HPH NOW, January 20, 2006, Around the School

Rosenthal Receives Sloan Foundation Fellowship

Meredith Rosenthal

Meredith Rosenthal, assistant professor of health economics and policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, was one of four young scholars to receive a Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowship provides support and recognition to junior faculty from a wide variety of academic disciplines-economics, management, engineering, political science, and related or interdisciplinary areas. The Fellows were selected from among 37 highly qualified scholars in the early stages of their careers on the basis of their exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge, and to U.S. industrial development and economic competitiveness. Each fellow will receive a grant of $45,000 for a two-year period. Rosenthal will focus on the managed care industry.

Glimcher Honored by American Association of Immunologists

Laurie Glimcher

Laurie Glimcher, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, has received the AAI-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI). The award, established by the AAI in 1999 in partnership with the Huang Foundation, is intended to recognize a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology. The award will be presented at the meeting IMMUNOLOGY 2006 in May in Boston.

Marks to Be Senior Fellow at University Committee on Human Rights Studies

Stephen Marks, who has been directing the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for the past six years, has been asked by the Provost to accept new University-wide responsibilities as Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. In accepting this appointment, Marks will be relinquishing the leadership of the FXB Center. He will continue as a faculty member at HSPH in the Department of Population and International Health, directing the Program on Human Rights in Development, the Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights at Harvard University Press, and the intensive summer course. Marks is currently on a six-month sabbatical in Hong Kong.