Cash, credited with saving millions of lives by promoting the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat cholera and other diarrheal diseases, will travel this month to Thailand as a co-recipient of the 2006 Prince Mahidol Award for "exemplary contributions in the field of public health." Cash is a senior lecturer in the Department of Population and International Health.
The Prince Mahidol Award Foundation confers two international awards each year-in the fields of medicine and public health. Stanley Schultz of the University of Texas Medical School was recognized in medicine for providing the scientific basis for oral rehydration therapy solution.
In public health, Cash was recognized with David Nalin, formerly of Merck & Co., and Dilip Mahalanabis of the Society for Applied Studies in India for their contributions "to the application of the oral rehydration solution in the treatment of severe diarrhea worldwide, including Thailand."
To read a profile of Cash, take a look at the winter 2007 issue of Harvard Public Health Review.
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