Twenty-eight HSPH employees have been recognized by their peers for outstanding work as part of the ongoing Great Place to Work (GPTW) Recognition Award effort. First-time honorees will receive a letter of appreciation and a $100 gift certificate to GiftCertificates.com. The program is open to nominations at any time. See below.

Spotlight on Three Winners

Michael Voligny's work is about making the case for public health to an outside audience, whose members have many other demands on their attention. As Director of International Giving, Voligny harnesses the energy of the Office for Resource Development to reach new donors and established friends of the School to seek support for international HSPH efforts. Case in point-he is helping to coordinate a trip this spring that will bring 25 friends of the School to India to learn about public health needs and School projects there. This is the third trip of its kind. Last year, a group visited China and Tibet, leading to the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the Chinese Ministry of Health, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and HSPH to plan a program to train senior Chinese health executives. In 2004, a group visited Botswana, where the HSPH AIDS Initiative is involved in HIV/AIDS programs.

Meredith Venner has worked at the Center for Continuing Professional Education (CCPE) for a little more than a year and has already established a track record as a flexible and dependable employee willing to take on multiple roles. She began with CCPE in a contract position as an Enrollment and Finance Associate. Initially she helped to coordinate the enrollment and registration process of participants in the continuing education seminars, and then transitioned to handling finances and accounting for the Center and its 30 to 40 courses each year. Now, she is a full-time Program Associate, working with program directors to coordinate the faculty who lecture at the seminars, organize logistics and materials, and support the needs of speakers and attendees.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 altered the direction of Gilbert Nick's career path. Prior to then, he worked as a program coordinator for the Harvard AIDS Institute (now the HSPH AIDS Initiative). The attacks occurred, and, one year later, the HSPH Center for Public Health Preparedness was established within the Division of Public Health Practice. Now, Nick is associate director for administration and training there, where he works with faculty and staff to develop education and training programs for the public health workforce. The Center is charged to work specifically with Maine and Massachusetts as an integrating and convening body, uniting public health academics and professionals for productive, practice-based discussions of emerging issues in preparedness.

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