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Title: MCH MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

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Section/SPIG: Maternal and Child Health

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  • A special thank you to those who assisted with the APHA Policy Archiving Review:  Lianne Estefan, Cheryl Vamos, Gonzalo Bacigalupe and Jonathan Kotch.

     
  • Honors for New Section Chair:  Incoming MCH Chair JoAnne Fischer is one of the first recipients of the new Alumnae/i Achievement Awards given by the Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work.  In addition, JoAnne has been awarded a scholarship to attend Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management at the Harvard Business School this summer.  The scholarship comes from the Social Enterprise Initiative of the Harvard Business School Club of Philadelphia.  JoAnne has been the executive director of the Maternity Care Coalition since 1989, and has overseen the agency's growth from a neighborhood project to a statewide organization, from a staff of 3 to a staff of 70, and from a budget of $116,000 to more than $4.5 million. 

  • Two new jobs for one busy member:  Section member Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH, has been named the associate director of the new Center for Health Care Innovation and Clinical Trials (CHI&CT) at Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Care Innovation. The mission of the CHI&CT is to set the standard for collaboration, outreach, research, and educational (CORE) activities to support and promote clinical research that advances health care through the creation of evidence-based innovative products, processes, and educational programs. The Center has launched a Graduate Certificate program in Clinical Research Management (CRM), the only fully online, graduate level, inter-disciplinary CRM program in the Western states.  CHI&CT will also launch a 33 credit hour online Master of Science in Clinical Research Management degree program in January 2009.  For more information, visit their Web site.  Kim has also been selected as one of five faculty affiliates in the Arizona State University Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Consortium's new Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research.  Her research focus will be on eliminating disparities in asthma health outcomes among Latino children, particularly Mexican, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican children.  Congratulations to Kim on her new appointments.                

 

  • Small world:  Former Section Chair Jonathan Kotch was visiting the School of Public Health in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday, May 19, where he had gone to seek collaboration on a lead poisoning surveillance project in a rural commune where lead smelting is a home industry.  Between meetings, he briefly ran into Section member Lois McCloskey!  No word on what Lois was doing in Hanoi.  By the way, this was the day after Jonathan’s first grandson was born back home in Durham, N.C. -- best wishes from all, Jonathan!       

 

 

  • Feild Chairs Prevention for AAP:  Section member Dr. Charles Feild, professor of pediatrics and public health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, is the American Academy of Pediatrics, Council on Community Pediatrics, chair of the Prevention and Public Health SIG, and represents the SIG on the Executive Committee of the Council.

  • New Job for Cox:  Section member Suzanne Cox, MPH, has taken a new job as the assistant director of research and development for the Confidential Enquiry Into Maternal and Child Health, the national organization in the United Kingdom that collects data on maternal, perinatal and child deaths.

  • Lights! Camera! Ruth Lubic!:  Section member Ruth Watson Lubic and her Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C., were featured in the cover story in the May 5 edition of Nursing Spectrum.  In addition, an interview the same day with Ruth, new mom Timeka Murphy, and 9-month-old Cole Murphy, is available on YouTube.  The video and a narrative can also be accessed on the Kellogg Foundation Web site.

  • Parenting advice online:  Section member Marilyn Heins has a new Web site, www.ParentKidsRight.com, which provides parenting advice for today’s busy families.  Subscribers receive a free monthly newsletter, and Dr. Heins will also answer individual parenting questions from readers at no charges.  Good parenting is essential to a child's well-being, and parents today need all the help they can get.  Feedback from professionals is always welcome -- contact Marilyn at info@ParentKidsRight.com.

  • New Degree:  Section member Mirine Dye of Islamorada, Fla., received her MPH from Florida International University in Miami, and was inducted into the National Public Health Honorary Society, Delta Omega.  Mirine works as the Florida Keys community liaison with the Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition, and serves on the Florida team for the APHA MCH Leadership Institute 07-08, for which her project is MCH Preparedness.  Congratulations, Mirine!

  • David and Collins Featured in “Unnatural Causes”:  For the past 20 years, Section member Richard David and his colleague, Jimmy Collins, have been researching the causes of infant mortality, and their work was featured in “When the Bough Breaks,” part of the series “Unnatural Causes:  Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” The premise of the series is that social structures -- in particular, different forms of inequality -- are the determining factor in most major illnesses. Social inequality in life, not just in access to medical care, causes health disparities.  The series, produced by highly respected filmmaker California Newsreel, was shown nationwide on PBS stations earlier this spring.