For more information, visit http://www.hms.harvard.edu/coewh/DisabilityConference/index.html. Enrollment is limited.

Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk

Andrew Spielman, professor of tropical public health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, doesn't just teach public health. He practices it every day. He and his assistant Ashley Buchanan hold their daily meetings while walking 14 flights of stairs in Building 1.

Spielman says the practice is an easy way to exercise while taking care of office business.

Andrew Spielman and Ashley Buchanan

Austin Receives Women's Health Fund Seed Grant

S. Bryn Austin, assistant professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, is the principal investigator on one of seven new projects funded through the HMS Fund for Women's Health seed grant program for the 2005-2006 academic year. Awardees underwent a peer-review process led by HMS' Center of Excellence in Women's Health Research Committee. Her project is entitled "Experience of Violence in Childhood Adolescence in Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Women in the Nurses' Health Study II."

Austin is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston. Co-principal investigator is Rosalind Wright, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The HMS Fund for Women's Health supports $30,000 grants to promote collaborative, interinstitutional projects. For more information, visit the web site at http://www.hms.harvard.edu/coewh/hmsfund-past.html.