HPH NOW, December 12, 2003, APHA Meeting: HSPH Alumni from across Country Gather at Special Reception


	Dean Barry Bloom and Barry Levy

HSPH Dean Barry Bloom welcomed approximately 250 alumni who gathered at a special reception organized by the Office of Alumni Programs at the APHA meeting in San Francisco on November 17. They came from across the United States and as far afield as Korea.

Dean Bloom provided an overview of the goals and achievements related to the School. He also showed a video clip of Harvard President Lawrence Summers describing the pivotal role that public health and HSPH play in the mission of the University. The clip was taken from President Summers’ speech at the Leadership Council meeting on October 21 in Cambridge.

Barry Levy, MPH ’70, president of the Alumni Council, announced newly elected Council members. Levy is a public health physician and epidemiologist, an adjunct professor of community health at Tufts Medical School and a visiting scientist at HSPH. In 1997, he served as APHA president.


Maxine Hayes, MPH ‘77, (l) and Myron Allukian, MPH ’67

J. Jacques Carter, MPH ’83 is president-elect of the Alumni Council. He is a full-time attending physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. In addition to patient care, his other hospital-related activities include precepting a medical residents clinic, acting as a liaison for community health programs, and serving as a member of the Education and Internship Selection Committees. He has been twice nominated for Harvard’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is chairman of the Brookline Advisory Council of Public Health, past president of the board of trustees of Family Service of Greater Boston, and member of the board of trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is co-founder and former president of the Friends of Public Health in Brookline.

Elected as councilors are Royce Moser, Jr., MPH ’65; Eduardo Sabate, MPH ’98; and Kelechi Ohiri, MPH ’02, SM ’03.

A professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Moser has served as vice chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and director of the department’s Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. He has spent 23 years in the U.S. Air Force directing preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, and aerospace medicine programs.

Sabate is a medical officer at the World Health Organization (WHO). His work is focused on the provision of care for chronic conditions to the poorest communities in developing countries. Upon graduation from medical school in 1992, Sabate began his public health career as a primary health care provider in the poor barrios of Venezuela. Simultaneously, he conducted research in innovative solutions for managing health care services in developing countries.


	Michael Caldwell, MPH ‘94 (l) and Gail Chun-Gannon, MPH ’93

Ohiri completed his medical internship at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and then worked as a medical officer in underserved communities and a health consultant at the WHO office in Nigeria. Before coming to HSPH, Ohiri returned to clinical medicine. At HSPH, he was elected class president 2003 and established the student group Africa Health Forum.

The elected alumni join the following individuals already on the Council: Mark Clanton, MPH ‘90, secretary; Elsbeth Kalenderian, MPH ’89, councilor; Chander Kapasi, MPH ’75, councilor; Patrick Miles, MPH ’01, councilor; J. Michael Taylor, MPH ‘71, councilor; C. William Keck, MPH ‘72, councilor; Rejoy Manjuran, MPH ‘02, councilor; Myron Allukian, Jr., MPH ’67, regional representative; and Chris Spina, SM ’91, regional representative.

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