Title: In Honor and Memory of Eric W. Mood, MPH
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Section/SPIG: Environment
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Eric Mood, MPH, was an environmental public health professional who was a member of APHA, NEHA, and CEHA, as well as a faculty member of the Yale University School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (Yale School of Public Health). Yale SPH has established the Eric W. Mood Alumni Award to recognize the career of a promising new professional in public health who graduated from the school within the previous decade from the time of his or her nomination. This will be an annual award. The three main criteria are outstanding leadership, creativity in public health practices, and outstanding service to his or her field of public health and/or to Yale SPH.
For more information or to make a nomination for the second award in 2006, please contact the committee co-chairs, Susan Addiss and Elaine Anderson, MPH, at <dawn.carroll@yale.edu>.
A reprint of the letter the APHA Environment Section Leadership sent in honor of Eric to his family appears below.
February 16, 2005
Suzanne and Gregory Porto
38 Doolittle Drive
Bethany, CT 06524
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Porto,
On behalf of the Section Leadership and general members of the American Public Health Association’s (APHA’s) Environment Section, as the elected Secretary, I wish to express our sincere condolences for your family’s loss. Your father, Eric Mood, was a highly respected environmental public health professional and teacher not only in greater New Haven and the Yale University School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH), but also throughout the country. He will be greatly missed.
On a personal note, I received my MPH in Environmental Health Sciences from Yale University EPH in 1998. Although my primary mentors and thesis advisors were other faculty, I had the privilege of working with Eric and Elaine Anderson for my first year “Community Project Internship” based at the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. My own professional goals are to combine public sector and educational activities during my career, and I viewed Eric as one of the role models in the field.
The APHA Environment Section wishes you the very best for 2005 and into the future.
Sincerely,
Derek G. Shendell, D.Env, MPH