Around The School November 7, 2008

Reminder

Thursday, November 13, 2008
HSPH Landmark Community Celebration
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
3rd Floor East Cafeteria

Join your colleagues and friends for good food and fun. All members of the HSPH Landmark community are welcome.

Save the Date

Thursday, November 20, 2008
HSPH  Community Forum
Plastics: From Miracle to Menace
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kresge G2

Speaker: Russ Hauser, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, HSPH
HSPH Sponsor: Office of the Dean

Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to deansoff@hsph.harvard.edu

Fredberg Named Chair of Thoracic Society Assembly

Jeffrey Fredberg, HSPH professor of bioengineering and physiology, has been elected chairman of the Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly, a subdivision of the American Thoracic Society. The Assembly includes more than 2,300 scientists and clinicians. Its activities include programming for the annual international conference, soliciting and evaluating projects for ATS sponsorship, and evaluating trainees and investigators for annual Woolcock and Rodarte awards from the Assembly.

HSPH One of Seven Schools to Receive CDC Funding for Preparedness

HSPH is one of seven schools of public health that have received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the establishment of Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs). The seven schools will conduct research that will evaluate the structure, capabilities, and performance of public health systems for preparedness and emergency response activities.

HSPH has received more than $1.7 million to generate criteria and metrics to measure effectiveness and efficiency of preparedness efforts.

The effort is related to the establishment of Centers of Public Health Preparedness.  Such a center was founded at HSPH in 2002 and is housed within the Division of Public Health Practice.